Interaction with Solids: Overdense Plasmas
The following sections are included:
Ionization
Collisional Absorption
Helmholtz equations
Normal skin effect
Heating and Thermal Conduction
Hydrodynamics
Collisionless Absorption
Resonance absorption
Vacuum heating (Brunel mechanism)
Anomalous skin effect
Sheath inverse-bremsstrahlung
Relativistic j × B heating
Absorption measurements
Hot Electron Generation
Long pulses
Short pulses
Measurements of hot electron temperature
Ion Acceleration
Long pulse blow-off
Forward acceleration
Hole Boring
Magnetic Field Generation
Hot Electron Transport
Inhibition by electric fields
Magnetic field effects
Relativistic currents
Self-Induced Transparency
High Harmonic Generation from Solid Surfaces
The moving mirror model
Numerical simulations
Experiments on harmonic generation
Exercises