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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