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 …

Filamentation of ultra-short TW-class lasers recently opened new perspectives in
atmospheric research. Laser filaments are self-sustained light structures of 0.1–1 mm in …

The range of potential applications of compact laser-plasma ion sources motivates the
development of new acceleration schemes to increase achievable ion energies and …

The current state of research on high-intensity laser fields and their interaction with charged
particles is reviewed. Data on petawatt-class laser facilities are presented, and advanced …

Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field
QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and …

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

We study the conditions for coherent radiation of an electron bunch driven by a
counterpropagating strong pulsed electromagnetic plane wave. We derive the spectrum of …

We discuss and numerically test a method for direct and unambiguous measurement of
ultrahigh laser intensities exceeding 10 20 W/cm 2. The method is based on the use of …

We demonstrate in this Letter the generation of carrier-envelope-phase (CEP)-stabilized
laser pulses at 910 nm with simultaneously high-temporal-contrast, broad spectral …

The availability of ever stronger, laser-generated electromagnetic fields underpins
continuing progress in the study and application of nonlinear phenomena in basic physical …