Study of extreme states of matter at high energy densities and high   strain rates with powerful lasers
  In the paper, a review of most important results of experimental studies of thermonuclear plasma in conical targets, generation of shock waves and spallation phenomena in different materials, which were carried out at laser facilities of the A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS since 1977, is presented. 
Igor K. Krasyuk, Pavel P. Pashinin, Andrey Yu. Semenov, Konstantin V.   Khishchenko, Vladimir E. Fortov
physics.plasm-ph cond-mat.mtrl-sci