Table of Contents

1. High-Power Laser Sources.- The Production of Petawatt Laser Pulses.- Multiterawatt Ultraviolet Lasers.- 0.27 Terawatt Laser System at 1 kHz.- Determination of the Duration of UV Femtosecond Pulses.- 2. Ultrafast Coherent UV and X-Ray Sources.- Saturated Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers by Discharge Excitation.- Phase-Locking of High-Order Harmonics to the Fundamental Field.- Soft-X-Ray Harmonics in the Water Window.- Harmonic Generation in Presence of Ionization.- The Optimisation of Soft X-Ray Laser Output.- Spectroscopic Investigations of an Optical-Field-Ionized X-Ray Lasers with a Microcapillary Target.- Guided-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in Gases: A Novel Phase-Matching Scheme for Ultrafast Pulses.- Increased Coherence Length in High-Order Harmonic Generation by a Self-Guided Beam.- 3. Novel Short Wavelength Sources.- Accelerator Based Source Development: Higher, Wider and Shorter.- A Debrisless Laser-Plasma Source for EUV and XUV Generation.- Attosecond Pulse Generation at Gas Ionization by Few-Optical-Cycle Laser Pulses.- X-Ray Emission from Rare Gas Clusters in Intense Laser Fields.- Hard X-Ray Emission from Femtosecond Laser Interaction in Overdense Plasmas.- 4. Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Plasma Interactions.- Plasma Waveguide: Density Development and High Intensity Guiding.- Explosion of Atomic Clusters Heated by High Intensity, Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Solid to Plasma Transition in FS-Laser-Irradiated FE: Collapse of the Spin-Orbit Gap.- Pressure Ionization and Density Diagnostics in Subpicosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation for the Interaction between a Laser Pulse and a Metal.- Femtosecond Stimulation of Atomic and Nuclear Processes in High Intensity Laser Plasmas.- Time Resolved Optical Probing of Supersonic Ionization Fronts in Short Pulse-Solid Target Interactions.- Ultrafast Incoherent X-Ray Source Utilizing Ultra Thin Freely Suspended Films.- 5. Strong Field Interactions.- Barrier-Suppression Ionization of Complex Atoms and Diatomic Molecules.- Relativistically Self-Guided Laser-Wakefield Acceleration.- A Single-Beam, Ponderomotive-Optical Trap for Energetic Free Electrons.- Ultrafast Diffraction from Rydberg Wave Packets Using High Harmonics.- Backward and Multi-Echo Field Ionization by Intense Non-Envelope “Superpulses”.- Deconvolved Ionization Probabilities for Strong Field Ionization of Xenon.- Precision Tests of Laser-Tunneling Ionization Models.- Self-Guiding without Focusing Nonlinearity: Leaking Mode Self-Effect Due to Field-Induced Saturable Ionization.- Classical Theory of Nonlinear Compton Scattering and Three-Dimensional Ponderomotive Scattering.- The Molecular Hydrogen B-State in an Intense Light Field.- Electron Dynamics in the Strong Field Limit of Photoionization.- Intense Laser Interactions: Higher Order Resonances and Hot Electrons.- Influence of Relativistic Structure and Retardation in Two-Photon Transitions in Hydrogenic Systems.- Laser Wakefield Acceleration Experiments.- 6. Applications of Short Wavelength Sources.- Femtosecond Harmonic Laser Photoemission: Physics and Chemistry.- Two-Photon Ionization and Three-Photon Above-Threshold Ionization of Argon.- Ultra-Fast Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Detected by an Averaging Mode Streak Camera.- Radiological Applications of Hard X-Ray Emission from a Laser-Produced Plasma.- Biological X-Ray Microscopy with a Compact Laser System.- High Harmonics as a Probe for Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Laser-Assisted Multicolor Photoionization of Atoms with Higher Harmonics.- Author Index.