Kitzler M., Gräfe S. (Eds.) Ultrafast Dynamics Driven by Intense Light Pulses. From Atoms to Solids, from Lasers to Intense X-rays

Springer International Publishing, 2016. — 379 p. — (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 86). — ISBN: 978-3-319-20173-3 (eBook), 978-3-319-20172-6 (Hardcover).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.Strong-Field Induced Atomic Excitation and Kinematics
Few-Cycle-Laser-Pulse Induced and Assisted Processes in Atoms, Molecules, and Nanostructures
Angular Streaking for Strong Field Ionization of Molecules—Attosecond Physics Without Attosecond Pulses
Control of Ultrafast Electron Dynamics with Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses: From Atoms to Solids
XUV Attosecond Photoionization and Related Ultrafast Processes in Diatomic and Large Molecules
Attosecond Electron Spectroscopy in Molecules
Controlling Atomic Photoabsorption by Intense Lasers in the Attosecond Time Domain
Photoionization Time Delays
Ultrafast Nanoplasmonic Photoemission
Highly Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optical Phenomena in Metallic Nanostructures
Attosecond XUV Pulses and Surface Plasmon Polaritons: Two Case Studies
Ultrafast Control of Strong-Field Electron Dynamics in Solids
Atomic and Molecular Systems Under Intense X-Ray Radiation
Probing Molecular Photoexcited Dynamics by Soft X-Rays