The advent of ultraintense laser pulses generated by the technique of chirped pulse
amplification (CPA) along with the development of high-fluence laser materials has opened …

Laser excitation of nanometer-sized atomic and molecular clusters offers various
opportunities to explore and control ultrafast many-particle dynamics. Whereas weak laser …

Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started
to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser …

We review the phenonomena which occur in multiphoton physics when the electric field of
the applied laser radiation becomes comparable with the Coulomb field strength seen by an …

As a form of matter intermediate between molecules and bulk solids, atomic clusters have
been much studied. Light-induced processes in clusters can lead to photo-fragmentation …

Efficient conversion of electromagnetic energy to particle energy is of fundamental
importance in many areas of physics. A promising avenue for producing matter with …

The evolution of large atomic clusters exposed to a super-intense ultrashort laser pulse is
considered. Cluster excitation results from the interaction of its electron subsystem with the …

Intense radiation from lasers has opened up many new areas of research in physics and
chemistry, and has revolutionized optical technology. So far, most work in the field of …

Femtosecond laser pulses have proven to provide valuable insight into the dynamics of
microscopic systems by using pump–probe techniques. Applied to atomic clusters even a …

We have measured the energy absorption efficiency of high intensity, picosecond laser
pulses in low density gases composed of large atomic clusters. We find that, though the …