High‐power laser sources are widely used in industrial precision processing and act as a
new platform for strong‐field physics research using peak power over petawatt. This review …

This report presents the conceptual design of a new European research infrastructure
EuPRAXIA. The concept has been established over the last four years in a unique …

In the 2015 review paper 'Petawatt Class Lasers Worldwide'a comprehensive overview of
the current status of high-power facilities of was presented. This was largely based on facility …

We report on first commissioning results of the DRACO Petawatt ultra-short pulse laser
system implemented at the ELBE center for high power radiation sources of Helmholtz …

Ultrashort pulsed lasers provide uniquely detailed access to the ultrafast dynamics of
physical, chemical, and biological systems, but only a handful of wavelengths are directly …

Yb: CaF2 transparent ceramics represent a promising laser gain medium for ultra-short
lasers due to their characteristics: low phonon energy, relatively high thermal conductivity …

We report on experimental results on laser-driven proton acceleration using high-intensity
laser pulses. We present power law scalings of the maximum proton energy with laser pulse …

This study develops a Yb: KGW dual-crystal based regenerative amplifier. The thermal
lensing and gain-narrowing effects are compensated by the dual-crystal configuration. Sub …

The neodymium cluster evolution in fluorite crystals has been unknown for nearly 60 years,
which hindered further exploration of rare-earth-doped fluorite materials. In this work, the first …

Understanding the solid target dynamics resulting from the interaction with an ultrashort
laser pulse is a challenging fundamental multi-physics problem involving atomic and solid …