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High Power Lasers and Their New Applications

  • Received : 2008.08.20
  • Accepted : 2008.09.11
  • Published : 2008.09.25
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Abstract

Recent progress in high power lasers enables us to access a regime of high-energy-density and/or ultra-strong fields that was not accessible before, opening up a fundamentally new physical domain which includes laboratory astrophysics and laser nuclear physics. In this article, new applications of high-energy and ultra-intense laser will be reviewed.

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