TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mulser,Peter
AU  - Bauer,Dieter
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - High Power Laser-Matter Interaction
T2  - Springer Tracts in Modern Physics,
SN  - 9783540460657
AV  - QC173.45-173.458 
U1  - 530.41 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Physics
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Condensed Matter Physics
KW  - Quantum Optics
KW  - Engineering, general
KW  - Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices
KW  - Plasma Physics
KW  - Spectroscopy and Microscopy
N1  - Introductory Remarks and Overview -- The Laser Plasma: Basic Phenomena and Laws -- Laser Light Propagation and Collisional Absorption -- Resonance Absorption -- The Ponderomotive Force and Nonresonant Effects -- Resonant Ponderomotive Effects -- Intense Laser–Atom Interaction -- Relativistic Laser–Plasma Interaction
N2  - 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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