Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VII

261 Pages·2011·4.717 MB·English

by  Farhad H. M. Faisal (auth.), Kaoru Yamanouchi, Dimitrios Charalambidis, Didier Normand (eds.)

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Professor KaoruYamanouchi Dr. DidierNormand
TheUniversityofTokyo IRAMIS,CEASaclay
DepartmentofChemistry Baˆt.524,PCNo.83
7-3-1 Hongo,Bunkyo-ku 91191Gif-sur-YvetteCedex,France
Tokyo 113-0033, Japan [email protected]
[email protected]
ProfessorDimitriosCharalambidis
UniversityofCrete
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[email protected]
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Department of Chemistry, the University of Tokyo
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Preface
We are pleased to present the seventh volume of Progress in Ultrafast Intense
LaserScience.Asthefrontiersofultrafastintenselasersciencerapidlyexpandever
outward,therecontinuestobe a growingdemandforan introductionto thisinter-
disciplinaryresearchfieldthatisatoncewidelyaccessibleandcapableofdelivering
cutting-edgedevelopments.Our series aims to respond to this call by providinga
compilationofconcisereview-stylearticleswrittenbyresearchersattheforefrontof
thisresearchfield,sothatresearcherswithdifferentbackgroundsaswellasgraduate
studentscaneasilygrasptheessentialaspects.
AsinthepreviousvolumesofPUILS,eachchapterofthisbookbeginswithan
introductorypart,inwhichaclearandconciseoverviewofthetopicanditssignif-
icanceisgiven,andmovesontoa descriptionoftheauthors’mostrecentresearch
results.Allthechaptersarepeerreviewed.Thearticlesofthisseventhvolumecover
adiverserangeoftheinterdisciplinaryresearchfield,andthetopicsmaybegrouped
intofivecategories:ionizationofatomsandmolecules(Chap.1),ultrafastresponses
ofprotonsandelectronswithin a molecule(Chaps.2 and3),molecularalignment
(Chaps. 4 and 5), high-order harmonics and attosecond pulse generation (Chaps.
6–8),andaccelerationofelectronsandionsinlaserplasmas(Chaps.9and10).
Fromthethirdvolume,thePUILSserieshasbeeneditedinliaisonwiththeactiv-
itiesoftheCenterforUltrafastIntenseLaserScience,theUniversityofTokyo,and
JILS(JapanIntenseLightFieldScienceSociety),thelatterofwhichhasalsobeen
responsibleforsponsoringtheseriesandmakingtheregularpublicationofitsvol-
umespossible.Fromthefifthvolume,theConsortiumonEducationandResearch
on Advanced Laser Science, the University of Tokyo, has joined this publication
activityasoneofthesponsoringprograms.Theserieshasalsocollaboratedsinceits
inceptionwiththeannualsymposiumseriesofISUILS(http://www.isuils.jp),which
is designed to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion at the forefront of ultrafast
intenselaserscience.
Wewouldliketotakethisopportunitytothankalltheauthorswhohavekindly
contributedtothePUILSseriesbydescribingtheirmostrecentworkatthefrontiers
of ultrafast intense laser science. We also thank the reviewers who have read the
submittedmanuscriptscarefully.Oneoftheco-editors(KY)thanksMs.ChieSakuta
forherhelpwiththeeditingprocesses.Lastbutnotleast,ourgratitudegoesoutto
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Dr. Claus Ascheron, Physics Editor of SpringerVerlag at Heidelberg, for his kind
support.
Wehopethisvolumewillconveytheexcitementofultrafastintenselaserscience
tothe readers,andstimulateinterdisciplinaryinteractionsamongresearchers,thus
pavingthewaytoexplorationsofnewfrontiers.
Tokyo KaoruYamanouchi
Heraklion DimitriosCharalambidis
Gif-sur-Yvette DidierNormand
October2010
Contents
