Lasers and Nuclei, 2006 Applications of Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers in Nuclear Science Lecture Notes in Physics Series, Vol. 694

Fundamentals and Equipment.- The Nuclear Era of Laser Interactions: New Milestones in the History of Power Compression.- High-Intensity Laser–Matter Interaction.- Laser-Triggered Nuclear Reactions.- POLARIS: An All Diode-Pumped Ultrahigh Peak Power Laser for High Repetition Rates.- The Megajoule Laser – A High-Energy-Density Physics Facility.- Sources.- Electron and Proton Beams Produced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration and Nuclear Activation.- Pulsed Neutron Sources with Tabletop Laser-Accelerated Protons.- Transmutation.- Laser Transmutation of Nuclear Materials.- High-brightness ?-Ray Generation for Nuclear Transmutation.- Potential Role of Lasers for Sustainable Fission Energy Production and Transmutation of Nuclear Waste.- High-Power Laser Production of PET Isotopes.- Nuclear Science.- Nuclear Physics with High-Intensity Lasers.- Nuclear Physics with Laser Compton ?-Rays.- Status of Neutron Imaging.