The ACHIP International collaboration, supported by the Moore Foundation, is undertaking a nearly impossible task of designing, testing and implementing an accelerator on a chip.
The combination of nanometer fabrication from the semiconductor industry with efficient ultrafast lasers allows an accelerator to fit into a shoe box.
To date, the 3rd year of a five year program, the international team of 7 universities, 3 national accelerator laboratories, and industrial partners have successfully accelerated electrons in Dielectric Laser Accelerators (DLA) of fused silica and silicon with acceleration gradients of 850MeV/m. Work is underway to demonstrate focusing, electron beam bunching, and efficient coupling of the laser field to the electrons through inverse design input waveguides and photonic structures.
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