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Hot Matter from High-Power Lasers

Fundamentals and Phenomena

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Authors:
  1. Peter Mulser

    1. University of Technology Darmstadt Institute of Applied Physics, Darmstadt, Germany

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  • A comprehensive textbook introducing a booming field
  • Author is one of the most renowned experts in this area
  • Can be used either as a course text or for self study
  • Includes problems and solutions

Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Hot Matter from High-Power Lasers

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 1-71

  3. Single Particle Motion

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 73-178

  4. Laser Induced Fluid Dynamics

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 179-274

  5. Hot Matter in Thermal Equilibrium

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 275-360

  6. Waves in the Ideal Plasma

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 361-444

  7. Unstable Fluids and Plasmas

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 445-550

  8. Transport in Plasma

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 551-632

  9. Radiation from Hot Matter

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 633-676

  10. Applications of High Power Lasers

    • Peter Mulser
    Pages 677-727

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 729-735
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About this book

This book offers an introduction to the booming field of high-power laser-matter interaction. It covers the heating of matter to super-high temperatures and pressures, novel schemes of fast particle acceleration, matter far from thermal equilibrium, stimulated radiation scattering, relativistic optics, strong field QED, as well as relevant applications, such as extreme states of matter, controlled fusion, and novel radiation sources. All models and methods considered are introduced as they arise and illustrated by relevant examples. Each chapter contains a selection of problems to test the reader's understanding, to apply the models under discussion to relevant situations and to discover their limits of validity. The carefully chosen illustrations greatly facilitate the visualization of physical processes as well as presenting detailed numerical results.
A list of useful formulas and tables are provided as a guide to quantifying results from experiments and numerical simulations. Each chapter ends with a description of the state of the art and the current research frontiers.

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“The book is clearly written and is dedicated to the emerging field of high-power lasers with pressures comparable to those in collapsing cosmic objects, which exceed the pressures in the interior of stars. … The book is a course for master students and has nine chapters – each chapter ending with problems, references and a guide for further reading. … This is a very useful book for readers working in lasers and solid-state physics.” (Daniela Dragoman, Optics & Photonics News, osa-opn.org, May 27, 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Technology Darmstadt Institute of Applied Physics, Darmstadt, Germany

    Peter Mulser

About the author

Peter Mulser, born in Völs-Fiè, (Bolzano), Italy, studied physics at the University of Pisa, at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he gained his diploma. He received his PhD in physics from the Technical University of Munich. In 1981, following research fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching and at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, he became a full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hot Matter from High-Power Lasers

  • Book Subtitle: Fundamentals and Phenomena

  • Authors: Peter Mulser

  • Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61181-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-61179-1Published: 02 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-61181-4Published: 01 August 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4513

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 735

  • Number of Illustrations: 136 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Plasma Physics, Quantum Optics

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