Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VII

The PUILS series delivers up-to-date reviews of progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, a newly emerging interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics, molecular science, and optical science, which has been stimulated by the

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chemical physics Series Editors: A. W. Castleman, Jr. J. P. Toennies K. Yamanouchi W. Zinth The purpose of this series is to provide comprehensive up-to-date monographs in both well established disciplines and emerging research areas within the broad f ields of chemical physics and physical chemistry. The books deal with both fundamental science and applications, and may have either a theoretical or an experimental emphasis. They are aimed primarily at researchers and graduate students in chemical physics and related f ields.

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Kaoru Yamanouchi Dimitrios Charalambidis Didier Normand Editors

Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science Volume VII With 121 Figures

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Professor Kaoru Yamanouchi

Dr. Didier Normand

The University of Tokyo Department of Chemistry 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033, Japan [email protected]

IRAMIS, CEA Saclay Bˆat. 524, PC No. 83 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France [email protected]

Professor Dimitrios Charalambidis University of Crete Department of Physics PO Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion, Greece [email protected]

Series Editors:

Professor A.W. Castleman, Jr. Department of Chemistry, the Pennsylvania State University 152 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Professor J.P. Toennies Max-Planck-Institut f¨ur Str¨omungsforschung Bunsenstrasse 10, 37073 G¨ottingen, Germany

Professor K. Yamanouchi Department of Chemistry, the University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Professor W. Zinth Universit¨at M¨unchen, Institut f¨ur Medizinische Optik ¨ Ottingerstr. 67, 80538 M¨unchen, Germany

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Preface

We are pleased to present the seventh