**Meet the editor**

Anatoli V. Andreev is a Professor of Physics (Physics Department, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University). He is specialist in the field of quantum optics, x-ray optics, atomic spectroscopy, relativistic quantum mechanics. He has written over 150 scientific publications, including the books:


Contents

**Preface IX** 

Christine Boeglin

Chapter 2 **Electron Acceleration Using** 

Eisuke Miura

**Part 1 Femtosecond-Time-Scale Physics 1** 

Chapter 1 **Magnetization Dynamic with Pulsed X Rays 3** 

**an Ultrashort Ultraintense Laser Pulse 23** 

Chapter 3 **Coherent Laser Manipulation of Ultracold Molecules 53**  Elena Kuznetsova, Robin Côté and S. F. Yelin

Chapter 4 **Fast Charged Particles and Super-Strong Magnetic Fields Generated by Intense Laser Target Interaction 87** 

**Acceleration of Electrons in the Blowout Regime 113** 

Vadim Belyaev and Anatoly Matafonov

Chapter 5 **Physics of Quasi-Monoenergetic Laser-Plasma** 

O. C. Norum, O. Olsen and M. Breivik

**with Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses 203**  Enikoe Seres and Christian Spielmann

Arnaud Beck and Erik Lefebvre

Chapter 7 **Lasers in Atomic Collisions, Cold Plasma and Cold Atom Physics 169** 

Chapter 8 **Time Resolved Spectroscopy** 

Serguei Y. Kalmykov, Bradley A. Shadwick,

Chapter 6 **Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy of Semiconductors - Physical Processes and Methods of Analysis 139**  T. Brudevoll, A. K. Storebo, O. Skaaring, C. N. Kirkemo,

R. Cabrera-Trujillo, J. Jiménez-Mier and A. M. Juárez
