1. Editorial

   • S. Jacquemot
   • Ph. Martin
   • E. Mével

   EditorialNotes 14 August 2009 Pages: 1 - 2

2. An integrated approach to ultraintense laser sciences: The PLASMON-X project

   • L. A. Gizzi
   • A. Bacci
   • C. Vaccarezza

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 3 - 10

3. Generation and application of high energy, 30 fs pulses at 527 nm by hollow-fiber compression technique

   • C. Altucci
   • S. Amoruso
   • X. Wang

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 11 - 14

4. Isolated attosecond pulse generated by spatial shaping of femtosecond laser beam

   • V. Strelkov
   • E. Mével
   • E. Constant

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 15 - 20

5. A quantitative-accurate S-matrix model for the description high-order harmonic generation

   • J. A. Pérez-Hernández
   • L. Plaja

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 21 - 24

6. Relativistic laser plasmas for novel radiation sources

   • A. Pukhov
   • T. Baeva
   • D. an der Brügge

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 25 - 33

7. High order harmonic generation from solid targets: Towards intense attosecond pulses

   • A. Tarasevitch
   • D. von der Linde

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 35 - 41

8. High-order harmonic generation from plasma mirrors

   • C. Thaury
   • F. Quéré
   • Ph. Martin

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 43 - 48

9. Mechanisms of electron injection into laser wakefields by a weak counter-propagating pulse

   • Z. M. Sheng
   • W. M. Wang
   • J. Zhang

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 49 - 55

10. High brightness keV harmonics from relativistically oscillating plasma surfaces

    • B. Dromey
    • D. Adams
    • M. Zepf

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 57 - 60

11. Proton radiography of magnetic field in laser produced plasma

    • S. le Pape
    • P. Patel
    • A. Mackinnon

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 61 - 64

12. Smoothing of laser energy deposition by gas jets

    • D. Batani
    • R. Benocci
    • P. Nicolai

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 65 - 70

13. Fast electron energy deposition in aluminium foils: Resistive vs. drag heating

    • J. J. Santos
    • A. Debayle
    • J. J. Honrubia

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 71 - 76

14. Recent results at LULI on fast electron transport with and without guiding cone in the context of fast ignitor

    • S. D. Baton
    • M. Koenig
    • T. Cowan

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 77 - 82

15. Numerical simulations of the HiPER baseline target

    • X. Ribeyre
    • Ph. Nicolaï
    • V. T. Tikhonchuk

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 83 - 88

16. Importance of magnetic resistive fields in the heating of a micro-cone target irradiated by a high intensity laser

    • E. d’Humières
    • J. Rassuchine
    • T. E. Cowan

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 89 - 95

17. Particle acceleration in ultra-intense laser plasma interaction

    • P. Mora

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 97 - 104

18. Laser-driven proton acceleration and applications: Recent results

    • M. Borghesi
    • T. Toncian
    • Y. Sentoku

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 105 - 110

19. Ion acceleration in ultra-high contrast regime

    • A. Lévy
    • T. Ceccotti
    • E. Lefebvre

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 111 - 116

20. Electron sheath dynamics and structure in intense laser driven ion acceleration

    • S. Ter-Avetisyan
    • M. Schnürer
    • K. Mima

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 117 - 121

21. Laser ion acceleration in a mass limited targets

    • A. A. Andreev
    • J. Limpouch
    • V. T. Tikhonchuk

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 123 - 126

22. Ionization instability of a relativistic electron beam propagating through a dielectric target

    • A. Debayle
    • V. T. Tikhonchuk

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 127 - 132

23. Enhanced ion acceleration with extremely thin foils

    • R. A. Loch
    • A. Lévy
    • Ph. Martin

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 133 - 138

24. Time and space resolved interferometry for detecting plasma expansion from solid targets

    • P. Antici
    • J. Fuchs
    • P. Audebert

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 139 - 142

25. Observations of plasma heating by fast electron transport at the back side of solid targets

    • G. Malka
    • Ph. Nicolai
    • V. Tikhonchuk

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 143 - 146

26. High-intensity lasers as radiation sources

    • J. Galy
    • D. J. Hamilton
    • C. Normand

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 147 - 152

27. Grazing incidence pumping of an 18.9 nm Ni-like Mo X-ray laser

    • N. Booth
    • M. H. Edwards
    • M. Streeter

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 153 - 158

28. Particles formation in an expanding plasma

    • E. Lescoute
    • L. Hallo
    • S. Palmier

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 159 - 164

29. Fundamental processes in relativistic laser plasmas

    • S. V. Bulanov

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 165 - 174

30. (2γ,2e) total and differential cross-section calculations for helium with ħω = 40–50 eV

    • E. Foumoup
    • H. Bachau
    • B. Piraux

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 175 - 180

31. QED vacuum effects in intense laser fields

    • A. Di Piazza
    • K. Z. Hatsagortsyan

    OriginalPaper Open access 14 August 2009 Pages: 181 - 185

32. Exotic atoms in superintense laser fields

    • C. Müller
    • A. Shahbaz
    • C. H. Keitel

    OriginalPaper Open access 14 August 2009 Pages: 187 - 190

33. Direct observation of quantum-path interferences in high order harmonic generation

    • E. Cormier
    • A. Zaïr
    • P. Salières

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 191 - 194

34. Quasi-static electromagnetic pulse generated by ultra-intense laser pulses

    • T. Nakamura
    • K. Mima

    OriginalPaper 14 August 2009 Pages: 195 - 198