2. Laser chains

2.1 Using high-power lasers

Understanding the mechanisms by which light interacts with matter is a fundamental problem and a vast field of study in modern physics. It was only a few years after the invention of the laser by T.H. Maiman that high-power lasers were developed, enabling the first high-power laser-matter interaction experiments.

Major milestones, such as the production of the first fusion neutrons by interaction of a GW nanosecond pulsed laser on a deuterium...