The presented review summarizes nearly two decades of studies on femtosecond laser-
induced breakdown spectrometry (fs-LIBS). When an ultra-short (< 1 ps) laser pulse is used …

A high-temperature plasma is created when an intense laser pulse is focused onto the
surface of a solid. An ultrafast pulse of x-ray radiation is emitted from such a plasma when …

Abstract A 0.5-TW, 120-fs Ti: sapphire laser, when focused to greater than 10 18 W/cm 2
onto a solid target, creates a plasma which emits radiation that extends beyond 1 meV. The …

We have performed a detailed quantitative study of the intense electron pulse produced by
nonlinear absorption during ultrafast laser-solid interaction at near normal incidence. The …

The transport of fast electrons generated by 1 ps, 1 μ m wavelength laser pulses focused to
spot diameters of 20 μ m and peak intensities of up to 2× 10 18 W cm− 2 on to solid …

The absorption of 250-fs KrF laser pulses incident on solid targets of aluminum and gold has
been measured as a function of polarization and angle of incidence for the intensity range of …

This paper presents parameter studies to find the optimum conditions for the production of a
cold highly ionized plasma suitable for the generation of recombination x-ray lasers. The …

Progress in technology and so-ciety continually places new demands on analytical science
and more powerful and informative methods need to be developed. One among them is …

After a review of the basic theory of quantitative spectroscopy of atoms and incompletely
stripped ions immersed in plasmas, applications to diagnostics and modeling of dense …

The original sheath inverse bremsstrahlung model [PJ Catto and RM More, Phys. Fluids 20,
704 (1977)] is modified by including the v× B term in the equation of motion, as the …