•Journal•ISSN: 2052-3289
High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Cambridge University Press
About: High Power Laser Science and Engineering is an academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Laser & Materials science. It has an ISSN identifier of 2052-3289. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 514 publications have been published receiving 6492 citations. The journal is also known as: HPLaser & HP laser.
Topics: Laser, Materials science, Fiber laser, Optics, Amplifier
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory1, University of Rochester2, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory3, École Polytechnique4, Ohio State University5, University of Michigan6, University of Jena7, Russian Academy of Sciences8, Osaka University9, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic10, Chinese Academy of Sciences11, Shanghai Jiao Tong University12, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology13, Colorado State University14, University of Szeged15
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive update of the current status of ultra-high-power lasers and demonstrate how the technology has developed, and what technologies are to be deployed to get to these new regimes, and some critical issues facing their development.
Abstract: In the 2015 review paper 'Petawatt Class Lasers Worldwide' a comprehensive overview of the current status of highpower facilities of >200 TW was presented. This was largely based on facility specifications, with some description of their uses, for instance in fundamental ultra-high-intensity interactions, secondary source generation, and inertial confinement fusion (ICF). With the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to Professors Donna Strickland and Gerard Mourou for the development of the technique of chirped pulse amplification (CPA), which made these lasers possible, we celebrate by providing a comprehensive update of the current status of ultra-high-power lasers and demonstrate how the technology has developed. We are now in the era of multi-petawatt facilities coming online, with 100 PW lasers being proposed and even under construction. In addition to this there is a pull towards development of industrial and multidisciplinary applications, which demands much higher repetition rates, delivering high-average powers with higher efficiencies and the use of alternative wavelengths: mid-IR facilities. So apart from a comprehensive update of the current global status, we want to look at what technologies are to be deployed to get to these new regimes, and some of the critical issues facing their development.
559 citations
TL;DR: 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 as mentioned in this paper, which has been constructed for specific research activities, including particle acceleration, inertial confinement fusion and radiation therapy.
Abstract: 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 class lasers have been constructed for specific research activities, including particle acceleration, inertial confinement fusion and radiation therapy, and for secondary source generation (x-rays, electrons, protons, neutrons and ions). They are also now routinely coupled, and synchronized, to other large scale facilities including megajoule scale lasers, ion and electron accelerators, x-ray sources and z-pinches. The authors of this paper have tried to compile a comprehensive overview of the current status of petawatt class lasers worldwide. The definition of ‘petawatt class’ in this context is a laser that delivers .
464 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the Apollon 10-PW project is described and a brief update on the current status of the project is presented, followed by a more detailed presentation of our experimental and theoretical investigations of the temporal characteristics of the laser.
Abstract: The objective of the Apollon 10 PW project is the generation of 10 PW peak power pulses of 15 fs at $1~\text{shot}~\text{min}^{-1}$
. In this paper a brief update on the current status of the Apollon project is presented, followed by a more detailed presentation of our experimental and theoretical investigations of the temporal characteristics of the laser. More specifically the design considerations as well as the technological and physical limitations to achieve the intended pulse duration and contrast are discussed.
181 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the Apollon project is presented, with the objective of generating 10 PW peak power pulses of 15 fs at 1 shot/minute, and the technological challenges and the current progress of the project are discussed.
Abstract: The objective of the Apollon project is the generation of 10 PW peak power pulses of 15 fs at 1 shot/minute. In this paper the Apollon facility design, the technological challenges and the current progress of the project will be presented.
136 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of experimental signatures that have been suggested to confirm the prediction of quantum electrodynamics of real photon-photon scattering. But they do not provide a detailed analysis of these signatures.
Abstract: When exposed to intense electromagnetic fields, the quantum vacuum is expected to exhibit properties of a polarizable medium akin to a weakly nonlinear dielectric material. Various schemes have been proposed to measure such vacuum polarization effects using a combination of high- power lasers. Motivated by several planned experiments, we provide an overview of experimental signatures that have been suggested to confirm this prediction of quantum electrodynamics of real photon–photon scattering.
130 citations