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Nature Photonics 2, 526 - 527 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.167

Laser wakefields: Bringing accelerators down to size

Toshiki Tajima1

  1. Toshiki Tajima is at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan.
    e-mail: tajima.toshiki@jaea.go.jp


Laser-based accelerator technology has been given a boost thanks to researchers based in Korea, Japan and the USA. Their latest research could lead the way towards compact accelerators that can deliver brilliant electron and X-ray beams.

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