Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XV

Preface
Contents
Contributors
1 Femtosecond Laser Filamentation Induced Phenomena and Applications
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 High Intensity Short Pulse Interaction
	1.3 Air Lasing
	1.4 Population Inversion in the Air Filament Containing Other Molecules
	1.5 Intensity Clamping, Self-mode Cleaning and Self-phase Locking
	1.6 Filament Induced Chemical Reaction
	1.7 Remote Sensing and Vertical Propagation
	1.8 Industrial Application: Cutting Brittle Materials Using Filaments
	1.9 Wood Cutting
	1.10 Filament Induced Discharge Guiding, Condensation, Precipitation and Air Motion (Wind)
	1.11 Conclusion
	References
2 Mechanism of Population  Inversion in N2+
	2.1 Introduction
		2.1.1 Superradiant Emission Mechanism
		2.1.2 Excitation Mechanism
		2.1.3 Efficient Excitation in a Two-Level System at Off-Resonance
		2.1.4 Population Inversion Achieved by Sudden Turn-On Pulse in N2+
	2.2 Theoretical Model
		2.2.1 Vibrational Basis
		2.2.2 Rotational Basis
		2.2.3 Numerical Solution of Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
		2.2.4 Quasi-stationary Floquet Theory
	2.3 Population Inversion in Aligned N2+
		2.3.1 Time-Dependent Population Transition
		2.3.2 Floquet Interpretation
		2.3.3 Population Inversion Assisted by A2Πu State
	2.4 Rotational Excitation in N2+
	2.5 Summary
	References
3 Bichromatic Control of Free Electron Wave Packets
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Experimental Techniques
		3.2.1 Bichromatic Polarization Shaping
		3.2.2 Photoelectron Tomography
	3.3 Control of Free Electron Wave Packets
		3.3.1 Control by Frequency Mixing
		3.3.2 Control of Directional Photoemission
		3.3.3 Single Color Electron Vortices
		3.3.4 Odd-Numbered Electron Wave Packets from Bichromatic MPI
		3.3.5 Rydberg Wave Packet Dynamics
		3.3.6 Spin-Orbit Wave Packet Dynamics
	3.4 Conclusion and Outlook
	References
4 Light-Dressed Spectroscopy of Molecules
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Theoretical Approach
		4.2.1 Determination of Light-Dressed States
		4.2.2 Temporal Evolution of a Light-Dressed System
		4.2.3 Transitions Between Light-Dressed States
	4.3 Computational Details
	4.4 Results and Discussion
		4.4.1 Interpretation of the Light-Dressed Spectrum
		4.4.2 Intensity Dependence of the Light-Dressed Spectrum
		4.4.3 Frequency Dependence of the Light-Dressed Spectrum
		4.4.4 Light-Dressed Spectra at Finite Temperatures
		4.4.5 Effects of the Dressing-Field Turn-On Time on the Light-Dressed States
	4.5 Summary and Conclusions
	References
5 Coherent Nonlinear Processes  in Metal-Semiconductor Hybrid Nanostructures
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Linear Optical Response of Metal-J-Aggregate Hybrid Nanostructures
	5.3 Polariton Dynamics
	5.4 Real-Time Observation of Rabi Oscillations
	5.5 Optical Starck Effects in Hybrid Systems
	5.6 Other Coherent Interactions
	5.7 Emerging Trends and Outloook
	References
6 Coherent Control of Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Electron-Phonon Systems by Quantized Light Field
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Model and Method
	6.3 Calculated Results
	6.4 Summary
	References
7 Application of CR-39 Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors to Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration Experiments
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Fundamentals of the SSNTDs
		7.2.1 Introduction to CR-39 Detectors
		7.2.2 Etch Pit Growth Behaviour
		7.2.3 Determination of the Range of an Ion in an SSNTD
		7.2.4 Proof-of-Principal Experiments of Range Determination Using CR-39
	7.3 Application of CR-39 Detectors to Measurements of Laser-Accelerated Ions
		7.3.1 Experiments
		7.3.2 Energy Spectra of Laser-Accelerated Ions
	7.4 Conclusions
	References
8 Towards Laser Intensity Calibration Using High-Field Ionization
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Theory
		8.2.1 Qualitative Analysis
		8.2.2 Tunneling Ionization Rates Calculation
		8.2.3 Intensity-Dependent Ionization Offset
		8.2.4 Effect of the Intensity Space Distribution
	8.3 Numerical Calculations
	8.4 Conclusions and Outlook
	References
Index