A ASE Lasers, 96 Attosecond Pulses Isolated, 18–20, 26–30 Trains Of, 18

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A Exawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies ASE lasers, 96 (XCELS), 112 Attosecond pulses Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), 112, 149 isolated, 18–20, 26–30 trains of, 18–20, 26–28 F Axion-like particle, 143 Femtosecond pulses, 77 Filament, 96, 97 B Background noise, 148 Filamentation, 77, 90, 98 Bond softening, 18, 23–25, 27 Fluorescence, 98, 101 Born-Infeld theory, 142 Four-wave mixing, 108, 151 Bunkin-Fedorov approximation (BFA), 2, 5 Free-free transition, 1 Furry picture, 125 C Carrier-envelope phase, 18, 20–30 G Classical intensity parameter, 115 Gaussian beams, 123 CO2, 103 Gouy phase, 78, 87 Coherence emissions, 96, 101, 103, 105 Coherence property, 104 Continuum, 79 H Critical ﬁeld of QED, 113 Harmonic, 98, 102 Cross-phase modulation, 86 High Power laser Energy Research facility (HiPER), 112 D Highly-charged ions, 112 + D2 , 34 potential curve of, 40 I wave-packet of, 38 Isolated attosecond pulses (IAP), 50, 53, 54, Delay-KER spectrogram, 41, 42, 44 56–58 Diaphragm, 83, 84 Intense laser ﬁelds, 111 Dirac-Schwinger equation, 117 Interferometric autocorrelation, 34, 36 Dispersion relation, 85 Interferometric fringe, 35 Ionization, 66 E Isolated attosecond pulses, 50 Electron localization, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29 Electron self-interaction, 111, 125 Electron-positron virtual pair, 138 K Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian, 117 Keldysh parameter, 72

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Kinetic energy release (KER), 34 Plasma defocussing, 86 KER spectrum, 41 Polarization, 80 kinetic energy release, 34 Ponderomotive energy, 72 Kroll-Watson approximation (KWA), 3, 5, 10, Population inversion, 96, 106, 107 11, 14 Propagation equations, 86 PVLAS experiment, 141 L Lagrangian density, 142 Q Landau-Lifshitz equation, 113 Quantum electrodynamics, 111, 137 Laser polarization, 78 Quantum fluctuations, 116 Laser wakefield accelerators, 112 Quantum many-photon-emission spectra, 119 Laser-assisted electron diffraction (LAED), 1, Quantum non-linearity parameter, 115 12–15 Quasi-momentum, 116 Laser-assisted electron scattering (LAES), 1–15 R Light by light diffraction, 146 Radiation reaction, 113 Light Pseudoscalar Boson, 143 Radiative corrections, 111, 125 Light Scalar Boson, 143 Radiatively corrected Volkov states, 111, 125 Light-cone coordinates, 126 Rayleigh length, 77 Linac coherent light source, 66, 68, 71 Relativistic electrons, 111 Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation, 113 Reservoir, 79 Lorentz-covariant, 142 S M Schwinger limit, 138 Mass operator, 117 Second harmonic, 105 Matterless double slit, 117 Seed amplification, 106 Mechanisms, 105, 107 Self-focusing, 90 Mini-charged particles, 142 Si beam splitter, 39, 40 Multiphoton ionization, 87 Single slit experiment, 142 N Spin dynamics, 125 Spin four-vector, 125 N2, 98 Nonlinear Fourier transform spectroscopy Spontaneous pair production, 138 (NFTS), 34, 35, 40 Strong laser pulse, 111 Nonlinear Compton scattering, 116 Nonlinear quantum effects, 111, 125 T Nonlinear Thomson scattering, 119 Third harmonic, 78, 79 Nonlinear terms, 144 Thomson radiation, 119 Time-dependent perturbation theory, 44 O Optical Kerr effect, 77, 86 U Ultra-intense laser pulses, 151 P Ultra-short laser pulses, 151 Pair-creation, 116 Peccei-Quinn theory, 143 V Perturbation theory, 65, 67–71, 73, 74 Vacuum birefringence, 141 Petawatt, 137 Vacuum polarization, 140 Petawatt laser systems, 112 Vacuum-polarization effects, 117 Phase shift, 145 Vibrational period, 34, 38 Photoionization, 66–72 Vibrational wave-packet dynamics, 34, 38 Photon-photon scattering, 139 Volkov states, 111, 125