Ultrafast Dynamics Driven By Intense Light Pulses: From Atoms To Solids, From Lasers To Intense X-rays (springer Series On Atomic, Optical, And Plasma Physics)
by Markus Kitzler /
2015 / English / PDF
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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.
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.