Super-Intense Laser-Atom Physics IV

I - Multiphoton Ionization.- Stabilization.- The various causes of stabilization.- Interference stabilization.- Coherently controlled Rydberg atoms as gain medium for an x-ray laser.- On adiabatic generation of Trojan wave packets.- Photoionization and stabilization of Rydberg atoms with high values of orbital momentum.- Stability windows in ionization via Rydberg states.- Dynamics of classical system with short-range potential in an intense electromagnetic wave field.- Intense-field stabilization of atomic hydrogen: classical ensemble.- Classical mechanical theories of intense field stabilization.- General strong-field ionization and high-order ATI.- Strong field atomic dynamics.- Quantum and classical mechanics of rescattering effects in high-order ATI and HHG.- MPI of atoms in intense laser pulses.- Sturmian-Floquet calculations in hydrogen.- Electrons in strong field ionization.- Circular dichroism and related effects in multiphoton transitions.- Molecules.- Dynamics of multiphoton molecular ionization and dissociation.- Laser-induced Coulomb explosion of small linear polyatomic ions.- Small molecules in intense laser fields; is there a place for stabilization.- Single-atom and plasma processes at intensities up to 1018 W/cm2.- A time-of-flight photoelectron spectrometer for the analysis of fullerenes.- II - Multi-Electron Atoms.- Correlation effects.- Correlation and its measure.- Model two-electron atoms and ions in intense short laser pulses.- Multiply charged negative ions of hydrogen induced by a super-intense high-frequency laser field.- Floquet theory of multiphoton processes in multielectron atoms.- The correlation effects of multielectron atom in intense electromagnetic field.- Density-functional approach to atoms in strong laser pulses.- Hyperspherical coordinates approach to one-dimensional models of two-electron quantum Systems.- Coherence transfer.- Continuum-continuum Autler-Townes Splitting in calcium.- Wave packet dynamics in two-electron atoms: influence of a strongly driven core resonance.- Multiphoton multiple ionization.- Mechanism of direct double ionization of He in intense laser fields.- Non-sequential triple ionization of Ar atoms in an intense 1053nm laser field.- A new model for non-sequential ionization of Xe atoms in an ultrafast intense Ti:Sapph laser field.- III - Hard Radiation Quanta.- X-rays.- Multiphoton physics with x-rays.- Experimental studies of x-ray emission resulting from the intense irradiation of atomic Clusters.- A collinear setup for optical/x-ray cross correlation measurements based on laser-assisted Auger decay.- Two-color processes.- Two-color photoionization using high-order harmonic radiation.- Laser-assisted photoeffect at moderate intensities.- Compton scattering.- Laser-electron scattering at relativistic intensities.- Photon emission by an electron colliding with a short focused laser pulse.- High-harmonic generation.- High-harmonic generation in atoms and ions.- Optimization and applications of harmonic generation.- Time dependence of harmonic generation by a single atom.- High-order harmonic generation with a 25 femtosecond laser pulse.- Harmonic emission with elliptical Polarisation.- Polarization-depentdent one- and two-color high-harmonic generation.- IV - Coherence and Interference.- Non-linear light propagation.- Dynamics of the stimulated Raman scattering of subpicoseond laser pulse in the selfproduced plasma.- Change of the frequency spectrum of relativistically strong laser pulses during their interaction with a plasma.- Non-linear optics in plasma waveguides.- Oberservation of relativistic and charge-displacement self-channeling using x-ray fluorescence.- Quasi-steady states of ionized media in intense laser fields.- Coherence, interference and wavepackets.- Coherent control of above-threshold ionization.- Laser-induced atomic structure.- Ionization of Rydberg hydrogen by a half-cycle pulse.- Atom-atom correlations and non-locality.- Classification of lasers without inversion.- Author index.