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![Image - From left, SLAC's Erik Hemsing, Zhirong Huang and William Fawley accept awards during the 36th International Free Electron Laser Conference in Basel, Switzerland. At right is SLAC's Paul Emma, who served as this year's FEL Prize committee chairman](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/FEL-PRIZE-2014-Ceremony.jpg?h=4749b905&itok=yKX1J7hW)
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![A PhD student inspects the microwave undulator.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/2014-155-7829-Micro_Undulator.jpg?h=10d202d3&itok=oUaMuOBY)
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![SLAC accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli in the LCLS Undulator Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/2014-098-2224-SACHERER-PRIZE.jpg?h=10d202d3&itok=rssY8T-9)
New technologies, such as "plasma wakefield" accelerators, can boost electrons to very high energies in very short distances. This could lead to linear accelerators that are 100 times more powerful, boosting electrons to a given energy in one hundredth the distance.
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