Short Pulse Laser Interactions with Matter: An Introduction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781860941351)

This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse laser-matter interactions.Femtosecond lasers have undergone dramatic technological advances over the last fifteen years, generating a whole host of new research activities under the theme of "ultrafast science". The focused light from these devices is so intense that ordinary matter is torn apart within a few laser cycles. This book takes a close-up look at the exotic physical phenomena which arise as a result of this new form of "light-matter" interaction, covering a diverse set of topics including multiphoton ionization, rapid heatwaves, fast particle generation and relativistic self-channeling. These processes are central to a number of exciting new applications in other fields, such as microholography, optical particle accelerators and photonuclear physics.Repository for numerical models described in Chapter 6 can be found at www.fz-juelich.de/zam/cams/plasma/SPLIM/.

Author: Paul Gibbon
ISBN-10: 1860941354
ISBN-13: 9781860941351
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2005
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.88w x 0.90d