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Experimental Study of Petawatt Laser Produced Plasmas

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Atoms, Solids, and Plasmas in Super-Intense Laser Fields

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The operation of the first 1 petawatt (PW) laser at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1996 provided a laser power which has not yet been equaled elsewhere and it enabled a range of novel scientific investigations which are reviewed here and briefly set in context with theoretical work and other related experiments.

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, PO Box 808, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

    Michael H. Key

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  1. University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Dimitri Batani

  2. Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

    Charles J. Joachain

  3. University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Sergio Martellucci

  4. Hughes Research Laboratories, Inc., Malibu, California, USA

    Arthur N. Chester

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Key, M.H. (2001). Experimental Study of Petawatt Laser Produced Plasmas. In: Batani, D., Joachain, C.J., Martellucci, S., Chester, A.N. (eds) Atoms, Solids, and Plasmas in Super-Intense Laser Fields. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1351-3_8

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