Introduction to Laser-Plasma Interactions by Pierre MichelEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 423 Pages | ISBN : 3031234235 | 30.2 MB
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of laser-plasma interactions (LPI), based on a graduate course taught by the author. The emphasis is on high-energy-density physics (HEDP) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF), with a comprehensive description of the propagation, absorption, nonlinear effects and parametric instabilities of high energy lasers in plasmas.