1 Intense-FieldDiracTheoryofIonizationofHydrogen
andHydrogenicIonsinInfraredandFree-ElectronLaser
Fields........................................................................... 1
FarhadH.M.FaisalandSujataBhattacharyya
2 UltrafastHydrogenMigrationinHydrocarbonMolecules
DrivenbyIntenseLaserFields.............................................. 35
HuailiangXu,TomoyaOkino,KatsunoriNakai,
andKaoruYamanouchi
3 Controlof  -ElectronRotationsin Chiral Aromatic
MoleculesUsingIntenseLaserPulses...................................... 53
ManabuKanno,HirohikoKono,andYuichiFujimura
4 OpticallyProbedLaser-InducedField-FreeMolecular
Alignment...................................................................... 79
O.Faucher,B.Lavorel,E.Hertz,andF.Chaussard
5 Directionally Asymmetric Tunneling Ionization
and Control of Molecular Orientation
byPhase-ControlledLaserFields...........................................109
HidekiOhmura
6 HighHarmonicGenerationfromAlignedMolecules ....................127
RuxinLi,PengLiu,PengfeiWei,YuexunLi,ShitongZhao,
ZhinanZeng,andZhizhanXu
7 New MethodsForComputingHigh-OrderHarmonic
GenerationandPropagation................................................145
J.A. Pérez-Hernández,C. Hernandez-García,J. Ramos,
E.ConejeroJarque,L.Plaja,andL.Roso
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8 OntheGenerationofIntenseIsolatedAttosecondPulses
byMany-CycleLaserFields.................................................163
Paris Tzallas, EmmanouilSkantzakis, Jann E. Kruse,
andDimitriosCharalambidis
9 RelativisticLaser Plasmasfor ElectronAcceleration
andShortWavelengthRadiationGeneration.............................191
A.Pukhov,D.anderBrügge,andI.Kostyukov
10 Ion Accelerationin Subcritical Density Plasma via
InteractionofIntenseLaserPulsewithCluster-GasTarget.............225
Y.Fukuda,A.Ya.Faenov,M.Tampo,T.A.Pikuz,
T.Nakamura,M.Kando,Y.Hayashi,A.Yogo,H.Sakaki,
T.Kameshima,K.Kawase,A.S.Pirozhkov,K.Ogura,
M.Mori,T.Zh.Esirkepov,J.Koga,A.S.Boldarev,
V.A.Gasilov,A.I.Magunov,T.Yamauchi,R.Kodama,
P.R.Bolton,K.Kondo,S.Kawanishi,Y.Kato,T.Tajima,
H.Daido,andS.V.Bulanov
Index.................................................................................241
Contributors
Daniel an der Brügge Institute for Theoretical Physics I, University
ofDuesseldorf,40225Duesseldorf,Germany,[email protected]
SujataBhattacharyya IACS,Kolkata-700032,India,[email protected]
AlexeyS.Boldarev KeldyshInstituteofAppliedMathematics,RussianAcademy
ofSciences(RAS),Moscow,125047,Russia,[email protected]
PaulR.Bolton KansaiPhotonScienceInstitute(KPSI),AtomicEnergyAgency
(JAEA),Kyoto,615-0215Japan
and
Photo-MedicalResearchCenter(PMRC),AtomicEnergyAgency(JAEA),Kyoto,
615-0215Japan,[email protected]
Sergei V. Bulanov Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), Atomic Energy
Agency(JAEA),Kyoto,615-0215Japan
and
Photo-MedicalResearchCenter(PMRC),AtomicEnergyAgency(JAEA),Kyoto,
615-0215Japan
and
A.M.ProkhorovInstituteofGeneralPhysics,RussianAcademyofSciences(RAS),
119991Moscow,Russia,[email protected]
DimitriosCharalambidis InstituteofElectronicStructureandLaser,Foundation
for Research and Technology–Hellas,PO Box 1527,71110Heraklion,Crete,
Greece
and
DepartmentofPhysics,UniversityofCrete,POBox2208,71003Heraklion,Crete,
Greece,[email protected]
Frederic Chaussard LaboratoireInterdisciplinaireCARNOT de Bourgogne
(ICB),UMR5209CNRS-UniversitédeBourgogne,BP47870,21078DijonCedex,
France,[email protected]
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