We report on the generation and delivery of 10.2 PW peak power laser pulses, using the High Power Laser System at the Extreme Laser Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics facility. In this work we demonstrate for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the compression and propagation of full energy, full aperture, laser pulses that reach a power level of more than 10 PW.

We report on the generation and delivery of 10 PW peak power laser pulses, using the High Power Laser System (HPLS) at the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP).