Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., (IPAC2014), p. Germany, 2014
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2014-wexb01
This talk covers recent developments in laser plasma ion acceleration describing the technological challenges in breaking of energy threshold of 70 MeV. The presentation also highlights the recent experimental achievements towards laser ion acceleration and transport in the LIGHT collaboration.