Progress in Laser Accelerator and Future Prospects

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: acceleration; AnaBHEL (Analog Black Hole Evaporation via Lasers); beam quality optimization; beamline; beat wave; brachytherapy; cancer; coherent beam combination; compact particle acceleration; electron; endoscopic radiotherapy; few-cycle laser; fiber laser; fiber optics; FLASH-radiotherapy; group velocity; Hawking radiation; high energy; high power lasers; high quality; high-field science; high-repetition laser; information loss paradox; inhomogeneous plasma; instability; intense laser; ion acceleration; ion irradiation; laser; laser plasma; laser plasma acceleration; laser wake wave; laser wakefield; laser wakefield acceleration; laser wakefield accelerator; laser-driven; low divergence; LWFA; Mathematics and Science; medicine; monoenergetic; n/a; near critical density plasma; near-critical acceleration; Optical physics; particle-in-cell; phase velocity; photoneutron; Physics; PIC simulation; plasma; plasma lens; plasma shutter; plasma wakefield acceleration; ponderomotive force; pulse compression; PWFA; QED critical field; radiation sources; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; relativistic flying mirror; Research and information: general; six-dimensional phase-space brightness; steep front; ultrafast nonlinear optics; ultrashort lasers; vacuum laser acceleration; wakefield
• ISBN: 3036574727; 3036574735; 9783036574738; 9783036574721
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-7473-8

The Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) has advanced the accelerating gradient many orders of magnitude over the conventional technologies. Their application to high energy accelerators has been considered, while a new field of micrometric accelerators appears for medical applications.