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    Laser machining can modify and reshape materials on the scale comparable to light’s wavelength. Here, authors use tailored microstructures to push the limit of laser machining to a scale that is almost 100 times smaller than a wavelength of light.

    • Maxim R. Shcherbakov
    • , Giovanni Sartorello
    •  & Gennady Shvets

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    | Open Access

    Gratings are used for pulse compression and stretching in chirped pulse amplification (CPA) or optical parametric CPA methods. Here the authors demonstrate ultra-broadband gold gratings that can compress single-cycle pulses with powers around 100 petawatts.

    • Yuxing Han
    • , Zhaoyang Li
    •  & Jianda Shao

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    | Open Access

    A detailed understanding of particle stopping in matter is essential for nuclear fusion and high energy density science. Here, the authors report one order of magnitude enhancement of intense laser-accelerated proton beam stopping in dense ionized matter in comparison with currently used models describing ion stopping in matter.

    • Jieru Ren
    • , Zhigang Deng
    •  & Yongtao Zhao

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    | Open Access

    Shaping particle beams generated from laser-plasma accelerators is challenging. Here the authors demonstrate an all-optical method to structure the accelerated proton beam by modulating and imprinting the spatial laser profile onto the proton beam.

    • Lieselotte Obst-Huebl
    • , Tim Ziegler
    •  & Karl Zeil

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    | Open Access

    Short pulses of high intensity laser light usually heat the ions in dense plasmas indirectly via collisions with the electrons. Here, the authors identify an extremely rapid alternative heating mechanism based on ion-ion collisions.

    • A. E. Turrell
    • , M. Sherlock
    •  & S. J. Rose

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