Vacuum laser-driven acceleration by Airy beams

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7300-7306

  Li, Jian Xing ^a   Zang, Wei Ping ^a   Tian, Jian Guo ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ACCELERATION; ENERGY GAIN; FINAL ENERGY; IN-VACUUM; INJECTED ELECTRONS; INJECTION ENERGY; PROPAGATION AXIS;

VACUUM;

EID: 77950278918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007300     Document Type: Article

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