Advances in High-Intensity Lasers and Their Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 1704
Special Issue Editor
Interests: high-intensity lasers and their applications; diode-pumped solid-state laser amplifiers for short and ultrashort pulses; solid-state laser material development and characterization; ultra-short laser pulse metrology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Applied Sciences Special Issue, "Advances in High-Intensity Lasers and Their Applications", is dedicated to new developments in the field of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses and their applications in laser–plasma physics. Topics can cover the application, generation, amplification, compression, and characterization of ultrashort laser pulses, as well as laser–matter interaction and laser-assisted inertial fusion. The scientific community urgently demands new laser concepts that allow higher repetition rates and thus higher average laser powers, offering the possibility to achieve even more accurate experimental results. Moreover, the application of high-intensity laser sources requires sophisticated pulse diagnostics using novel methods that can provide increasingly reliable information, which is a precursor for achieving higher laser stability and reliability. In addition, there is a need to open up other wavelength ranges for high-intensity laser applications, which is also addressed in this Special Issue. In particular, the generation of secondary radiation sources, such as laser-driven FELs or laser-accelerated particle beams, is reviewed.
Dr. Joachim Hein
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ultrashort laser pulses
- laser pulse metrology
- active laser stabilization
- pulse compression
- pulse contrast improvement
- high-energy frequency conversion
- high-peak-power laser applications
- laser–plasma interaction
- laser particle acceleration
- secondary source generation
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