Zettawatt-exawatt lasers and their applications in ultrastrong-field physics

Since its birth, the laser has been extraordinarily effective in the study and applications of laser-matter interaction at the atomic and molecular level and in the nonlinear optics of the bound electron. In its early life, the laser was associated with the physics of electron volts and of the chemi...

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Main Authors: T. Tajima, G. Mourou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2002-03-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.5.031301