CLCO4
LanguageENG
PublishYear2011
publishCompany
CRC Press
EISBN
9789814267809
PISBN
9789814241816
edition
1
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This is the first comprehensive treatment of the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with solids at nonrelativistic intensity. It connects phenomena from the subtle atomic motion on the nanoscale to the generation of extreme pressure and temperature in the interaction zone confined inside a solid. The femtosecond laser-matter interaction has already found numerous applications in industry, medicine, and materials science. However, there is no consensus on the interpretation of related phenomena. With mathematics kept to a minimum, this is a highly engaging and readable treatment for students and researchers in science and engineering.
The book avoids complex mathematical formulae, and hence the content is accessible to nontechnical readers. Useful summaries after each chapter provide compressed information for quick estimates of major parameters in planned or performed experiments. The book connects the basic physics of femtosecond laser-solid interactions to a broad range of applications. Throught the text, basic assumptions are derived from the first principles, and new results and ideas are presented. From such analyses, a qualitative and predictive framework for the field emerges, the impact of which on applications is also discussed.
- Front Cover
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Frequently Used Symbols
- 1. Basics of Ultra-Short Laser-Matter Interactions
- 2. Atomic Motion Preceding a Phase Transition: Birth, Life and Death of Phonons
- 3. Ultra-Fast Disordering by fs-Lasers: Superheating Prior the Entropy Catastrophe
- 4. Ablation of Solids
- 5. Ultra-Short Laser-Matter Interaction Confined Inside a Bulk of Transparent Solid
- 6. Applications of Ultra-Short Laser–Matter Interactions
- 7. Conclusion Remarks: Future Directions
- Appendix A: Effective Collision Rates (Electron–Phonon Momentum Exchange Rates) for some Metals from Optical, Static Conductivity and Diffusion Experiments
- Appendix B: Temperature-Dependent Bismuth Properties from the Optical Experiments in Equilibrium
- Appendix C: Time-Dependent Diffracted Intensity of the Probe X-Ray Beam in Equilibrium (The Debye–Waller Factor) and Non-Equilibrium Conditions
- Appendix D: Melting Parameters of Metals and Dielectrics in Equilibrium
- Appendix E: Empirical Pseudo-Chemical Inter-Atomic Potential (Abell, 1985)
- Appendix F: Ablation of Metals
- Appendix G: Micro-Explosion in Transparent Solids: Material Parameters and Ionization Losses
- Bibliography
Collected by
- University of Cambridge
- National Library of China
- UCB
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