Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide
Atomic Weapons Establishment · University of Oxford · +31 more institutions
Abstract
In the 2015 review paper ‘Petawatt Class Lasers Worldwide’ a comprehensive overview of the current status of high-power facilities of ${>}200~\text{TW}$ 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…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 190.34
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 300
Authors
33- CDC. DansonCorresponding
Atomic Weapons Establishment, University of Oxford, Imperial College London
- CHC. Haefner
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, RWTH Aachen University
- JBJ. Bromage
University of Rochester
- TBThomas Butcher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- JCJean-Christophe Chanteloup
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, École Polytechnique, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses
Topics & keywords
- Laser
- Chirped pulse amplification
- Computer science
- Engineering physics
- Power (physics)
- Telecommunications
- Inertial confinement fusion
- Optics
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure