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Single cycle thin film compressor opening the door to Zeptosecond-Exawatt physics

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This article demonstrates a new compression scheme that has the potential to compress a high energy pulse as high as a few hundred Joules in a pulse as short as one optical cycle at 0.8 μm producing a true ultra-relativistic λ3 pulse. This pulse would have a focused intensity of 1024 W/cm2 or a0 of 1000. On interaction with a solid target, this pulse could form an efficient, 10%, relativistic mirror that could further compress the pulse to the atto-zeptosecond regime, with an upshifted wavelength of 1–10 keV. This technique could be a watershed enabling the compression of petawatt pulses into the exawatt and zeptosecond regime possible.

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  1. IZEST, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau, France

    G. Mourou

  2. Institute of Applied Physics RAS, 46 Ul’yanov Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    S. Mironov, E. Khazanov & A. Sergeev

  3. University of Nizhni Novgorod, 23 Prospekt Gagarina, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    G. Mourou & E. Khazanov

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Mourou, G., Mironov, S., Khazanov, E. et al. Single cycle thin film compressor opening the door to Zeptosecond-Exawatt physics. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 223, 1181–1188 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02171-5

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