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Laser plasma accelerators are capable of production electron bunches with energies up to 10 GeV, exponential or quasi-monoenergetic spectrum, low divergence and high charge. The record parameters were obtained using PW lasers having very low repetition rate. By contrast, tabletop femtosecond lasers can accelerate electron up to 100 MeV at high repetition rates ranging from 10 to 10000 Hz. Hence such lasers are very attractive for numerous applications. This paper presents our recent experimental studies of various secondary sources using a few TW laser for electron acceleration: X-ray and gamma sources, neutron sources, THz sources. All the data is supported by numerical simulations using PIC and other codes.