The dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields is an essential component of
understanding the most extreme environments in our Universe. In electromagnetic fields of …

The petawatt (PW) laser has experienced a rapid development in the past two decades, and
tens of giant facilities have been constructed worldwide. After realizing 10–100 PW, it seems …

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 a two-arm hybrid high-power laser system (HPLS) able to deliver 2× 10 PW
femtosecond pulses, developed at the Bucharest-Magurele Extreme Light Infrastructure …

Since the invention of chirped pulse amplification, which was recognized by a Nobel Prize in
physics in 2018, there has been a continuing increase in available laser intensity. Combined …

The eXawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies project aimed to create a large scientific
infrastructure based on lasers with giant peak power. The project relies on the significant …

Vacuum birefringence produces a differential phase between orthogonally polarized
components of a weak electromagnetic probe in the presence of a strong electromagnetic …

Optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification implemented using multikilojoule Nd: glass
pump lasers is a promising approach for producing ultra-intense pulses (> 1023 W/cm2). We …

The study of relativistic electron–positron pair plasmas is both of fundamental physics
interest and important to understand the processes that shape the magnetic field dynamics …

The forthcoming generation of multi-petawatt lasers opens the way to abundant pair
production by the nonlinear Breit–Wheeler process, ie the decay of a photon into an electron …