High Power Laser-Matter Interaction

• Main Authors: Mulser, Peter (Author), Bauer, Dieter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 238
• Subjects: Physics.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Quantum optics.; Condensed matter.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Engineering.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Engineering, general.; Quantum Optics.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Plasma Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

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 phenomen...

Table of Contents:

• Introductory Remarks and Overview
• The Laser Plasma: Basic Phenomena and Laws
• Laser Light Propagation and Collisional Absorption
• Resonance Absorption
• The Ponderomotive Force and Nonresonant Effects
• Resonant Ponderomotive Effects
• Intense Laser–Atom Interaction
• Relativistic Laser–Plasma Interaction.