ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
Extreme Soliton Driven Light Sources
Many important breakthroughs in science have occurred when investigating the laws of nature at extremes. Strong-field effects, such as relativistic plasma dynamics, high-harmonic generation and laser-driven particle acceleration, appear at extreme intensities of electromagnetic fields. By using very short laser pulses and focusing them very tightly, these effects and their applications come within reach of table-top systems. I will explore extreme strong-field physics at the fundamental limits of spatio-temporal confinement and open the door to a completely new regime of strong-field interactions in the vacuum ultraviolet. I will achieve this by scaling soliton-driven light sources in…
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