Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

The field of laser-matter interaction traditionally deals with the response of atoms, molecules,
and plasmas to an external light wave. However, the recent sustained technological …

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

Elastic light-by-light scattering (γ γ→ γ γ) is open to study at the Large Hadron Collider
thanks to the large quasireal photon fluxes available in electromagnetic interactions of …

When exposed to intense electromagnetic fields, the quantum vacuum is expected to exhibit
properties of a polarizable medium akin to a weakly nonlinear dielectric material. Various …

We propose a new method of compressing laser pulses to ultrahigh powers based on
spatially varying dispersion of an inhomogeneous plasma. Here, compression is achieved …

In this report we show that a vacuum is a nonlinear optical medium and discuss what the
optical phenomena are that should exist in the framework of the standard model of particle …

Vacuum birefringence is governed by the amplitude for a photon to flip helicity or
polarization state in an external field. Here, we calculate the flip and nonflip amplitudes in …

ELI-NP facility will enable for the first time the use of two 10 PW laser beams for quantum
electrodynamics (QED) experiments. The first beam will accelerate electrons to relativistic …

Light and Video Microscopy, Third Edition provides a step-by-step journey through
philosophy, psychology and the geometrical and physical optics involved in interpreting …