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Author Mulser, Peter.

Title High power laser-matter interaction / Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
Published Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages) : illustrations
Series Springer tracts in modern physics, 0081-3869 ; v. 238
Springer tracts in modern physics ; 238.
Contents Note continued: 4.2.1. High Amplitude Electron Plasma Waves at Moderate Density Gradients -- 4.2.2. Resonance Absorption by Nonlinear Electron Plasma Waves -- 4.3. Hot Electron Generation -- 4.3.1. Acceleration of Electrons by an Intense Smooth Langmuir Wave -- 4.3.2. Particle Acceleration by a Discontinuous Langmuir Wave -- 4.3.3. Vlasov Simulations and Experiments -- 4.4. Wavebreaking -- 4.4.1. Hydrodynamic Wavebreaking -- 4.4.2. Kinetic Theory of Wavebreaking -- References -- 5. Ponderomotive Force and Nonresonant Effects -- 5.1. Ponderomotive Force on a Single Particle -- 5.1.1. Conservation of the Cycle-Averaged Energy -- 5.1.2. Standard Perturbative Derivation of the Force -- 5.1.3. Rigorous Relativistic Treatment -- 5.2. Collective Ponderomotive Force Density -- 5.2.1. Bulk Force -- 5.2.2. Force Originating from Induced Fluctuations -- 5.2.3. Global Momentum Conservation -- 5.3. Nonresonant Ponderomotive Effects -- 5.3.1. Ablation Pressure -- 5.3.2. Filamentation and Self-Focusing -- 5.3.3. Modulational Instability -- References -- 6. Resonant Ponderomotive Effects -- 6.1. Tools -- 6.1.1. Waves, Energy Densities and Wave Pressure -- 6.1.2. Doppler Shifts -- 6.2. Instabilities Driven by Wave Pressure -- 6.2.1. Resonant Ponderomotive Coupling -- 6.2.2. Unstable Configurations -- 6.2.3. Growth Rates -- 6.3. Parametric Amplification of Pulses -- 6.3.1. Slowly Varying Amplitudes -- 6.3.2. Quasi-Particle Conservation and Manley-Rowe Relations -- 6.3.3. Light Scattering at Relativistic Intensities -- References -- 7. Intense Laser-Atom Interaction -- 7.1. Atomic Units -- 7.2. Atoms in Strong Static Electric Fields -- 7.2.1. Separation of the Schrodinger Equation -- 7.2.2. Tunneling Ionization -- 7.3. Atoms in Strong Laser Fields -- 7.3.1. Floquet Theory and Dressed States -- 7.3.2. Non-Hermitian Floquet Theory
Note continued: 7.3.3. Stabilization -- 7.3.4. Strong Field Approximation -- 7.3.5. Few-Cycle Above-Threshold Ionization -- 7.3.6. Simple Man's Theory -- 7.3.7. Interference Effects -- 7.3.8. High-Order Harmonic Generation -- 7.3.9. Strong Field Approximation for High-Order Harmonic Generation: the Lewenstein Model -- 7.3.10. Harmonic Generation Selection Rules -- 7.4. Strong Laser-Atom Interaction Beyond the Single Active Electron -- 7.4.1. Nonsequential Ionization -- References -- 8. Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction -- 8.1. Essential Relativity -- 8.1.1. Four Vectors -- 8.1.2. Momentum and Kinetic Energy -- 8.1.3. Scalars, Contravariant and Covariant Quantities -- 8.1.4. Ideal Fluid Dynamics -- 8.1.5. Kinetic Theory -- 8.1.6. Center of Momentum and Mass Frame of Noninteracing Particles -- 8.1.7. Moment Equations -- 8.1.8. Covariant Electrodynamics -- 8.2. Particle Acceleration in an Intense Laser Field -- 8.2.1. Particle Acceleration in Vacuum -- 8.2.2. Wakefield and Bubble Acceleration -- 8.3. Collisionless Absorption in Overdense Matter and Clusters -- 8.3.1. Computer Simulations of Collisionless Laser-Target Interaction -- 8.3.2. Search for Collisionless Absorption -- 8.3.3. Collisionless Absorption by Anharmonic Resonance -- 8.4. Some Relativity of Relevance in Practice -- 8.4.1. Overview -- 8.4.2. Critical Density Increase for Fast Ignition -- 8.4.3. Relativistic Self-Focusing -- References
Summary This book¡intended as a guide for scientists and students who have just discovered the field as a new and attractive area of research, and for scientists who have worked in another field and want to join now the subject of laser plasmas. In the first chapter the plasma dynamics is described phenomenologically by a two fluid model and similarity relations from dimensional analysis. Chapter 2 is devoted to plasma optics and collisional absorption in the dielectric and ballistic model. Linear resonance absorption at the plasma frequency and its mild nonlinearities as well as the self-quenching of high amplitude electron plasma waves by wave breaking are discussed in Chapter 3. With increasing laser intensity the plasma dynamics is dominated by radiation pressure, at resonance producing all kinds of parametric instabilities and out of resonance leading to density steps, self-focusing and filamentation, described in Chapters 4 and 5. A self-contained treatment of field ionization of atoms and related phenomena are found in Chapter 6. The extension of laser interaction to the relativistic electron acceleration as well as the physics of collisionless absorption are the subject of Chapter 7. Throughout the book the main emphasis is on the various basic phenomena and on their underlying physics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Laser-plasma interactions.
Matter -- Effect of radiation on
Ponderomotive force.
Laser plasmas.
High power lasers.
Laser beams.
Lasers.
Lasers
lasers (optical instruments)
Physique.
High power lasers
Laser beams
Laser-plasma interactions
Laser plasmas
Lasers
Matter -- Effect of radiation on
Ponderomotive force
Form Electronic book
Author Bauer, Dieter, 1968-
LC no. 2010927139
ISBN 9783540460657
3540460659
9783540506690
3540506691