Developments of electron and proton acceleration using Laser-plasma Interaction

With the development in ultra-short, ultra-intense laser technology, the potential of inventing novel table-size charged particle accelerators using laser-plasma interaction has attracted a lot of attentions due to its advantages comparing to classical accelerators. The accelerators have broad application aspects, such as medical imaging, cancer therapy, fast ignition in inertial fusion, and protons with TeV energies are relevant to high-energy physics and astrophysics. In this paper, we introduce some new progresses in the laser-plasma electron and proton accelerations.