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 …

For many years, laser-driven ion acceleration, mainly proton acceleration, has been
proposed and a number of proof-of-principle experiments have been carried out with lasers …

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 …

The past few years have seen remarkable progress in the development of laser-based
particle accelerators. The ability to produce ultrabright beams of multi-megaelectronvolt …

Particle acceleration based on high intensity laser systems (a process known as laser–
plasma acceleration) has achieved high quality particle beams that compare favourably with …

A new regime is described for radiation pressure acceleration of a thin foil by an intense
laser beam of above 10 20 W cm− 2. Highly monoenergetic proton beams extending to giga …

Acceleration of particles by intense laser–plasma interactions represents a rapidly evolving
field of interest, as highlighted by the recent demonstration,,, of laser-driven relativistic …

The acceleration of high-energy ion beams (up to several tens of mega-electron-volts per
nucleon) following the interaction of short (t< 1 ps) and intense (I λ 2> 1018 W˙ cm-2˙ μm-2) …

Recent advances in laser technology have pushed the frontier of maximum intensity
achieved to about 1022W/cm2 and investigators currently believe even higher intensities …

The Review covers recent progress in laser-matter interaction at intensities above 10 18 W
cm− 2. At these intensities electrons swing in the laser pulse with relativistic energies. The …