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A laser plasma soliton fusion scheme
Pisin Chen, Yung-Kun Liu, Gerard Mourou
We introduce a novel and generic fusion scheme enabled by laser-plasma solitons, which promises to overcome several fundamental obstructions to reaching the breakeven condition. To…
Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes
Xiaomei Zhang, Toshiki Tajima, Deano Farinella +7
Though wakefield acceleration in crystal channels has been previously proposed, x-ray wakefield acceleration has only recently become a realistic possibility since the invention of…
Picosecond-petawatt laser-block ignition of avalanche boron fusion by ultrahigh acceleration and ultrahigh magnetic fields
H. Hora, P. Lalousis, L. Giuffrida +7
Fusion energy from reacting hydrogen (protons) with the boron isotope 11 (HB11) resulting in three stable helium nuclei, is without problem of nuclear radiation in contrast to DT f…
Probing nonperturbative QED with optimally focused laser pulses
A. Gonoskov, I. Gonoskov, C. Harvey +5
We study nonperturbative pair production in intense, focused laser fields called e-dipole pulses. We address the conditions required, such as the quality of the vacuum, for reachin…
Exawatt-Zettawatt Pulse Generation and Applications
G. A. Mourou, N. J. Fisch, V. M. Malkin +4
A new amplification method, weaving the three basic compression techniques, Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA), Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) and Plasma Com…
Limitations on the attainable intensity of high power lasers
A. M. Fedotov, N. B. Narozhny, G. Mourou +1
It is shown that even a single pair created by a super strong laser field in vacuum would cause development of an avalanche-like QED cascade which rapidly depletes the inc…