Phase stable net acceleration of electrons from a two-stage optical accelerator
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Christopher M. S. Sears,* Eric Colby, R. J. England, Rasmus Ischebeck, Christopher McGuinness, Janice Nelson, Robert Noble, Robert H. Siemann, James Spencer, Dieter Walz, Tomas Plettner, and Robert L. Byer Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA (Received 4 September 2008; published 21 October 2008)
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