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Zettawatt-exawatt lasers and their applications in ultrastrong-field physics
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Since its birth, the laser has been extraordinarily effective in the study and applications of laser-matter interaction at the atomic and molecular level and in the nonlinear optics of the bound electron. In its early life, the laser was associated with the physics of electron volts and of the chemical bond. Over the past fifteen years, however, we have seen a surge in our ability to produce high intensities, 5 to 6 orders of magnitude higher than was possible before. At these intensities, particles, electrons, and protons acquire kinetic energy in the megaelectron-volt range through interaction with intense laser fields. This opens a new age for the laser, the age of nonlinear relativistic optics coupling even with nuclear physics. We suggest a path to reach an extremely high-intensity level ${10}^{26--28}\mathrm{W}/{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$ in the coming decade, much beyond the current and near future intensity regime ${10}^{23}\mathrm{W}/{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$, taking advantage of the megajoule laser facilities. Such a laser at extreme high intensity could accelerate particles to frontiers of high energy, teraelectron volt, and petaelectron volt, and would become a tool of fundamental physics encompassing particle physics, gravitational physics, nonlinear field theory, ultrahigh-pressure physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. We focus our attention on high-energy applications, in particular, and the possibility of merged reinforcement of high-energy physics and ultraintense laser.
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- Authors
- Tajima, T., & Mourou, G.
- Venue
- Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2002-03-07
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 1098-4402 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2596555900
- Cited by
- 264
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 7.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
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