From century-long studies to emerging frontiers: The power of light force

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Acknowledgements

The author is grateful for the support of the National Science Foundation, Plasma Physics Program via grant No. 2308947 and the support of the NASA Emerging Worlds NNH22ZDA001N-EW with grant No. 22-EW22–0016. This work was also supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences under award number DE-SC-0021030.

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