Applications of High-Field and Short Wavelength Sources / Edition 1

by Louis DiMauro, Margret Murnane, Anne L'Huillier

Overview

The Optical Society of America Conference on Applications of High Fields and Short Wavelength Sources, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from March 20-22, 1997, was an exceptionally exciting conference. This conference was the seventh in a series of topical conferences, held every two years, which are devoted to the generation and application of high field and short wavelength sources. The meeting was truly international in scope, with equal participation from both within and outside of the US. In the past two years, there has been dramatic progress in both laser and x-ray coher­ ent sources, both fundamental and applied. The 1997 meeting highlighted these advances, which are summarized in sections 1 and 2 of this volume. Terawatt-class lasers are now avail­ able in the UV or at high repetition rates. Michael Perry (LLNL) presented a keynote talk on petawatt class lasers and their applications in inertial confinement fusion, while Jorge Rocca (Colorado State University) presented a keynote talk on tabletop soft-x-ray lasers. Genera­ tion and measurement techniques are becoming very sophisticated throughout the UV and x­ ray region of the spectrum, and coherent sources have been extended to wavelengths below 30A. Phase control in the x-ray region is also now possible, and new phase-matching schemes in the UV have been experimentally demonstrated. It is clear that a new field of x-ray nonlinear optics will deveiop rapidly over the next few years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306459092
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	08/31/1998
Series:	Applied Mathematics; 215
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

High-Power Laser Sources: Design and Performance of the Petawatt Laser; M.D. Perry, et al. Multiterawatt Ultraviolet Lasers; F.G. Omenetto, et al. Ultrafast Coherent UV and X-Ray Sources: Saturated Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers by Discharge Excitation; J.J. Rocca, et al. Phase-Locking of High-Order Harmonics to the Fundamental Field; M.B. Gaarde, et al. Novel Short Wavelength Sources: Accelerator Based Source Development: Higher, Wider and Shorter; E.D. Johnson. A Debrisless Laser-Plasma Source for EUV and XUV Generation; C.M. DePriest, et al. Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Plasma Interactions: Plasma Waveguide; Density Development and High Intensity Guiding; T.R. Clark, et al. Explosion of Atomic Clusters Heated by High Intensity, Femtosecond Laser Pulses; T. Ditmire, et al. Strong Field Interactions: Barrier-Suppression Ionization of Complex Atoms and Diatomic Molecules; V.P. Krainov. Relativistically Self-Guided Laser Wakefield Acceleration; R. Wagner, D. Umstadter. Applications of Short Wavelength Sources: Femtosecond Harmonic Laser Photoemission: Physics and Chemistry; R.A. Haight. 35 Additional Articles. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Proceedings of the Optical Society of America Conference held March 1997, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Forty-six papers represent advances in the areas of high-powered laser sources, ultrafast coherent UV and X- ray sources, novel short wavelength sources, ultrashort-pulse laser plasma interactions, strong field interactions, and applications of short wavelength sources. Some examples of topics include multiterawatt ultraviolet lasers; harmonic generation in presence of ionization; x-ray emission from rare gas clusters in intense laser fields; femtosecond stimulation of atomic and nuclear processes in high intensity laser plasmas; electron dynamics in the strong field limit of photoionization; and biological x-ray microscopy with a compact laser system. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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