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Advanced Laser Facilities and Scientific Applications

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Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XIII

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This contribution reviews the different approaches for extreme laser facilities and their potential scientific and technical applications. In short, we can address two obvious questions, what extreme lasers can we build? and what are them good for?

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Author acknowledges the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Projects No. FIS2013-47741-R, and FIS2016-81056-R AEI/FEDER UE), the Junta de Castilla and Leon Regional Government (UIC-167, project CLP087U16), and LaserLab Europe IV Grant Agreement No. 654148.

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    Luis Roso

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA

    Wendell T. Hill III

  3. Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany

    Gerhard G. Paulus

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Roso, L. (2017). Advanced Laser Facilities and Scientific Applications. In: Yamanouchi, K., Hill III, W., Paulus, G. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XIII. Springer Series in Chemical Physics(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64840-8_9

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