Applications of High-Field and Short Wavelength Sources

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Production of Petawatt Laser Pulses....Pages 1-9
Multiterawatt Ultraviolet Lasers....Pages 11-15
0.27 Terawatt laser system at 1 kHz....Pages 17-21
Determination of the Duration of UV Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 23-27
Saturated Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers by Discharge Excitation....Pages 29-38
Phase-Locking of High-Order Harmonics to the Fundamental Field....Pages 39-44
Soft-X-Ray Harmonics in the Water Window....Pages 45-51
Harmonic Generation in Presence of Ionization....Pages 53-58
The Optimisation of Soft X-Ray Laser Output....Pages 59-64
Spectroscopic Investigations of an Optical-Fieldionized X-Ray Laser with a Microcapillary Target....Pages 65-69
Guided-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in Gases: A Novel Phase-Matching Technique for Ultrafast Pulses....Pages 71-77
Increased Coherence Length in High-Order Harmonic Generation by a Self-Guided Beam....Pages 79-83
Accelerator Based Source Development: Higher, Wider and Shorter....Pages 85-92
A Debrisless Laser-Plasma Source for EUV and XUV Generation....Pages 93-96
Attosecond Pulse Generation at Gas Ionization by Few-Optical-Cycle Laser Pulses....Pages 97-102
X-Ray Emission from Rare Gas Clusters in Intense Laser Fields....Pages 103-108
Hard X-Ray Emission from Femtosecond Laser Interaction in Overdense Plasmas....Pages 109-112
Plasma Waveguide: Density Development and High Intensity Guiding....Pages 113-121
Explosion of Atomic Clusters Heated by High Intensity, Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 123-130
Solid to Plasma Transition in Fs-Laser-Irradiated Fe: Collapse of the Spin-Orbit Gap....Pages 131-134
Pressure Ionization and Density Diagnostics in Subpicosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas....Pages 135-140
Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation for the Interaction between a Laser Pulse and a Metal....Pages 141-144
Femtosecond Stimulation of Atomic and Nuclear Processes in High Intensity Laser Plasmas....Pages 145-148
Time Resolved Optical Probing of Supersonic Ionisation Fronts in Short Pulse-Solid Target Interactions....Pages 149-154
Ultrafast Incoherent X-Ray Source Utilizing Ultra Thin Freely Suspended Films....Pages 155-163
Barrier-Suppression Ionization of Complex Atoms and Diatomic Molecules....Pages 165-169
Relativistically Self-Guided Laser-Wakefield Acceleration....Pages 171-178
A Single-Beam, Ponderomotive-Optical Trap for Energetic Free Electrons....Pages 179-184
Ultrafast Diffraction from Rydberg Wave Packets Using High Harmonics....Pages 185-189
Backward and Multi-Echo Field Ionization by Intense Non-Envelope ‘Superpulses’....Pages 191-196
Deconvolved Ionization Probabilities for Strong Field Ionization of Xenon....Pages 197-200
Precision Tests of Laser-Tunneling Ionization Models....Pages 201-206
Self-Guiding without Focusing Nonlinearity: Leaking Mode Self-Effect Due to Field-Induced Saturable Ionization....Pages 207-211
Classical Theory of Nonlinear Compton Scattering and Three-Dimensional Ponderomotive Scattering....Pages 213-222
The Molecular Hydrogen B-State in an Intense Light Field....Pages 223-228
Electron Dynamics in the Strong Field Limit of Photoionization....Pages 229-236
Intense Laser Interactions: Higher Order Resonances and Hot Electrons....Pages 237-244
Influence of Relativistic Structure and Retardation in Two-Photon Transitions in Hydrogenic Systems....Pages 245-250
Laser Wakefield Acceleration Experiments....Pages 251-252
Femtosecond Harmonic Laser Photoemission: Physics and Chemistry....Pages 253-260
Two-Photon Ionization and Three-Photon Above-Threshold Ionization of Argon....Pages 261-265
Ultra-Fast Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Detected by an Averaging Mode Streak Camera....Pages 267-270
Radiological Applications of Hard X-Ray Emission from a Laser-Produced Plasma....Pages 271-276
Biological X-Ray Microscopy with a Compact Laser System....Pages 277-284
High Harmonics as a Probe for Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas....Pages 285-292
Laser-Assisted Multicolor Photoionization of Atoms with Higher Harmonics....Pages 293-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-300