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 …

Accurate x-ray scattering techniques to measure the physical properties of dense plasmas
have been developed for applications in high energy density physics. This class of …

The observation of energetic protons off the back of the gold and plastic millimeter-sized
targets in the recent Peta-Watt experiments has been the subject of great interest. Details of …

This book focuses on the physics of laser plasma interactions and presents a
complementary and very useful numerical model of plasmas. It describes the linear theory of …

This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the
theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse …

In recent Petawatt laser experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, several
hundred joules of 1 μm laser light in 0.5–5.0-ps pulses with intensities up to 3× 10 20 W cm …

Modern high-power lasers can generate extreme states of matter that are relevant to
astrophysics, equation-of-state studies and fusion energy research,. Laser-driven implosions …

Energy spectra of ions and fast electrons accelerated by a channeling laser pulse in near-
critical plasma are studied using three-dimensional (3D) Particle-In-Cell simulations. The …

The Interaction of High-Power Lasers with Plasmas provides a thorough self-contained
discussion of the physical processes occurring in laser-plasma interactions, including a …

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 …