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Short pulse laser-plasma interactions

Reviews

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• Campbell, E. M. 1992. The physics of megajoule, large-scale and ultrafast short-scale laser plasmas. Phys. Fluids B, 4, 3781-3799.
• Gamaliy, E. G. 1994. Ultrashort powerful laser matter interaction: Physical problems, models and computations. Laser and Part. Beams, 12, 185-208.
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• Joshi, C. J., & Corkum, P. B. 1995. Interactions of ultra-intense laser light with matter. Phys. Today, 48, 36-43.
• Luther-Davies, B., Gamalii, E. G., Wang, Y., Rode, A. V., & Tikhonchuk, V. T. 1992. Matter in ultrastrong laser fields. Sov. J. Quantum Electron., 22, 289-325.
• Mourou, G., & Umstadter, D. 1992. Development and applications of compact high-intensity lasers. Phys. Fluids B, 4, 2315-2325.
• Murnane, M. M., Kapteyn, H. C., Rosen, M. D., & Falcone, R. W. 1991. Ultrafast X-ray pulses from laser-produced plasmas. Science, 251, 531-536.

Interactions with overdense (solid-density) plasmas

Short pulse X-ray generation

• Applications of X Rays Generated from Lasers and Other Bright Sources Kyrala,G.A., Gauthier,J-C. J. (eds) SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3157, Aug 1997, San Diego, CA, USA. ISBN: 0-8194-2579-6
• Audebert, P., Geindre, J. P., Gauthier, J. C., Mysyrowicz, A., Chambaret, J. P., & Antonetti, A. 1992. High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of a 80fs laser-produced plasma. Europhys. Lett., 19, 189-194.
• Audebert, P., Geindre, J. P., Rousse, A., Gauthier, J. C., Mysyrowicz, A., Grillon, G., & Antonetti, A. 1994. K-shell emission dynamics of Be-like to He-like ions from a 100 fs laser-produced aluminium plasma. J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 27, 3303-3314.
• Kieffer, J. C., Chaker, M., Matte, J. P., Pépin, H., Côté, C. Y., Beaudoin, Y., Johnston, T. W., Cien, C. Y., Coe, S., Mourou, G., & Peyrusse, O. 1993. Ultrafast x-ray sources. Phys. Fluids B, 5, 2676-2681.
• Kmetec, J. D., Gordon, C. L., Macklin, J. J., Lemoff, B. E., Brown, G. S., & Harris, S. E. 1992. MeV X-ray generation with a femtosecond laser. Phys. Rev. Lett., 68, 1527-1530.
• Kuhlke, D., Herpes, U., & von der Linde, D. 1987. Soft X-ray emission from subpicosecond laser-produced plasmas. Appl. Phys. Lett, 50, 1785.
• Milchberg, H. M., Lyubomirsky, I., & III, C. G. Durfee. 1991. Factors controlling the x-ray pulse emission from an intense femtosecond laser heated solid. Phys. Rev. Lett., 67, 2654-2657.
• Murnane, M. M., Kapteyn, H. C., Rosen, M. D., & Falcone, R. W. 1991. Ultrafast X-ray pulses from laser-produced plasmas. Science, 251, 531-536.
• Rousse, A., Audebert, P., Geindre, J. P., Falliès, F., Gauthier, J. C., Mysyrowicz, A., Grillon, G., & Antonetti, A. 1994. Efficient K x-ray source from femtosecond laser-produced plasmas. Phys. Rev. E, 50, 2200-2207.
• Schnürer, M., Kalashnikov, M.P., Nickles, P.V., Schlegel, Th., Sandner, W., Demchenko, N., Nolte, R., & Ambrosi, P. 1995. Hard X-ray emission above from intense short pulse laser plasmas. Phys. Plasmas, 2, 3106-3110.
• Shepherd, R., Booth, R., Price, D., Bowers, M, Swan, D., Bonlie, J., Young, B., Dunn, J., White, B., & Stewart, R. 1994. Ultrafast x-ray streak camera for use in ultrashort laser-produced plasma research. Rev. Sci. Instr., 66, 719-721.
• Soom, B., Chen, H., Fisher, Y., & Meyerhofer, D. D. 1993. Strong emission in picosecond laser-plasma interactions. J. Appl. Phys., 74, 5372-5377.
• Stearns, D. G., Landen, O. L., Campbell, E. M., & Scofield, J. H. 1988. Generation of ultrashort x-ray pulses. Phys. Rev. A, 37, 1684-1690.
• Teubner, U., Wülker, C., & E. Förster, W. Theobald. 1995. X-ray spectra from high-intensity subpicosecond laser produced plasmas. Phys. Plasmas, 2, 972-981.
• Workman, J., Maksimchuk, A., Liu, X., Ellenberger, U., Coe, J. S., Chien, C.-Y., & Umstadter, D. 1995. Control of bright picosecond X-ray emission from intense subpicosecond laser-plasma interactions. Phys. Rev. Lett., 75, 2324-2327.
• Rundquist et al.: 1998, Science, 29 May. The first practical, coherent soft x ray source (Univ. of Michigan)

