Physicists demonstrate acceleration of electrons by laser in vacuum
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 05:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Accelerating a free electron with a laser has been a longtime goal of solid-state physicists. David Cline, a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Xiaoping Ding, an assistant researcher at UCLA, have conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and have established that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space.