Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science

1. Vibrational and Electronic Excitation of Molecules by Short-Pulse Strong Laser Fields
George N. Gibson, Li Fang, Bradley Moser

2. Coherent Lattice Oscillations in Solids and Their Optical Control
Kunie Ishioka, Oleg V. Misochko

3. Coherent Lattice Oscillations in Solids and Their Optical Control
Kunie Ishioka, Oleg V. Misochko

4. Heterodyne Interferometry Using High-Order Harmonic Generation in Mixed Gases
Tsuneto Kanai, Eiji J. Takahashi, Yasuo Nabekawa, Katsumi Midorikawa

5. Propagation of Ultrashort Pulses in Condensed Media
Aditya K. Dharmadhikari, Deepak Mathur

6. On Lightning Control Using Lasers
Jérôme Kasparian, Jean-Pierre Wolf

7. Advances in X-Ray Studies of Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions
Leonida A. Gizzi

8. High Field Photonics in Laser Plasmas: Propagation Studies, Electron Acceleration, and Nuclear Activation With Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulses
Antonio Giulietti, Andrea Gamucci

9. Laser Plasma Acceleration and Related Electromagnetic Sources
Danilo Giulietti, Luca Labate

10. Laser-Driven Ion Generation with Short, Intense, and High Contrast Pulses
Tiberio Ceccotti, Anna Lévy, Philippe Martin

Keywords: Physics, Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices, Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry, Physical Chemistry