Abstract
Advances in solid state lasers has enabled progress toward meeting grand challenges. Examples to be considered are the detection of gravitational waves; laser acceleration to enable TeV scale physics and the generation of attosecond coherent x-rays.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
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