Kaoru Yamanouchi & Dimitrios Charalambidis 
Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VII [PDF ebook] 

The PUILS series delivers up-to-date reviews of progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, a newly emerging interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics, molecular science, and optical science, which has been stimulated by the recent developments in ultrafast laser technologies. Each volume compiles peer-reviewed chapters authored by researchers at the forefront of each their own subfields of UILS. Every chapter begins with an overview of the topics to be discussed, so that researchers unfamiliar to the subfield, as well as graduate students, can grasp the importance and attractions of the research topic at hand; these are followed by reports of cutting-edge discoveries. This seventh volume covers a broad range of topics from this interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the ionization of atoms and molecules, ultrafast responses of protons and electrons within a molecule, molecular alignment, high-order harmonics and attosecond pulse generation, and acceleration of electrons and ions in laser plasmas.

Table des matières

Intense-field Dirac theory of ionization of hydrogen and hydrogenic ions in infrared and free-electron laser fields.- Ultrafast Hydrogen Migration in Hydrocarbon Molecules Driven by Intense Laser Fields.- Control of π-Electron Rotations in Chiral Aromatic Molecules Using Intense Laser Pulses.- Optically probed laser-induced field-free molecular alignment.- Directionally asymmetric tunneling ionization and control of molecular orientation by phase-controlled laser fields.- High harmonic generation from aligned molecules.- New methods for computing high-order harmonic generation and propagation.- On the generation of intense isolated attosecond pulses by many-cycle laser fields.- Relativistic laser plasmas for electron acceleration and short wavelength radiation generation.- Ion acceleration in sub-critical density plasma via interaction of intense laser pulses with cluster-gas targets.