LOASIS has produced well-formed electron beams with energies up to a billion electron volts in laser plasma accelerators just 3.3 centimeters long. A typical laser set-up is shown above, with the ...

This is the laser set-up used to to make the actual measurements reported in the paper. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...