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Thoughts on the First ICUIL Meeting - Professor Ken Ledingham

First of all let me say I enjoyed meeting you all again on Friday/Saturday and I still feel a sense of excitement with the potential for this field. ...
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1st Asian workshop on Generation and Application of High-Order Harmonics

The 1st Asian workshop on Generation and Application of High-Order Harmonics was held during Feb. 23-25, 2005 at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. The workshop...
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A new milestone in laser plasma accelerator reached by three groups : en route to GeV energies!

Three groups, one in the US at Berkeley, lead by W. Leemans1, one in England, lead by K. Krushelnick2 and one in France, lead by V. Malka3, have...
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Terawatt to Petawatt Subpicosecond Lasers - Michael D. Perry and Gerard Mourou

(This article has been published in "Science" in May 1994)
Introduction
The application of the chriped - pulse amplification technique to...
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Extreme Light - By Gerard A. Mourou and Donald Umstadter

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A method of laser amplification in the mid-1980s has enabled a new generation
of tabletop lasers that produce very brief...
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Ultrahigh-Intensity Lasers: Physics of the extreme on a tabletop - Gerard A. Mourou, Christopher P.J.Barty and Michael D.Perry

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By stretching, amplifying and then compressing laser pulses, one can reach petawatt powers, gigagauss magnetic fields, terabar light...
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Radiological Protection in Intense Laser Labs- By Rob Clarke

The attached presentation touches on the ongoing research at the Rutherford Appletown Laboratory (RAL) on radiological protection.
The contents of...
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