The DETEM team has managed to spatially overlap a fiber-coupled nanosecond laser beam (3 ns, 532 nm), focused to a spot of ~5 um, with the electron beam inside our environmental TEM at the MRL. This is an important milestone - first experiments are in reach! Congrats to the whole team! Image: Seemingly unimpressive TEM image of a carbon grid showing a damage spot caused by a single laser pulse.