Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of research on femto- and attosecond dynamical processes
- Covers applications of ultrafast lasers to the study of physical systems, in particular atomic and molecular systems
- Presents amongst others few-cycle light-field controlled laser pulses over attosecond table-top XUV/X-ray sources to intense X-ray pulses from free-electron lasers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 86)
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This book documents the recent vivid developments in the research field of ultrashort intense light pulses for probing and controlling ultrafast dynamics. The recent fascinating results in studying and controlling ultrafast dynamics in ever more complicated systems such as (bio-)molecules and structures of meso- to macroscopic sizes on ever shorter time-scales are presented. The book is written by some of the most eminent experimental and theoretical experts in the field. It covers the new groundbreaking research directions that were opened by the availability of new light sources such as fully controlled intense laser fields with durations down to a single oscillation cycle, short-wavelength laser-driven attosecond pulses and intense X-ray pulses from the upcoming free electron lasers. These light sources allowed the investigation of dynamics in atoms, molecules, clusters, on surfaces and very recently also in nanostructures and solids in new regimes of parameters which, in turn, led to the identification of completely new dynamics and methods for controlling it. Example topics covered by this book include the study of ultrafast processes in large molecules using attosecond pulses, control of ultrafast electron dynamics in solids with shaped femtosecond laser pulses, light-driven ultrafast plasmonic processes on surfaces and in nanostructures as well as research on atomic and molecular systems under intense X-ray radiation. This book is equally helpful for people who would like to step into this field (e.g. young researchers), for whom it provides a broad introduction, as well as for already experienced researchers who may enjoy the exhaustive discussion that covers the research on essentially all currently studied objects and with all available ultrafast pulse sources.
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Keywords
- Atomic excitation and kinematics
- Atomic photoabsorption by intense lasers
- Attosecond electron spectroscopy
- Attosecond laser and X-ray science
- Laser-driven dynamics in solids
- Measurement of ultrafast dynamics
- Shaped femtosecond laser pulses
- Strong field ionization of molecules
- Ultrafast nanoplasmonic photoemission
- XUV attosecond photoionization
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Control of Electronic Processes with Strong Laser Fields
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Attosecond Pulses for Inducing and Probing Electronic Processes
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Surfaces, Nanostructures and Solids in Strong Laser Fields
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Atoms and Molecules Driven and Probed by Intense X-Ray Pulses
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ultrafast Dynamics Driven by Intense Light Pulses
Book Subtitle: From Atoms to Solids, from Lasers to Intense X-rays
Editors: Markus Kitzler, Stefanie Gräfe
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20173-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20172-6Published: 05 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37356-0Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20173-3Published: 24 July 2015
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 379
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 87 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Classical Electrodynamics