Propagation of intense laser pulses in plasmas

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• Borisov, A. B., Borovskiy, A. V., Shiryaev, O. B., Korobkin, V. V., Prokhorov, A. M., Solem, J. C., Luk, T., Boyer, K., & Rhodes, C. K. 1992b. Relativistic and charge-displacement self-channeling of intense ultrashort laser pulses in plasmas. Phys. Rev. A, 45, 5830-5845.
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• Bulanov, S. V., Pegoraro, F., & Pukhov, A. 1995. Two-dimensional regimes of self-focusing, wake-field generation and induced focusing of a short intense laser pulse in an underdense plasma. Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 710-713.
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• Decker, C. D., Mori, W. B., & Katsouleas, T. 1994. Particle-in-cell simulations of Raman forward scattering from short-pulse high-intensity lasers. Phys. Rev. E, 50, R3338-R3341.
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Super-dense plasmas

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Laser-plasma interactions (long pulse)

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Femtosecond laser technology and diagnostics

The world record for the shortest pulse length is 3.8fs (from an amplifier), achieved at the Technical University of Wien (December 1997).  This finally gives a 6fs pulse length output from the  laser.  (Thanks to Tilia Stingl from TUW for this information)

Last Revised : October 28 1998

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• Yamakawa, K., Shiraga, H., & Kato, Y. 1991. Prepulse-free 30-TW 1-ps Nd:glass laser. Optics Lett., 16, 1593-1595.

Books

• Laser Plasma Theory and Simulation (Laser Science and Technology : An International Handbook, Vol 17) by Kunioki Mima (Editor), Hector A. Baldis, Akio Nishiguchi

