Note continued:7.3.3.Stabilization --7.3.4.Strong Field Approximation --7.3.5.Few-Cycle Above-Threshold Ionization --7.3.6.Simple Man's Theory --7.3.7.Interference Effects --7.3.8.High-Order Harmonic Generation --7.3.9.Strong Field Approximation for High-Order Harmonic Generation: the Lewenstein Model --7.3.10.Harmonic Generation Selection Rules --7.4.Strong Laser-Atom Interaction Beyond the Single Active Electron --7.4.1.Nonsequential Ionization --References --8.Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction --8.1.Essential Relativity --8.1.1.Four Vectors --8.1.2.Momentum and Kinetic Energy --8.1.3.Scalars, Contravariant and Covariant Quantities --8.1.4.Ideal Fluid Dynamics --8.1.5.Kinetic Theory --8.1.6.Center of Momentum and Mass Frame of Noninteracing Particles --8.1.7.Moment Equations --8.1.8.Covariant Electrodynamics --8.2.Particle Acceleration in an Intense Laser Field --8.2.1.Particle Acceleration in Vacuum --8.2.2.Wakefield and Bubble Acceleration --8.3.Collisionless Absorption in Overdense Matter and Clusters --8.3.1.Computer Simulations of Collisionless Laser-Target Interaction --8.3.2.Search for Collisionless Absorption --8.3.3.Collisionless Absorption by Anharmonic Resonance --8.4.Some Relativity of Relevance in Practice --8.4.1.Overview --8.4.2.Critical Density Increase for Fast Ignition --8.4.3.Relativistic Self-Focusing --References.
Note continued:4.2.1.High Amplitude Electron Plasma Waves at Moderate Density Gradients --4.2.2.Resonance Absorption by Nonlinear Electron Plasma Waves --4.3.Hot Electron Generation --4.3.1.Acceleration of Electrons by an Intense Smooth Langmuir Wave --4.3.2.Particle Acceleration by a Discontinuous Langmuir Wave --4.3.3.Vlasov Simulations and Experiments --4.4.Wavebreaking --4.4.1.Hydrodynamic Wavebreaking --4.4.2.Kinetic Theory of Wavebreaking --References --5.Ponderomotive Force and Nonresonant Effects --5.1.Ponderomotive Force on a Single Particle --5.1.1.Conservation of the Cycle-Averaged Energy --5.1.2.Standard Perturbative Derivation of the Force --5.1.3.Rigorous Relativistic Treatment --5.2.Collective Ponderomotive Force Density --5.2.1.Bulk Force --5.2.2.Force Originating from Induced Fluctuations --5.2.3.Global Momentum Conservation --5.3.Nonresonant Ponderomotive Effects --5.3.1.Ablation Pressure --5.3.2.Filamentation and Self-Focusing --5.3.3.Modulational Instability --References --6.Resonant Ponderomotive Effects --6.1.Tools --6.1.1.Waves, Energy Densities and Wave Pressure --6.1.2.Doppler Shifts --6.2.Instabilities Driven by Wave Pressure --6.2.1.Resonant Ponderomotive Coupling --6.2.2.Unstable Configurations --6.2.3.Growth Rates --6.3.Parametric Amplification of Pulses --6.3.1.Slowly Varying Amplitudes --6.3.2.Quasi-Particle Conservation and Manley-Rowe Relations --6.3.3.Light Scattering at Relativistic Intensities --References --7.Intense Laser-Atom Interaction --7.1.Atomic Units --7.2.Atoms in Strong Static Electric Fields --7.2.1.Separation of the Schrodinger Equation --7.2.2.Tunneling Ionization --7.3.Atoms in Strong Laser Fields --7.3.1.Floquet Theory and Dressed States --7.3.2.Non-Hermitian Floquet Theory --