Gerard Mourou

TL;DR: Electron acceleration and the appearance of high-frequency modulations in the transmitted light spectrum were both found to have sharp thresholds in laser power and plasma density.

TL;DR: The International Coherent Amplification Network (ICN) project as discussed by the authors has proposed massive arrays of thousands of fiber-laser arrays to drive next-generation particle accelerators, which is currently performing a feasibility study.

TL;DR: An electrostatically deformable, gold-coated, silicon nitride membrane mirror was used as a phase modulator to compress pulses from 92 to 15 fs to test the range of the deformable-mirror-based compressor.

TL;DR: It is shown that even a single e- e+ pair created by a superstrong laser field in vacuum would cause development of an avalanchelike QED cascade which rapidly depletes the incoming laser pulse.

TL;DR: It is found that the remarkably sharp threshold for laser-induced material damage enables the structure or properties of materials to be modified with nanometer precision and predicted that the minimum feature size ultimately depends on the valence electron density, which is sufficiently high and uniform to confer deterministic behavior on the damage threshold even at the nanoscale.