High-intensity femtosecond laser-matter interaction research

• LENS, Florence, Italy
• LIF-ENSTA, LOA ENSTA; Palaiseau, France
  • Femtosecond laser group (ELF)
  • Lasers, Plasmas, X-Rays (LPX)
  • Laser Matter Interaction (ILM)
• NIF High Energy Lasers
  • X-Ray Laser Sources
• Los Alamos Inertial Confinment Fusion
• Perspectives on Plasmas - the 4th state of matter
• LLNL X-Division
• The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) University of Rochester, USA.
• Oxford, High Power Laser Group
• Plasma and Laser Interaction Physics (PLIP) , Queen's University of Belfast, UK.
• Bibliography of short pulse laser-plasma interactions. Jan 1997 (by Paul Gibbon)
• Imperial College Plasma Physics Group, Laser Plasma Interaction, London, UK. July 31, 1999 (also here)
• INRS-Energie et Materiaux, Activités Interaction laser-matière, Varennes, Canada. 02-03-1999
• Center for Ultrafast Science, Michigan, USA. June 23, 1999
• Central Laser Facility, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK. 09/06/99
• Institute for Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka, Japan (Laser Applications)
• Laboratoire Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI), ECOLE Polytechique, Paris
• Centre de Physique Theorique
• Fast Ignitor Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Imperial College Plasma Physics Group, London
• INRS-Energie et Materiaux, Varennes, Canada
• IFAM - Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics , Pisa, Italy
• Institute for Optics and Quantumelectronics, Jena: Short pulse laser interactions group, X-ray optics group
• LOA - Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France
• Lund Laser Centre (LLC), Lund, Sweden
• Max-Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics und Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Berlin
• Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching: Laser Plasma and High-Power Laser Group, Theoretical Quantum Optics Group.
• Nonlinear Optics Group, Australia National University, Canberra
• SPAM (Service des Photons, Atomes et Molecules), CEA-Saclay , Saclay, France.
• TMR Short Pulse X-Ray Network, AMOLF, Holland; Official EU site.
• SILASI TMR Network - Super Intense Laser-Solid Interaction, Darmstadt, Germany
• Ultraviolet Laser Facility (ULF), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Heraklion
• Wilson·Squier Group, Ultra fast x-rays, San Diego
• A. Pukhov's Virtual Laser Plasma Laboratory

Conferences

• 1997 Applications of High Field and Short Wavelength Sources VII March, 1997 Santa Fe, New Mexico (Optical Society of America)
• Ultraintense Laser Interactions and Applications - 1 Elounda, Crete, Greece, May 7 - 11, 1999
• First International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA `99) University Bordeaux 1, 12-17 September 1999 (formerly the International Conference on Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena (LIRPP))
• High Power Lasers in Energy Engineering (HPL02) Nov 1, 1999. Osaka University, Japan
• SPIE Proceeding on Lasers
• Rocca, J.J., Da Silva, L.B. (eds) : 1999, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications III (to appear in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3776)
• Andreev, A.A., Vavilov, S.I. (eds) : 1998, Laser Optics '98: Superstrong Laser Fields and Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3683 ISBN: 0-8194-3157-5, June 1998, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Boreisho, A.S., Baranov, G.A. (eds) : 1998, XII International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High-Power Laser Conference SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3574 ISBN: 0-8194-3039-0, September 1998, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Mei, S.-S., Truesdell, K.A. (eds) : 1998, High-Power Lasers: Solid State, Gas, Excimer, and Other Advanced Lasers II SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3549 ISBN: 0-8194-3010-2, September 1998, Beijing, China
• Basu, S. (ed) : 1998, High-Power Lasers SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3264 ISBN: 0-8194-2703-9, Jan 1998, San Jose, CA, USA
• Rocca, J.J., Da Silva, L.B. (eds) : 1997, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications II SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3156 ISBN: 0-8194-2578-8, August 1997, San Diego, CA, USA
• Hall, D.R., Baker, H.J. (eds) : 1997, XI International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High-Power Laser Conference SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3092 ISBN: 0-8194-2507-9, August 1996, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Farrukh, U.O., Basu, S. (eds) : 1997, Modeling and Simulation of Higher-Power Laser Systems IV SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2989 ISBN: 0-8194-2400-5, Feb 1997, San Jose, CA, USA (see also)
• Mei, S.-S., Truesdell, K.A. (eds) : 1996, High-Power Lasers: Solid State, Gas, Excimer, and Other Advanced Lasers SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2889 ISBN: 0-8194-2290-8, Nov 1996, Beijing, China
• Andreev,A.L., Kocharovskaya,O., Novgorod,N., Mandel, P. (eds): 1996, Coherent Phenomena and Amplification without Inversion SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2798 ISBN: 0-8194-2186-3, July 1995, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Osborne, M.R., Sayegh, G.. (eds) : 1996, High-Power Lasers: Applications and Emerging Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2789 ISBN: 0-8194-2175-8, June 1996, Micropolis, Besancon, France
• Letardi,T., Weber,H., (eds) : 1996, High-Power Lasers: Gas and Solid State Lasers SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2788 ISBN: 0-8194-2174-X, June 1996, Micropolis, Besancon, France
• Rohlena,K., Kodymova,J., Kralikova,B. : 1996, Fourth International Workshop on Iodine Lasers and Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2767 ISBN: 0-8194-2151-0, Sept, 1995, Trest' Castle, Czech Republic
• White, W.E., Reitze, D.H. (eds) : 1996, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses III SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2701 ISBN: 0-8194-2075-1, Feb 1996, San Jose, CA, USA
• Rocca, J.J., Hagelstein, P.L. (eds) : 1995, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2520 ISBN: 0-8194-1879-X, July 1995, San Diego, CA, USA
• Barty, C.P., Wise, F.V. (eds) : 1995, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2377 ISBN: 0-8194-1724-6, Feb 1995, San Jose, CA, USA
• Bohrer, M., Letardi, T., Schuoecker, D., Weber, H. (eds) : 1994, High-Power Gas and Solid State Lasers SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2206 ISBN: 0-8194-1507-3, April 1994, Vienna, Austria
• Trebino, R.P., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) : 1994, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2116 ISBN: 0-8194-1409-3, Jan 1994, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Piche, M., Pace,P.V. (eds) : 1994, Mode-locked and Other Ultrashort Laser Designs, Amplifiers, and Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2041 ISBN: 0-8194-1300-3, Aug 1993, Quebec City, Canada
• Suckewer, S., (ed) : 1994, Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers II SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2012 ISBN: 0-8194-1261-9, July 1993, San Diego, CA, USA
• Paisner, J.A., (ed) : 1993, Short-Pulse High-Intensity Lasers and Applications III SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1860 ISBN: 0-8194-1087-X, Jan 1993, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Alam, S. : 1999, Lasers without Inversion and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency SPIE ISBN 0-8194-3040-4

