ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Resting on our demonstration of laser-driven nanophotonics-based particle acceleration, we propose to build a miniature particle accelerator on a photonic chip, comprising high gradient acceleration and fully optical field-based electron control. The resulting electron beam has outstanding space-time properties: It is bunched on sub-femtosecond timescales, is nanometres wide and coherent. We aim at utilizing this new form of all-optical free electron control in a broad research program with five exciting objectives: (1) Build a 5 MeV accelerator on a photonic chip in a shoebox-sized vessel, (2) Perform ultrafast diffraction with attosecond and even zeptosecond electron pulses, (3) Generate…
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