For many years, laser-driven ion acceleration, mainly proton acceleration, has been
proposed and a number of proof-of-principle experiments have been carried out with lasers …

The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

Laser processing with ultra-short double pulses has gained attraction since the beginning of
the 2000s. In the last decade, pulse bursts consisting of multiple pulses with a delay of …

Highly Efficient Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime Page 1 Highly Efficient
Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime T. Esirkepov,1,* M. Borghesi,2 SV …

As a form of matter intermediate between molecules and bulk solids, atomic clusters have
been much studied. Light-induced processes in clusters can lead to photo-fragmentation …

Laser excitation of nanometer-sized atomic and molecular clusters offers various
opportunities to explore and control ultrafast many-particle dynamics. Whereas weak laser …

Efficient conversion of electromagnetic energy to particle energy is of fundamental
importance in many areas of physics. A promising avenue for producing matter with …

This review is focused on free-electron lasers (FELs) in the hard to soft x-ray regime. The
aim is to provide newcomers to the area with insights into: the basic physics of FELs, the …

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 …

This review provides a comprehensive overview of the applications of helium nanodroplets
in the study of ensembles of atoms and molecules, ie clusters and complexes. These …