Ultrafast lasers

• Ultrafast Optics 1999 Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland July 12-16, 1999
• Ultrafast Laser Physics Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland

People

• Kunioki Mima, Yasukazu Izawa, T. Yamanaka Osaka Univ., Japan
• Takashi Arisawa, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Japan
• Katsumi Midorikawa, RIKEN -- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan
• Takatoshi Shindoh, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan
• G. Mourou, D. Umstadter, Univ. of Michigan, USA
• Gerald L. Kulcinski, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison, USA
• Mike Perry, William Hogan, Bruce E. Warner, Michael H. Key, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA
• Jean-Claude M. Diels, Univ. of New Mexico, USA
• Martin C. Richardson, CREOL/Univ. of Central Florida, USA
• G. Jamelot, Univ. Paris-Sud, France
• Mysyrowicz, A. : LOA (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee), Palaiseau, France
• Victor V. Apollonov, General Physics Institute, Russia
• Yury Resunkov, Research Institute for Complex Testing of Optoelectronic Devices, Russia

PLASMA Group

• NIFS Home Page
• JT-60U Home Page JT-60U
• High Density Energy Section (ETL)
• ILE Home Page University of Osaka
• KEK PS user-group Welcome Page KEKPF
• Welcome to plasma.elec.okayama-u.ac.jp University of Okayama
• Beams '96 Beams '96
• Plasma on Internet iWorld www list

Other Research

• NUHEPL Home Page University of Nagoya, NHE
• Faculty of science, Kanazawa Univ.
• Particle Beam Laboratory
• Toyama ENT Department

Fusion

• Fusion on the WWW

Optics

• The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• The Optical Society of America (OSA), Applied Optics, Journal of The Optical Society of America, and Journal of Lightwave Technology.
• Laser Focus World
• Air Force Research Laboratory
• CREOL