| Preface | p. xi |
| Basic concepts | p. 1 |
| High-intensity laser-atom physics | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| High-intensity lasers | p. 5 |
| Multiphoton ionization and above-threshold ionization | p. 10 |
| Harmonic generation and attosecond pulses | p. 21 |
| Laser-assisted electron-atom collisions | p. 29 |
| Theory of laser-atom interactions | p. 37 |
| Classical description of a laser field | p. 37 |
| Classical non-relativistic electron dynamics in a laser field | p. 52 |
| Time-dependent Schrödinger equation | p. 57 |
| Gauge transformations | p. 62 |
| The Kramers transformation | p. 65 |
| The evolution operator | p. 66 |
| Gordon-Volkov wave functions | p. 68 |
| Non-dipole effects | p. 71 |
| Relativistic effects | p. 75 |
| Theoretical methods | p. 91 |
| Perturbation theory | p. 93 |
| Time-dependent perturbation theory for the evolution operator | p. 93 |
| Method of variation of the constants | p. 125 |
| Semi-perturbative methods | p. 137 |
| Floquet theory | p. 141 |
| Hermitian Floquet theory | p. 142 |
| Bound-bound Floquet dynamics | p. 155 |
| Floquet dressed continuum states | p. 170 |
| Non-Hermitian Floquet theory | p. 179 |
| Floquet theory in the Kramers-Henneberger frame | p. 191 |
| Sturmian-Floquet theory | p. 194 |
| R-matrix-Floquet theory | p. 196 |
| Numerical integration of the wave equations | p. 218 |
| Discrete-time propagators, representations of the wave function and choice of gauge | p. 219 |
| Calculation of the observables | p. 232 |
| One- and two-dimensional studies of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation | p. 236 |
| Time-dependent Schrödinger equation for atomic hydrogen | p. 241 |
| Time-dependent Schrodinger equation for complex atoms | p. 247 |
| Non-dipole effects | p. 258 |
| Relativistic effects | p. 260 |
| The low-frequency regime | p. 267 |
| Quasi-static ionization | p. 268 |
| Multiphoton processes in the strong-field approximation | p. 281 |
| Multiphoton direct ionization | p. 288 |
| High harmonic generation | p. 305 |
| Recollision ionization | p. 320 |
| Non-dipole effects | p. 323 |
| The high-frequency regime | p. 334 |
| High-frequency Floquet theory | p. 334 |
| Structure of atomic hydrogen in intense, high-frequency laser fields | p. 340 |
| Atomic stabilization | p. 350 |
| Multiphoton atomic physics | p. 375 |
| Multiphoton ionization | p. 377 |
| Multiphoton single ionization | p. 377 |
| Multiphoton double ionization | p. 398 |
| Harmonic generation and attosecond pulses | p. 418 |
| Experiments | p. 418 |
| Calculations | p. 422 |
| Properties of harmonics and applications | p. 439 |
| Attosecond pulses | p. 444 |
| Laser-assisted electron-atom collisions | p. 466 |
| Experiments | p. 468 |
| Laser-assisted potential scattering | p. 472 |
| Laser-assisted collisions of electrons with real atoms | p. 500 |
| Appendix: Atomic units and conversion factors | p. 550 |
| Author index | p. 552 |
| Subject index | p. 564 |
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