Plasma at High Temperature and Density - Applications and Implications of Laser-Plasma Interaction

This advanced textbook on fundamental macroscopic plasma physics emphasizes the nonlinear and relativistic effects due to laser-plasma interactions. Experiments with lasers of high intensity helped to discover new quantum effects and the longitudinal components of optical radiation in vacuum, and this in turn led to an extension of basic plasma physics, which is presented here together with its impact on classical topics such as instabilities, solitons, resonance absorpption, etc. The reader will also find sections on energy problems and nuclear fusion.
Neue Effekte aus Experimenten mit Lasern hoher Intensität haben die Grundlagen der Plasmaphysik modifiziert. In diesem fortgeschrittenen Lehrbuch wird die Theorie zusammen mit Experimenten und Anwendungen (z.B. bei Energieproblemen) dargestellt, wobei die nichtlinearen und relativistischen Effekte der Laser-Plasma-Wechselwirkung betont werden.

Product details

• Authors: Heinrich Hora
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1991
• EAN: 9783540543121
• ISBN: 978-3-540-54312-1
• No. of pages: 442
• Weight: 872 g
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, New Series m
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics