Intense Laser Phenomena and Related Subjects

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface

• Lectures

  • Nonlinear Ionization of Atoms (Short Review)

  • Resonant Multiphoton Ionization Revisited with Femtosecond Pulses

  • High-Order Harmonic Generation in Rare Gases in Intense Fields

  • Quasiresonant Coherent Multi-photon Processes with Participation of Atomic Discrete and Continuum States - Simple Models

  • Coherent Effects in the Continuum

  • Multiphoton Microwave Resonances in Rydberg Atoms

  • Multiphoton Processes in Atomic Hydrogen within the Framework of Perturbation Theory

  • Semiclassical Approach for Matrix Elements of Above Threshold Ionization

  • Semiclassical Dipole Matrix Elements of Atomic Transitions

  • Complex Quasienergies and Autoionizing Atomic States in a Strong Resonant Field of Laser Radiation

  • Multiphoton Processes in Alkaline Earth Atoms

  • Role of Autoionizing States in Multiphoton Ionization of Complex Atoms

  • Application of Hyperspherical Coordinates Method for the Description of Multiphoton Processes in Complex Atoms

  • Multiphoton Phenomena in the Field of a Strong Focused Laser Pulse

  • Nonperturbative Multiphoton Transitions in Molecules - A Coupled Equations Approach Study of LiF

  • Three-Photon Resonant Ionization and Above-Threshold Dissociation of Diatomic Molecules in Intense Laser Field

  • Non-Perturbative Approaches of Laser Interaction with Matter:From Atoms to Solids

  • Fractional Revivals of Wave Packets during the Long-Term Evolution of Highly Excited Quantum Systems

  • Major Peculiarities of Squeezed Light

  • Nonlinear Collective Plasma Interactions in Laser Multi-Photon Ionization

  • Energy Pooling Collisions in Resonantly Laser Excited Vapors