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 …

Direct generation of chirp-free solitons without external compression in normal-dispersion
fiber lasers is a long-term challenge in ultrafast optics. We demonstrate near-chirp-free …

Strong-field effects in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas and high intensity laser and
cavity systems are considered, related to quantum electrodynamical (QED) photon-photon …

We investigate the influence of the laser prepulse due to amplified spontaneous emission on
the acceleration of protons in thin-foil experiments. We show that changing the prepulse …

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) …

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 …

Collimated jets of carbon and fluorine ions up to 5 M e V/nucleon (<? format?>∼<? format?>
100 M e V) are observed from the rear surface of thin foils irradiated with laser intensities of …

A study of the properties of multi-MeV proton emission from thin foils following ultraintense
laser irradiation has been carried out. It has been shown that the protons are emitted, in a …