Design, fabrication, and testing of a fused-silica dual-layer grating structure for direct laser acceleration of electrons

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1507, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-177

  Peralta, E A ^a,b   Colby, E ^b   England, R J ^b   McGuinness, C ^a,b   Montazeri, B ^a,b   Soong, K ^a,b   Wu, Z ^b   Byer, R L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric; Direct Laser Acceleration; Grating Structure; Lithography; Nanofabrication; NLCTA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874526117     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4773690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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