“…The TARANIS laser, along with a home-built synchronized femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser will be used in the research areas of laserfield accelerated ion generation, warm dense matter, pump-probe experiments, and X-ray lasers. Due to its high degree of flexibility TARANIS should provide an excellent tool for original scientific research as well as bench-mark investigations carried out in support of work carried out at larger external high-power laser facilities such as PALS, VULCAN, NHELIX, and others (Zvorykin et al, 2007;Jungwirth, 2005;Danson et al, 2005;Neumayer et al, 2005;Schaumann et al 2005).…”