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Glass-guiding benefits

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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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Figure 1: Laser pulses can be guided over distances greater than their diffraction limit.

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  1. Donald P. Umstadter is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA,

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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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