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Description
As the three ELI pillars in Romania, Czech Republic and Hungary and other large scale facilities like the Apollon system are becoming a reality, unfathomable possibilities not envisaged in the original proposal are coming up. They stem from the combination of peak power, flattop and low beam divergence. The most intriguing one is the capacity to compress petawatt pulses to the single cycle regime. It gives access to exawatt pulse, efficient generation of high energy particle and radiation as well as attosecond-zepto second pulse. Their shortness in the atto and sub attosecond regimes makes their spectrum in the X-ray domain. These high field X-ray pulses could for the first time be used to generate wake field acceleration in solid with a behemoth accelerating gradient of TeV/cm. This new intensity regime will make possible the laser to penetrate into the field of Nonlinear Quantum Electro-dynamic, to fulfill a fifty years old dream.
