Contents

## **Preface XI**

**Part 1 Femtosecond-Time-Scale Physics 1**  Chapter 1 **Magnetization Dynamic with Pulsed X Rays 3**  Christine Boeglin Chapter 2 **Electron Acceleration Using an Ultrashort Ultraintense Laser Pulse 23**  Eisuke Miura 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**  Vadim Belyaev and Anatoly Matafonov Chapter 5 **Physics of Quasi-Monoenergetic Laser-Plasma Acceleration of Electrons in the Blowout Regime 113**  Serguei Y. Kalmykov, Bradley A. Shadwick, Arnaud Beck and Erik Lefebvre 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, O. C. Norum, O. Olsen and M. Breivik Chapter 7 **Lasers in Atomic Collisions, Cold Plasma and Cold Atom Physics 169**  R. Cabrera-Trujillo, J. Jiménez-Mier and A. M. Juárez Chapter 8 **Time Resolved Spectroscopy with Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses 203** 

Enikoe Seres and Christian Spielmann

	- **Part 2 Time Resolved Laser Spectroscopy and Coherent Control Techniques 285**
