This chapter attempts to give an overview of the historical development and current progress
of femtosecond laser micro-nanofabrication based on multiphoton absorption, and particular …

Recent theoretical and experimental research with short-pulse, high-intensity lasers is
surveyed with particular emphasis on new physical processes that occur in interactions with …

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

A high-temperature plasma is created when an intense laser pulse is focused onto the
surface of a solid. An ultrafast pulse of x-ray radiation is emitted from such a plasma when …

The absorption of subpicosecond, obliquely incident laser light is studied using a 11/2D
particle-in-cell code. Density scale lengths from L/λ= 0.01 to 2 and laser irradiances between …

We have studied experimentally the angular and energy distribution of the suprathermal
electrons produced during the interaction of a 120 fs, 50 mJ, 800 nm, P-polarized laser pulse …

In this work, we show that x-ray-line polarization spectroscopy can be a powerful diagnostic
to study laser-produced plasmas. Kinetic calculations are compared to experiments …

We measure a record 96±2.5% specularly reflected energy fraction from an interaction with
a plasma mirror (PM) surface preionized by a controlled prepulse and find that the optical …

Laser ablation of an aluminum target as a function of the pulse duration, for fluences up to
30 J/cm 2 and a wavelength of 0.8 μ m, is investigated by means of a fluid code. For a given …

The angle and polarization dependence of optical emission and reflection from dense
aluminum plasmas produced in the release wave of a strong shock is investigated …