The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

The investigation of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of femtosecond laser pulses by
means of laser-produced plasmas is surveyed. This kind of harmonic generation is an …

Abstract Particle-in-cell (PIC) methods have a long history in the study of laser-plasma
interactions. Early electromagnetic codes used the Yee staggered grid for field variables …

This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the
theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse …

The interaction of a 1053 nm picosecond laser pulse with a solid target has been studied for
focused intensities of up to 1019 W cm− 2. The maximum ion energy cutoff E max (which is …

The generation of harmonics by interaction of an ultrashort laser pulse with a step boundary
of a plane overdense plasma layer is studied at intensities I λ2= 1017–1019 W cm− 2 μm2 …

Specular reflection is one of the most fundamental processes of optics. At moderate light
intensities generated by conventional light sources this process is well understood. But at …

High-harmonic generation with excitation pulses shorter than 25 fs is studied theoretically
using a 3D model. For very short excitation pulses, a new regime of harmonic generation by …

The generation of extremely bright coherent X-ray pulses in the femtosecond and
attosecond regime is currently one of the most exciting frontiers of physics–allowing, for the …

Absorption mechanisms for ultra-intense (I> 10/sup 17/W/cm/sup 2/) laser pulses incident on
solids and overdense plasma slabs are discussed. We focus on the ultrashort pulse regime …