Petawatt Lasers: Science and Applications

Authors

  • P. P. Rajeev Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

Keywords:

High Power Lasers, Ultrashort pulses, laser-matter interactions

Abstract

With the advent of the chirped-pulse amplification technique (for which the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 was awarded), high-power lasers with Terawatt (TW) and Petawatt (PW) peak powers( 1TW = 1012 W, 1PW = 1015 W) have become ubiquitous. Here, we briefly review progress in the development of these lasers and discuss the science and applications they open up.

Author Biography

P. P. Rajeev, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

Professor Rajeev Paramel Pattathil is the Head of Novel Accelerator Science and Applications at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK. He is also the Deputy Technical Director of the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre at RAL and the Head of the joint UK-India Innovation Centre (EPIC) at TIFR, Hyderabad. He is an associate member of the John Adams Institute, University of Oxford and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at TIFR and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

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Published

18-06-2022

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P. P. Rajeev. (2022). Petawatt Lasers: Science and Applications. APT Tunes. Retrieved from https://apttunes.aptkerala.org/index.php/tunes/article/view/ra220302

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2022: APT Tunes, June 2022

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Recent Advances

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