High-Field Science

Fast Ignitor and High Field Science.- 1. Fast Ignition and Related Plasma Physics.- 2. Pulse Expansion and Soliton-Like Propagation of Ultrahigh intense Short Pulse Laser.- Dense Plasmas.- 3. Equation of State Measurements at Extreme Pressures Using Laser-Driven Shocks.- 4. Dusty Plasmas and Coulomb Crystals.- Laser-Matter Interaction.- 5. Experimental Indentification of “Vacuum Heating” at Femtosecond-Laser- Irradiated Metal Surfaces.- 6. Second-Harmonic Generation and Non-Resonant Absorption in Sub-Picosecond Laser-Solid Interactions.- 7. Strong Coupling Between Clusters and Radiation.- X-RAYS.- 8. Nonlinear Vacuum electron-Photon Interactions at Relativistic Intensities.- 9. Experimental Observation of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering.- Photonic Acceleration and High Energy Phenomena.- 10. Ultrashort Electron Bunches from Laser- Plasma Accelerators.- 11. High Energy Electrons, Positrons, and Photonuclear Reactions in Petawatt Laser-Solid Experiments.- 12. Pair Production by Strong Laser Field in High Density Plasmas.- 13. Relativistic Lasers and High Energy Astrophysics: Gamma Ray Bursts and Highest Energy Acceleration.- Author Index.