Laser accelerator developments for future high-energy accelerators

Laser-driven accelerators will be realized as the next generation particle accelerators in the near future. Their development has been accelerated by success of high-energy gain electron acceleration by means of a laser wakefield excited via interaction of intense ultrashort laser pulses with underdense plasmas. On the basis of achievements of laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) experiments, a design of LWFA for the second-generation study is considered from the point of view of application to high-energy accelerators, such as future linear colliders. (orig.)