The evolution of large atomic clusters exposed to a super-intense ultrashort laser pulse is
considered. Cluster excitation results from the interaction of its electron subsystem with the …

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

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 …

Introduction and handbook to high-power laser-matter interaction, laser generated plasma,
nonlinear waves, particle acceleration, nonlinear optics, nonlinear dynamics, radiation …

With the advent of ultrashort high intensity laser pulses, laser absorption during the laser–
solid interactions has received significant attention over the last two decades since it is …

In the electron-driven fast-ignition (FI) approach to inertial confinement fusion, petawatt laser
pulses are required to generate MeV electrons that deposit several tens of kilojoules in the …

The original sheath inverse bremsstrahlung model [PJ Catto and RM More, Phys. Fluids 20,
704 (1977)] is modified by including the v× B term in the equation of motion, as the …

With the rapid development and continuously improving technology of subpicosecond laser
pulses generation, 1 new problems are now being considered. During the interaction with …

We review studies of superintense laser interactions with solid targets where the generation
of propagating surface plasmons (or surface waves) plays a key role. These studies include …

The shot-to-shot reflectance of high-intensity laser light is studied as a function of both the
number of laser shots and laser fluence in multipulse ablation of a metal when the irradiated …