• Plasma-based pulse compression methods aimed at next-generation zettawatt lasers

• Generation of THz waves and cosmic radio bursts arising from plasma phenomena

• Particle acceleration resulting from laser-plasma interactions

• Radiation reaction of an accelerating charge

• QED (quantum electrodynamics) in laser-plasma systems

• Advancing the development of electromagnetic particle-in-cell codes and envelope codes to model these complex phenomena

Laser-plasma interactions

•  Development of new plasma sources 

• Generation of high quality electron beams 

• Betatron X-ray source generation 

• LWFA with external injection from conventional RF accelerators 

• Plasma lens for focusing electrons 

• Strong THz generation 

• Plasma optics 

Laboratory Astrophysics 

• Extreme and exotic plasmas from intense laser-plasma interactions 

• Relativistic electron-positron pair plasma generation 

X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs)

• Self-seeded Hard X-ray Free Electron Lasers 

• New XFEL modes 

• Compact XFEL using laser wakefield accelerators 

• EUV-FEL