Recent advances in laser technology have pushed the frontier of maximum intensity
achieved to about 1022W/cm2 and investigators currently believe even higher intensities …

The evolution of large atomic clusters exposed to a super-intense ultrashort laser pulse is
considered. Cluster excitation results from the interaction of its electron subsystem with the …

Femtosecond laser pulses have proven to provide valuable insight into the dynamics of
microscopic systems by using pump–probe techniques. Applied to atomic clusters even a …

Fusion fast ignition (FI) initiated by a laser-driven particle beam promises a path to high-yield
and high-gain for inertial fusion energy. FI can readily leverage the proven capability of …

Atomic clusters are aggregates of atoms containing a few to several thousand atoms. Due to
the small size of these pieces of matter, the properties of atomic clusters in general are …

Following the interaction of superintense, short pulse lasers and plasmas, ions can be
accelerated to velocities sufficient to drive nuclear fusion reactions, in particular, by the …

The field of nanoscience was pioneered in the 1980s with the groundbreaking research on
clusters, which later led to the discovery of fullerenes. Handbook of Nanophysics: Clusters …

Exploiting the energetic interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with deuterium
clusters, it is possible to create conditions in which nuclear fusion results from explosions of …

We predict that Coulomb explosion of a nanoscale cluster, which is ionized by high-intensity
laser radiation and has a naturally occurring spatial density profile, will invariably produce …

We propose a new mechanism for the production of high-energy (E> 3 keV) deuterons,
suitable to induce dd nuclear fusion, based on multielectron ionization and Coulomb …