● Laser plasma interactions
● Inertial confinement fusion
● Laboratory astrophysics
● Nuclear photonics
● Bright X-rays, gamma rays, and applications
● Laser driven electron and ion acceleration
● Extreme nonlinearity and relativistic optics
● QED effects of high-intensity laser

● Laser facility engineering
● Laser system design, modeling and optimization
● Pulse generators and preamplifiers
● Laser pumping and amplifiers
● Frequency conversion and nonlinear optics
● Beam shaping, smoothing and combining
● Light propagation, alignment, diagnostics and wave-front correction
● Laser and plasma diagnostics

● Optical materials
● Optical fabrication, processing and testing
● Optical film coating
● Optical gratings
● Laser induced damage
● Novel optical materials and devices
● Target fabrication

● Ultrahigh power laser technologies
● High-repetition-rate laser technologies
● High power mid-infrared, visible and other novel bands laser technologies
● High power terahertz sources and applications
● Ultrafast and attosecond technologies
● Fiber and fiber lasers
● Semiconductor and diode pumped solid state lasers
● Excimer, gas, chemical and free electron lasers
● High power laser applications