Laser-plasma accelerator: Status and perspectives

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

Volumn 364, Issue 1840, 2006, Pages 601-610

  Malka, V ^a   Faure, J ^a   Glinec, Y ^a   Lifschitz, A F ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

Laser plasma accelerator; Monoenergetic electron beam; Particle beam

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645352482     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1725     Document Type: Article

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