Tabletop, Ultrahigh-Intensity Lasers: Dawn of Nonlinear Relativistic Optics

D.P. Umstadter, C. Baity, M. Perry, and G.A. Mourou

By driving electrons in the relativistic regime, the table-top terawatt (T3) laser has given nonlinear optics a second wind, with applications in particle beam, nuclear, astrophysics, and nonlinear quantum electrodynamics.

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