Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

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 use of ultra-high intensity laser beams to achieve extreme material states in the
laboratory has become almost routine with the development of the petawatt laser. Petawatt …

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 …

An intense collimated beam of high-energy protons is emitted normal to the rear surface of
thin solid targets irradiated at 1 PW power and peak intensity 3× 10 20 W cm− 2. Up to 48 J …

Accurate x-ray scattering techniques to measure the physical properties of dense plasmas
have been developed for applications in high energy density physics. This class of …

This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the
theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse …

A collimated beam of fast protons, with energies as high as 1.5 MeV and total number of≳ 10
9, confined in a cone angle of 40±10 is observed when a high-intensity high-contrast …

Heavy ions with energies up to 430±40 MeV have been measured from laser-solid
interactions at focused intensities of up to 5× 10 19 W/cm 2. Observations of proton emission …

MeV-proton production from solid targets irradiated by 100-fs laser pulses at intensities
above 1× 10 20 W cm− 2 has been studied as a function of initial target thickness. For foils …