Part I High-Intensity Laser Sources
High-Energy Pulse Compression Techniques ........................ 3
Sandro De Silvestri, Mauro Nisoli, Giuseppe Sansone,
Salvatore Stagira, Caterina Vozzi, and Orazio Svelto
Ultrafast Laser Amplifier Systems .............................. 17
Gilles Cheriaux
Optical Parametric Amplification Techniques .................... 35
Ian N. Ross
Carrier-Envelope Phase of Ultrashort Pulses .................... 61
Steven T. Cundiff, Ferenc Krausz, and Takao Fuji
Free-Electron Lasers - High-Intensity X-Ray Sources ............ 91
J. Feldhaus and B. Sonntag
Part II Laser-Matter Interaction - Nonrelativistic
Numerical Methods in Strong Field Physics ..................... 111
Kenneth J. Schafer
Principles of Single Atom Physics: High-Order Harmonic
Generation, Above-Threshold Ionization and Non-Sequential
Ionization .................................................... 147
Maciej Lewenstein and Anne L'Huillier
Ionization of Small Molecules by Strong Laser Fields .......... 185
Hiromichi Niikura, V.R. Bhardwaj, F. Legare,
I.V. Litvinyuk, P.W. Dooley, D.M. Rayner, M.
Yu Ivanov, P.B. Corkum, and D.M. Villeneuve
Probing Molecular Structure and Dynamics by Laser-Driven
Electron Recollisions ......................................... 209
J.P. Marangos, S. Baker, J.S. Robinson, R. Torres,
J.W.G. Tisch, C.C. Chirila, M. Lein, R. Velotta,
and С. Altucci
Intense Laser Interaction with Noble Gas Clusters ............. 225
Lora Ramunno, Thomas Brabec, and Vladimir Krainov
Laser-Induced Optical Breakdown in Solids ..................... 243
Matthias Lenzner and Wolfgang Rudolph
Part III Laser-Driven X-ray Sources
Macroscopic Effects in High-Order Harmonic Generation ......... 261
Pascal Salieres and Ivan Christov
Attosecond Pulses: Generation, Detection, and Applications .... 281
Armin Scrinzi and Harm Geert Muller
High-Order Harmonics from Plasma Surfaces ..................... 301
Alexander Tarasevitch, Clemens Wiinsche, and
Dietrich von derLinde
Table-Top X-Ray Lasers in Short Laser Pulse and Discharge
Driven Plasmas ................................................ 321
P.V. Nickles, K.A. Janulewicz, and W. Sandner
Time-Resolved X-Ray Science: Emergence of X-Ray Beams
Using Laser Systems ........................................... 379
Antoine Rousse and Kim Та Phuoc
Atomic Multi-photon Interaction with Intense Short-
Wavelength Fields ............................................. 391
F.H.M. Faisal
Part IV Laser-Matter Interaction - Relativistic
Relativistic Laser-Plasma Physics ............................. 427
Alexander Pukhov
High-Density Plasma Laser Interaction ......................... 455
Heidi Reinholz and Thomas Bornath
Relativistic Laser-Atom Physics ............................... 477
Alfred Maquet, Richard Taieb, and Valerie Veniard
Tests of QED with Intense Lasers .............................. 497
Adrian C. Melissinos
Nuclear Physics with Intense Lasers ........................... 519
Ravi Singhal, Peter Norreys, and Hideaki Habara
Part V Intense Field Physics with Heavy Ions
Ion-Generated, Attosecond Pulses: Interaction with Atoms
and Comparison to Femtosecond Laser Fields .................... 539
Joachim Ullrich and Alexander Voitkiv
Index ......................................................... 569
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