Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

Highly Efficient Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime Page 1 Highly Efficient
Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime T. Esirkepov,1,* M. Borghesi,2 SV …

A collimated beam of fast protons, with energies as high as 1.5 MeV and total number of≳ 10
9, confined in a cone angle of 40±10 is observed when a high-intensity high-contrast …

Ultracold neutral plasmas formed by photoionizing laser-cooled atoms near the ionization
threshold have electron temperatures in the 1–1000K range and ion temperatures from tens …

By focusing petawatt peak power laser light to intensities up to 10 21 W cm− 2, highly
relativistic plasmas can now be studied. The force exerted by light pulses with this extreme …

As tabletop lasers continue to reach record levels of peak power, the interaction of light with
matter has crossed a new threshold, in which plasma electrons at the laser focus oscillate at …

We have observed deuterons accelerated to energies of about 2 MeV in the interaction of
relativistically intense 10 TW, 400 fs laser pulse with a thin layer of deuterated polystyrene …

An approach for accelerating ions, with the use of a cluster-gas target and an ultrashort
pulse laser of 150-mJ energy and 40-fs duration, is presented. Ions with energy 10–20 MeV …

This review is concerned with the results of studies into the behavior of substances at
ultimately high pressures and temperatures obtainable by way of kinetic or electromagnetic …