Table-top laser-driven plasma accelerators have the potential advantages of being ultracompact and powerful. Electron beams can be created by irradiating gas jets with intense laser light, however, until now it has proved difficult to achieve stable, high-energy beams. Jongmin Lee and colleagues report the first generation of stable gigaelectronvolt-class electron beams using a laser-based accelerator, and make an important step along the road to future particle accelerators.
- Nasr A. M. Hafz
- Tae Moon Jeong
- Jongmin Lee
