High-Field Science

  • Toshiki Tajima
  • Kunioki Mima
  • Hector Baldis
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-viii
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  2. Fast Ignitor and High Field Science

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Fast Ignition and Related Plasma Physics
      Kunioki Mima
      Pages 3-27
    3. Pulse Expansion and Soliton-Like Propagation of Ultrahigh Intense Short Pulse Laser
      H. Sakagami, K. Mima
      Pages 29-38

  3. Dense Plasmas

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 39-39
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    2. Equation of State Measurements at Extreme Pressures Using Laser-Driven Shocks
      R. Cauble, L. B. Da Silva, P. M. Celliers, G. W. Collins, D. M. Gold
      Pages 41-50
    3. Dusty Plasmas and Coulomb Crystals
      S. Hamaguchi
      Pages 51-57

  4. Laser-Matter Interaction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 59-59
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    2. Experimental Identification of “Vacuum Heating” at Femtosecond-Laser-Irradiated Metal Surfaces
      M. K. Grimes, Y.-S. Lee, A. R. Rundquist, M. C. Downer
      Pages 61-72
    3. Second-Harmonic Generation and Non-Resonant Absorption in Sub-Picosecond Laser-Solid Interactions
      Charles T. Hansen, Peter E. Young, Scott C. Wilks
      Pages 73-81
    4. Strong Coupling between Clusters and Radiation
      Y. Kishimoto, T. Tajima
      Pages 83-96

  5. X-Rays

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 97-97
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    2. Nonlinear Vacuum Electron-Photon Interactions at Relativistic Intensities
      F. V. Hartemann, H. A. Baldis, E. C. Landahl, N. C. Luhmann Jr., T. Tajima, A. L. Troha et al.
      Pages 99-114
    3. Experimental observation of nonlinear Thomson scattering
      Donald Umstadter, Szuyuan Chen, Anatoly Maksimchuk
      Pages 115-125

  6. Photonic Acceleration and High Energy Phenoma

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 127-127
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    2. Ultrashort Electron Bunches from Laser-Plasma Accelerators
      E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, W. P. Leemans
      Pages 129-143
    3. High Energy Electrons, Positrons and Photonuclear Reactions in Petawatt Laser-Solid Experiments
      T. E. Cowan, A. W. Hunt, J. Johnson, M. D. Perry, W. Fountain, S. Hatchett et al.
      Pages 145-156
    4. Pair Production by Strong Laser Field in High Density Plasmas
      Toshihiro Taguchi, Kunioki Mima
      Pages 157-170
    5. Relativistic Lasers and High Energy Astrophysics
      Y. Takahashi, L. W. Hillman, T. Tajima
      Pages 171-221
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 223-227
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About this book

Introduction

High Field Science is a proceedings volume from a meeting at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and contains papers from the top experts in the fields of ultraintense laser technology, laser fusion energy, high energy laser electron acceleration, bright X-ray sources by lasers, laboratory laser astrophysics, and applications to relativity, high density and high energy physics.

Keywords

Absorption X-ray astrophysics laser relativity

Editors and affiliations

  • Toshiki Tajima
    • 1
  • Kunioki Mima
    • 2
  • Hector Baldis
    • 2
  1. 1.Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUniversity of CaliforniaLivermoreUSA
  2. 2.Institute of Laser EngineeringOsaka UniversityOsakaJapan

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1299-8
  • Copyright Information Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York 2000
  • Publisher Name Springer, Boston, MA
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-1-4613-5485-7
  • Online ISBN 978-1-4615-1299-8
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