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Challenges and Perspectives

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Relativistically Intense Laser–Microplasma Interactions

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Abstract

Several significant results were achieved within the framework of this thesis (previous section). Along the way, some challenges and opportunities were identified, which could benefit in one or another way from the presented developments. These perspectives will be discussed in this last chapter.

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    This section is reproduced with small variations, and with permission, from the original peer-reviewed article: T.M. Ostermayr et al., Review of Scientific Instruments, 89:013302, (2018). The article is published by the American Institute of Physics and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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    This section is reproduced with small variations, and with permission, from the original peer-reviewed article: T.M. Ostermayr et al., Review of Scientific Instruments, 89:013302, (2018). The article is published by the American Institute of Physics and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Ostermayr, T. (2019). Challenges and Perspectives. In: Relativistically Intense Laser–Microplasma Interactions. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22208-6_8

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