The advent of chirped-pulse amplification in the 1980s and femtosecond Ti: sapphire lasers
in the 1990s enabled transformative advances in intense laser–matter interaction physics …

I discuss some key opportunities and challenges of a PWFA collider, and outline some
objectives which I consider important to be able to assess the machine performance …

We report generation of 5 TW peak power in a 2 ps pulse at 9.2 µm via chirped-pulse
amplification (CPA) in mixed-isotope high-pressure CO_2 laser amplifiers. This represents …

An important guide to the major techniques for generating coherent light in the mid-infrared
region of the spectrum Laser-based Mid-infrared Sources and Applications gives a …

Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) driven by widely available 100s TW-class near-
infrared laser systems have been shown to produce GeV-level electron beams with 10s …

Terahertz pulse generation by ultraintense two-color laser fields ionizing gases with near-to
far-infrared carrier wavelength is studied from particle-in-cell simulations. For a long pump …

We present an approach for both efficient generation and amplification of 4–12 μ m pulses
by tailoring the phase matching of the nonlinear crystal Zinc Germanium Phosphide (ZGP) in …

It is found that nonlinear interaction of plasma wakefields driven by counterpropagating laser
or particle beams can efficiently generate high-power electromagnetic radiation at the …

Laser-driven plasma accelerators provide tabletop sources of relativistic electron bunches
and femtosecond x-ray pulses, but usually require petawatt-class solid-state-laser pulses of …

We study and describe the reshaping of ultrashort and broadband mid-IR optical pulses in
an ambient atmosphere. While all pulse propagation undergoes dispersion and absorption …