Abstract
Light intensity of a few times 1016 W/cm2 can be generated with femtosecond laser pulses of only about a millijoule of energy. The interaction of such extremely intense ultrashort laser pulses with solid materials leads to the formation of a plasma in a time given by the pulse duration, which may be shorter than the time scales of energy and mass transport. The resulting new regime of very energetic, short-lived, solid density laser plasmas may be interesting for the generation of ultrashort X-ray pulses and for the development of new X-ray laser schemes.
© 1990 Optical Society of America
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