The future is fibre accelerators

✍ Scribed by Mourou, Gerard; Brocklesby, Bill; Tajima, Toshiki; Limpert, Jens

• Book ID: 120071698
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 920 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1749-4885
• DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.75

✦ Synopsis

Could massive arrays of thousands of fibre lasers be the driving force behind next-generation particle accelerators? The International Coherent Amplification Network project believes so and is currently performing a feasibility study.