Applications of High-Field and Short Wavelength Sources: Proceedings of the Optical Society of America Conference on Generation and Applications of High-Field and Short Wavelength Book

	The Production of Petawatt Laser Pulses	1
	Multiterawatt Ultraviolet Lasers	11
	0.27 Terawatt Laser System at 1 kHz	17
	Determination of the Duration of UV Femtosecond Pulses	23
	Saturated Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers by Discharge Excitation	29
	Phase-Locking of High-Order Harmonics to the Fundamental Field	39
	Soft-X-Ray Harmonics in the Water Window	45
	Harmonic Generation in Presence of Ionization	53
	The Optimisation of Soft X-Ray Laser Output	59
	Spectroscopic Investigations of an Optical-Field-Ionized X-Ray Lasers with a Microcapillary Target	65
	Guided-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in Gases: A Novel Phase-Matching Scheme for Ultrafast Pulses	71
	Increased Coherence Length in High-Order Harmonic Generation by a Self-Guided Beam	79
	Accelerator Based Source Development: Higher, Wider and Shorter	85
	A Debrisless Laser-Plasma Source for EUV and XUV Generation	93
	Attosecond Pulse Generation at Gas Ionization by Few-Optical-Cycle Laser Pulses	97
	X-Ray Emission from Rare Gas Clusters in Intense Laser Fields	103
	Hard X-Ray Emission from Femtosecond Laser Interaction in Overdense Plasmas	109
	Plasma Waveguide: Density Development and High Intensity Guiding	113
	Explosion of Atomic Clusters Heated by High Intensity, Femtosecond Laser Pulses	123
	Solid to Plasma Transition in FS-Laser-Irradiated FE: Collapse of the Spin-Orbit Gap	131
	Pressure Ionization and Density Diagnostics in Subpicosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas	135
	Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation for the Interaction between a Laser Pulse and a Metal	141
	Femtosecond Stimulation of Atomic and Nuclear Processes in High Intensity Laser Plasmas	145
	Time Resolved Optical Probing of Supersonic Ionization Fronts in Short Pulse-Solid Target Interactions	149
	Ultrafast Incoherent X-Ray Source Utilizing Ultra Thin Freely Suspended Films	155
	Barrier-Suppression Ionization of Complex Atoms and Diatomic Molecules	165
	Relativistically Self-Guided Laser-Wakefield Acceleration	171
	A Single-Beam, Ponderomotive-Optical Trap for Energetic Free Electrons	179
	Ultrafast Diffraction from Rydberg Wave Packets Using High Harmonies	185
	Backward and Multi-Echo Field Ionization by Intense Non-Envelope "Superpulses"	191
	Deconvolved Ionization Probabilities for Strong Field Ionization of Xenon	197
	Precision Tests of Laser-Tunneling Ionization Models	201
	Self-Guiding without Focusing Nonlinearity: Leaking Mode Self-Effect Due to Field-Induced Saturable Ionization	207
	Classical Theory of Nonlinear Compton Scattering and Three-Dimensional Ponderomotive Scattering	213
	The Molecular Hydrogen B-State in an Intense Light Field	223
	Electron Dynamics in the Strong Field Limit of Photoionization	229
	Intense Laser Interactions: Higher Order Resonances and Hot Electrons	237
	Influence of Relativistic Structure and Retardation in Two-Photon Transitions in Hydrogenic Systems	245
	Laser Wakefield Acceleration Experiments	251
	Femtosecond Harmonic Laser Photoemission: Physics and Chemistry	253
	Two-Photon Ionization and Three-Photon Above-Threshold Ionization of Argon	261
	Ultra-Fast Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Detected by an Averaging Mode Streak Camera	267
	Radiological Applications of Hard X-Ray Emission from a Laser-Produced Plasma	271
	Biological X-Ray Microscopy with a Compact Laser System	277
	High Harmonics as a Probe for Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas	285
	Laser-Assisted Multicolor Photoionization of Atoms with Higher Harmonics	293
	Author Index	299