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High Power Laser-Matter Interaction

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Peter Mulser

    1. Institut für Angewandte Physik (IAP), TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  2. Dieter Bauer

    1. , Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (STMP, volume 238)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introductory Remarks and Overview

    • Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Laser Plasma: Basic Phenomena and Laws

    • Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 5-89

  4. Laser Light Propagation and Collisional Absorption

    • Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 91-151

  5. Resonance Absorption

    • Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 153-192

  6. The Ponderomotive Force and Nonresonant Effects

    • Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 193-227

  7. Resonant Ponderomotive Effects

    • Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 229-266

  8. Intense Laser–Atom Interaction

    • Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 267-330

  9. Relativistic Laser–Plasma Interaction

    • Peter Mulser, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 331-403

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 405-416
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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.

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“The aim of the present work is the description of the main aspects of laser-matter interaction … . In the book many considerations are added which are not covered in former textbooks or monographies. … The book is intended for students of graduate courses, but it may be also useful for scientists as a reference book.” (Claudia-Veronika Meister, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1221, 2011)

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  • Institut für Angewandte Physik (IAP), TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Peter Mulser

  • , Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Dieter Bauer

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