  The proposed linear accelerator ("scanator") consists of a terawatt table-top
laser and a set of passive elements - beam splitters, dispersion elements for
stretching of the laser pulse and chirping of the splitted beams, and
dispersion elements for angle scanning of crossed frequency-modulated laser
beams. Ions are trapped and accelerated in RF wells by the electron component
of plasmoids in the intersection zone of the scanning laser beams.
Computational studies give encouraging results. A proof-of-principle experiment
on the base of a table-top laser is outlined.
