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  • Modelling shows how plasma density gradients can be tailored to compress optical pulses in the final stages of laser systems towards exawatt (1018 W) peak powers.

    • Brendan Dromey
    News & Views
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 17, P: 1026-1027

    • Oliver Graydon
    Research Highlights
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 8, P: 3

    • David Pile
    Research Highlights
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 8, P: 267

    • Maria Maragkou
    Research Highlights
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 8, P: 585

  • A field trial in the Swiss mountains demonstrating that an intense laser beam can guide lightning discharge over tens of metres gives hope for the development of a new form of mobile lightning protection.

    • Cord L. Arnold
    • Clara J. Saraceno
    • M. Teresa Correia de Barros
    News & Views
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 17, P: 211-212

  • New methods to control how laser pulses propagate inside a plasma could signify the start of a global race to demonstrate truly high-energy compact particle accelerators.

    • Rob J. Shalloo
    • Stuart P. D. Mangles
    News & Views
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 14, P: 470-471

  • Focusing short CO2 laser pulses into air reveals rich ionization physics that is best explained by solid-state theories and results in centimetre-scale-diameter megafilaments that transport joules of energy.

    • Günter Steinmeyer
    News & Views
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 13, P: 7-8

  • The spatiotemporal characterization of a high-peak-power pulsed laser beam reveals previously undetected wavefront distortions.

    • Tamas Nagy
    • Günter Steinmeyer
    News & Views
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 10, P: 502-504

  • The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project is dedicated to the investigation of light–matter interactions at high laser intensities and on short timescales.

    Editorial
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 15, P: 1

  • Use of an ultra-high-intensity X-ray laser has allowed X-ray and optical waves to be mixed in a diamond sample. The effect paves the way to studying the microscopic optical response of materials on an atomic scale. See Article p.603

    • Nina Rohringer
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 488, P: 598-599

  • Inertial fusion energy is one potential path towards realizing sustainable energy. The development of a laser power plant capable of delivering high-energy laser pulses is crucial for realizing laser-driven inertial fusion energy.

    • Rachel Won
    News & Views
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 7, P: 772-774

  • Researchers are proposing a new experiment that will probe fundamental aspects of the quantum vacuum by searching for highly elusive photon–photon scattering events.

    • Mattias Marklund
    News & Views
    Nature Photonics
    Volume: 4, P: 72-74