Attoscience is the emerging field that accesses the fastest electronic processes occurring at
the atomic and molecular length scales with attosecond (1 as= 1 0− 18 s) time resolution …

The field of the uncharted territory of high-intensity laser interaction with matter is confronted
with new exotic phenomena and, consequently, opens new research perspectives. The …

Ultraintense laser pulses with a few-cycle rising edge are ideally suited to accelerating ions
from ultrathin foils, and achieving such pulses in practice represents a formidable challenge …

Tracking primary radiation-induced processes in matter requires ultrafast sources and high
precision timing. While compact laser-driven ion accelerators are seeding the development …

Giant half-cycle attosecond pulse generation in the coherent bremsstrahlung emission
regime is proposed for laser pulses with normal incidence on a double-foil target, where the …

The quantum vacuum plays a central role in physics. Quantum electrodynamics (QED)
predicts that the properties of the fermionic quantum vacuum can be probed by extremely …

The collective response of charged particles to intense fields is intrinsic to plasma
accelerators and radiation sources, relativistic optics and many astrophysical phenomena …

A substantial increase in local laser intensity is observed in the near field behind a plasma
shutter. This increase is caused by the interference of the diffracted light at the relativistic …

Following the advent of petawatt (PW)-class lasers already capable of achieving light
intensities of 10 23 W/cm 2, high-field science now aims at solving a major challenge of …

QED cascades play an important role in extreme astrophysical environments like magnetars.
They can also be produced by passing a relativistic electron beam through an intense laser …