A comprehensive guide to a new technology for enabling
high-performance spectroscopy and laser sources
Resonance Enhancement in Laser-Produced Plasmas offers a guide to the
most recent findings in the newly emerged field of resonance-enhanced
high-order harmonic generation using the laser pulses propagating
through the narrow and extended laser-produced plasma plumes. The
author--a noted expert in the field--presents an introduction and the
theory that underpin the roles of resonances in harmonic generation. The
book also contains a review of the most advanced methods of plasma
harmonics generation at the conditions of coincidence of some harmonics,
autoionizing states, and some ionic transitions possessing strong
oscillator strengths.
Comprehensive in scope, this text clearly demonstrates the importance of
resonance-enhanced nonlinear optical effects leading to formation of
efficient sources of coherent extreme ultraviolet radiation that can be
practically applied. This important resource:
- Puts the focuses on novel applications of laser-plasma physics, such
as the development of ultrashort-wavelength coherent light sources
- Details both the theoretical and experimental aspects of higher-order
harmonic generation in laser-produced plasmas
- Contains information on early studies of resonance enhancement of
harmonics in metal-ablated plasmas
- Analyzes the drawbacks of different theories of resonant high order
harmonic generation
- Includes a discussion of the quasi-phase-matching and properties of
semiconductor plasmas
Written for researchers and students in the fields of physics, materials
science, and electrical engineering who are interested in laser physics
and optics, Resonance Enhancement in Laser-Produced Plasmas offers an
introduction to the topic and covers recent experimental studies of
various resonance processes in plasmas leading to enhancement of single
harmonic.
