Progress in ultrafast intense laser science [electronic resource]. Volume VII : with 121 figures / Kaoru Yamanouchi, Dimitrios Charalambidis, Didier Normand, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yamanouchi, Kaoru.

Charalambidis, Dimitrios.

Series:

Springer series in chemical physics ; v. 100.

Springer series in chemical physics, 0172-6218 ; 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laser pulses, Ultrashort.

Femtosecond lasers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Springer, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The PUILS series delivers up-to-date reviews of progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, a newly emerging interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics, molecular science, and optical science, which has been stimulated by the recent developments in ultrafast laser technologies. Each volume compiles peer-reviewed chapters authored by researchers at the forefront of each their own subfields of UILS. Every chapter begins with an overview of the topics to be discussed, so that researchers unfamiliar to the subfield, as well as graduate students, can grasp the importance and attractions of the research topic at hand; these are followed by reports of cutting-edge discoveries. This seventh volume covers a broad range of topics from this interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the ionization of atoms and molecules, ultrafast responses of protons and electrons within a molecule, molecular alignment, high-order harmonics and attosecond pulse generation, and acceleration of electrons and ions in laser plasmas.

Contents:

""Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science ""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Chapter 1: Intense-Field Dirac Theory of Ionization of Hydrogen and Hydrogenic Ions in Infrared and Free-Electron Laser Fields""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Relativistic Theory of Intense-Field Processes""; ""1.2.1 The Initial and Final Rest-Interaction Hamiltonians""; ""1.2.2 Relativistic Volkov Solutions""; ""1.2.3 Volkov�Feynman Propagator""; ""1.2.4 Floquet Representation of Relativistic Volkov Solutions""; ""1.2.5 Floquet Representation of Volkov�Feynman Propagator""

""1.2.6 Dirac Wavefunction of the Interacting System""""1.3 Relativistic Ionization Amplitudes""; ""1.4 Analytic Evaluations""; ""1.4.1 Covariant Expressions for Ground-State Dirac Wavefunction and Its Fourier Transform""; ""1.4.2 Explicit Formulas: Spin-Specific Ionization Amplitudes and Rates""; ""1.4.2.1 Explicit Ionization Amplitudes""; ""1.4.3 Spin-Specific Ionization Rates""; ""1.4.3.1 Special Polarizations""; ""1.4.4 The Unpolarized Rate of Ionization""; ""1.5 Applications""; ""1.5.1 Ionization Rate: Energy Distribution""; ""1.5.2 Ionization Rate: Angular Distribution""

""1.5.3 Total Ionization Rates: Intensity Dependence""""1.5.4 Spin Dependence of Ionization Currents""; ""1.5.4.1 Spin-Symmetric Transitions: Angular Distributions""; ""1.5.4.2 Spin-Flip Transitions: Angular Distributions""; ""1.5.5 Spin Asymmetry""; ""1.5.5.1 Role of Retardation or Finite Photon Momentum""; ""1.5.5.2 External Control of the Spin Currents""; ""1.5.6 Charge-State Z Dependence and an Anomalous Effect""; ""1.5.6.1 Total Ionization Rates Vs. Z""; ""1.5.6.2 Energy and Angular Distributions Vs. Z""; ""1.6 Summary""; ""References""

""Chapter 2: Ultrafast Hydrogen Migration in Hydrocarbon Molecules Driven by Intense Laser Fields""""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Coincidence Momentum Imaging""; ""2.3 Evidences for Hydrogen Migration in Two-Body Coulomb Explosion""; ""2.4 Momentum Correlation Maps and Proton Maps for Tracing Ultrafast Hydrogen Migration""; ""2.4.1 Momentum Correlation Maps""; ""2.4.2 Proton Maps""; ""2.5 Tracing Ultrafast Hydrogen Migration in Real-Time by Pump-Probe CMI""; ""2.6 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Control of -Electron Rotations in Chiral Aromatic Molecules Using Intense Laser Pulses""

""3.1 Introduction""""3.2 Molecular Symmetry and Angular Momentum Eigenstates""; ""3.2.1 Angular Momentum Eigenstates: Complex and Real Orbitals""; ""3.2.2 Molecular Symmetry and Angular Momentum Eigenstates""; ""3.3 Laser Control of -Electron Rotation Within a Frozen-Nuclei Model""; ""3.3.1 Effective Hamiltonian Formalism""; ""3.3.2 Time Evolution of -Electron WPs""; ""3.3.3 Generation Scheme for Approximate Angular Momentum Eigenstates""; ""3.3.4 Single-Pulse Control""; ""3.3.5 Pump-Dump Control""; ""3.4 Optimal Control of Unidirectional -Electron Rotation""

""3.4.1 Optimal Control Theory""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-642-18327-1

OCLC:

731516019