This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse laser-matter interactions. Femtosecond lasers have undergone dramatic technological advances over the last fifteen years, generating a whole host of new research activities under the theme of “ultrafast science”. The focused light from these devices is so intense that ordinary matter is torn apart within a few laser cycles. This book takes a close-up look at the exotic physical phenomena which arise as a result of this new form of “light-matter” interaction, covering a diverse set of topics including multiphoton ionization, rapid heatwaves, fast particle generation and relativistic self-channeling. These processes are central to a number of exciting new applications in other fields, such as microholography, optical particle accelerators and photonuclear physics.
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The field of high-intensity laser interaction with matter, although barely two decades old, is already bursting with enough exotic phenomena to keep researchers busy for years to come. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
femtosecond interactions, short pulse interactions, underdense plasmas, wakefield generation, wakefield excitation, hot electron temperature, overdense plasma, average rest frame, hot electron generation, preformed plasma, fast ignition, laser cycle, collisional absorption, plasma wake, laser period, subpicosecond laser pulses, normal skin effect, laser propagation, plasma period, pump strengths, metal optics, laser axis, ponderomotive force, steep density gradients, ponderomotive potential Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The field of high-intensity laser interaction with matter, although barely two decades old, is already bursting with enough exotic phenomena to keep researchers busy for years to come. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
femtosecond interactions, short pulse interactions, underdense plasmas, wakefield generation, wakefield excitation, hot electron temperature, overdense plasma, average rest frame, hot electron generation, preformed plasma, fast ignition, laser cycle, collisional absorption, plasma wake, laser period, subpicosecond laser pulses, normal skin effect, laser propagation, plasma period, pump strengths, metal optics, laser axis, ponderomotive force, steep density gradients, ponderomotive potential Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Alamos, American Physical Society, Queen's University Belfast New!
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- Laser-Plasma Interactions (Scottish Graduate Series) by Dino A. Jaroszynski on 4 pages
- The Physics of Laser-Atom Interactions (Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics) by Dieter Suter in Front Matter
- Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press in Back Matter
- Mathematical Methods of Physics (2nd Edition) by Jon Mathews in Back Matter
- The Principles of Nonlinear Optics (Wiley Classics Library) by Y. R. Shen in Back Matter
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