Short Pulse Laser Interactions With Matter: An Introduction (eBook)

Gibbon Paul Gibbon (Autor)

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2005
328 Seiten
World Scientific Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-911298-84-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;ultrafast science"e;. 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 "e;light-matter"e; 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/.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Plasmaphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-911298-84-4 / 1911298844
• ISBN-13: 978-1-911298-84-7 / 9781911298847