Title High Power Laser-Matter Interaction Author(s) Mulser, Peter;Bauer, Dieter Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. Description XII, 416 p. 122 illus : online resource Abstract Note 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 ISBN,Price 9783540460657 Keyword(s) 1. CONDENSED MATTER 2. CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - SPRINGER 5. ENGINEERING 6. Engineering, general 7. LASERS 8. MICROSCOPY 9. Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices 10. PHOTONICS 11. PLASMA (IONIZED GASES) 12. PLASMA PHYSICS 13. QUANTUM OPTICS 14. SPECTROSCOPY 15. Spectroscopy and Microscopy Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I05996     On Shelf