Abstract
Summary: It is widely believed that the future of particle accelerator technology relies upon the development of accelerator schemes based on the use of powerful laser pulses. We describe here a linear accelerator driven by a TM01 diffraction-limited laser beam propagating in free space. Under extreme conditions the energy gain experienced by the accelerated electrons can be well in the multi-GeV range.
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