NewsTop-illuminated structures for dielectric laser acceleration published in Optics Express
In dielectric laser acceleration, nanostructures etched into silicon are used to convert free-space ultrashort laser pulses to accelerate particles. This current approach, namely, illuminating the structure with a laser directed nearly horizontally to the substrate, is experimentally challenging and, as it turns out, not quite necessary for most experiments and practical applications. In this work […]In dielectric laser acceleration, nanostructures etched into silicon are used to convert free-space ultrashort laser pulses to accelerate particles. This current approach, namely, illuminating the structure with a laser directed nearly horizontally to the substrate, is experimentally challenging and, as it turns out, not quite necessary for most experiments and practical applications. In this work […]
