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Book Synopsis1. High-Power Laser Sources.- The Production of Petawatt Laser Pulses.- Multiterawatt Ultraviolet Lasers.- 0.27 Terawatt Laser System at 1 kHz.- Determination of the Duration of UV Femtosecond Pulses.- 2. Ultrafast Coherent UV and X-Ray Sources.- Saturated Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers by Discharge Excitation.- Phase-Locking of High-Order Harmonics to the Fundamental Field.- Soft-X-Ray Harmonics in the Water Window.- Harmonic Generation in Presence of Ionization.- The Optimisation of Soft X-Ray Laser Output.- Spectroscopic Investigations of an Optical-Field-Ionized X-Ray Lasers with a Microcapillary Target.- Guided-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in Gases: A Novel Phase-Matching Scheme for Ultrafast Pulses.- Increased Coherence Length in High-Order Harmonic Generation by a Self-Guided Beam.- 3. Novel Short Wavelength Sources.- Accelerator Based Source Development: Higher, Wider and Shorter.- A Debrisless Laser-Plasma Source for EUV and XUV Generation.- Attosecond Pulse Generation a
Table of ContentsHigh-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.
