Laser guiding for GeV laser-plasma accelerators

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1840, 2006, Pages 585-600

  Leemans, Wim ^a,b   Esarey, Eric ^a,b   Geddes, Cameron ^a   Schroeder, Carl ^a   Tóth, Csaba ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerator; Guiding; Laser; Plasma; Wakefield

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645281463     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1724     Document Type: Article

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