Abstract

It has been proposed in recent years that laser-powered photonic microstructures made of dielectrics and semiconductors can be used as guiding or confining mechanisms for electromagnetic modes to efficiently accelerate charged particles. Due to the high damage fluences of key materials at optical wavelengths, the accelerating fields can be of orders of magnitude larger than conventional accelerators. We review the history of this concept from seminal work to recent encouraging demonstration experiments.

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