A main attraction of laser-driven electron accelerators is their absence of cavity walls, which can break down in the presence of intense electric fields. Now it seems that the inclusion of a hollow glass fibre cavity could lead to more efficient acceleration at lower laser intensities.
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Umstadter, D. Glass-guiding benefits. Nature Photon 5, 576–577 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.235
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