ИСТИНА

Powerful femtosecond lasers could provide for relativistic electrons, high energy protons and heavier ions as well as high fluences of X-rays and gammas. All these high energy particles are very useful for the new emerging field – nuclear photonics. Here we focused at the recent theoretical and experimental advances and perspectives of nuclear photonics with table top femtosecond lasers. Namely we touch isomeric nuclear state excitation, neutron production, nuclear excitation below GDR, etc. Experimental schemes for efficient production of well collimated relativistic electron beams are also presented.