laser-plasma accelerator

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laser-plasma accelerator (plural laser-plasma accelerators)

  1. (physics) A kind of plasma accelerator that uses an amplitude-modulated intense laser beam to excite a large-amplitude plasma wave that propagates at near the speed of light with a longitudinal acceleration electric field.

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