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Dear Michael, thank you for the clarification. Your reply also helped me to understand the term rms focal spot size (radius) mentioned in the paper above. I will edit/expand my original post so as not to confuse potential readers. Thanks again! I am looking forward to future versions of elegant. Fab...

Dear all, according to the elegant manual, the laser waist for the LSRMDLTR element should be specified as w_0 = sqrt(2)*sigma_xy. However, the referred paper in the manual (https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~achao/LaserAccelerationFocussed.pdf), analytical calculations, but also a look in the code indi...