Review of Laser Wakefield Accelerators
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This review article highlights the recent evolution of research on laser wakefield accelerators, which has, in record time, led to the production of high quality electron beams beyond the GeV level, using compact laser systems. As shown here, the most significant breakthroughs allow to produce stable, high peak current and high quality electron beams, with a fine control of the charge, of the relative energy spread and of the electron energy. The path that has been followed to explore different injection scenarii (bubble/blow-out, colliding laser pulses, injection in gradient, longitudinal and ionization injection) is presented here.
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