The Exawatt Laser: From Relativistic to Ultra Relativistic Optics

Gérard A. Mourou

CLEO/Europe and IQEC 2007 Conference Digest
(Optica Publishing Group, 2007),
paper PL1_1

The Exawatt Laser: From Relativistic to Ultra Relativistic Optics

Gérard A. Mourou

The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2007

Munich Germany
ISBN: 1-4244-931-4

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Abstract

We will describe a laser system that will produce peak power at the exawatt 10¹⁸W/cm² level. It will usher in a new regime in optics: the ultra-relativistic regime, that will succeed to the already successful regime of relativistic optics.

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