Ebook: Atomic and Molecular Processes with Short Intense Laser Pulses

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Laser Pulse Shaping for State-Selective Excitation....Pages 1-9
Quantitative Measurement of the Role of Phase Fluctuations in Nonlinear Optical Absorption Processes....Pages 11-20
Multiphoton Atomic and Molecular Coherent Excitations with Ultrashort Pulse Sequences....Pages 21-32
Temporal Coherence in One-Photon Excitation of a Molecular Quasicontinuum....Pages 33-38
Interferometry in the Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Gases....Pages 39-47
Effects of Excited State Absorption on Optical Pulse Propagation....Pages 49-55
Propagation of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in an N-Level Medium....Pages 57-66
High Spectral Brightness Dye Lasers....Pages 67-74
Light-Induced Collisional Energy Transfer-Revisited....Pages 75-85
Theory of Laser-Pulse-Induced Molecular Dynamics: Gas-Phase Molecular Collisions and Adbond Dynamics....Pages 87-95
Rydberg States in Laser Fields....Pages 97-105
Wave Packets in Vibrational Motion of Sodium Dimer....Pages 107-111
Fast Fourier Transform Techniques in Numerical Simulations of Intense Pulse — Molecule Interactions....Pages 113-117
Interference in Two-Photon Absorption at High Field Crossings....Pages 119-124
Time-Resolved Electronic Raman Scattering of The Nanosecond Time Scale....Pages 125-128
Density Measurements of Hg 3P0,1,2 Excited States in a Discharge Using Saturated Laser Absorption....Pages 129-133
Above Threshold Ionization in Strong Fields and Classical Behavior of Electrons in Short Light Pulses....Pages 135-143
Above-Threshold Ionization and the Quantum Mechanics of Wiggling Electrons....Pages 145-155
Ultrashort Pulse Multiphoton Ionization of Xenon at Moderate Pressures....Pages 157-163
Discussion of Limiting Deposition Power Densities in Laser Target Materials....Pages 165-171
Above Threshold Ionization in Xe with a CO2 Laser....Pages 173-176
Resonance Ionization Processes in Small Molecules....Pages 177-186
Third Harmonic Generation and Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy....Pages 187-194
Experimental Investigation of Multiphoton Free-Free Transitions....Pages 195-199
Theory of Multiphoton Ionization....Pages 201-205
Electron Energy Spectrum after Multiphoton Ionisation....Pages 207-217
All-Order Above Threshold Ionization and Related Problems....Pages 219-225
Numerical Simulations of Multiphoton Processes in Many Electron Atoms....Pages 227-233
Numerical ATI Wave Functions and their Implications....Pages 235-242
Ionization of One-Dimensional Hydrogen Atoms with Intense Microwave and Laser Pulses....Pages 243-252
Above Threshold Photodissociation with Intense IR Lasers — a Coupled Equations Study....Pages 253-262
Laser Energy Absorption Due to Local Plasmon Excitation in Complex Atoms....Pages 263-271
Atomic Hydrogen in Intense, High-Frequency Laser Fields....Pages 273-283
A Contribution Towards the Theory of Multichannel Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms....Pages 285-295
Intense-Field Radiative Processes in the Coulomb Continuum....Pages 297-308
Adiabatic Separability of Dressed Molecular Systems....Pages 309-315
The Interaction of Intense Picosecond Infrared Pulses with Isolated Molecules....Pages 317-321
Coherent Excitation of Polyatomic Molecules by Ultrashort Laser Pulses — a Model Calculation....Pages 323-327
Picosecond Dynamics of Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution in Jet-Cooled Molecules....Pages 329-336
Subpicosecond UV/IR Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 337-346
Vibrational Predissociation Dynamics of the Nitric Oxide Dimer....Pages 347-351
Multiphoton Absorption Fragmentation Mechanisms of CH3I by Picosecond and Nanosecond Laser Mass Spectrometry....Pages 353-357
Laser Catalysis and Control of Chemical Reactions....Pages 359-366
Making Molecules Dance: Optimal Control of Molecular Motion....Pages 367-370
Quantum Dynamics of Short Pulse Vibrational Overtone Spectroscopy and Photochemistry....Pages 371-375
IR Laser Excitation in Molecules: Chaos and Diffusive Energy Growth....Pages 377-387
Rotational Coherences in the IR Excitation of Molecular Rotations at High Intensities....Pages 389-396
Chaotic Dynamics, Polyatomic Molecules, Multiphoton Dissociation and All That....Pages 397-406
Theoretical Study on the Possibility of Local Mode(LM) Excitation in Polyatomics by Frequency-Modulated(FM) Pulse Lasers....Pages 407-416
Multiphoton Excitation of Bond Modes....Pages 417-430
Temporal and Steady State Transition Probabilities for Molecules Interacting with Oscillating and Static Electric Fields and Surfaces....Pages 431-439
Some Theoretical Aspects of Infrared Molecular Lasers Pumped by Electronic-to-Vibrational Energy Transfer....Pages 441-445
Some Intense Field Laser-Molecule Theoretical Techniques....Pages 447-451
Back Matter....Pages 453-460
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