Overview: A comprehensive textbook introducing a booming field.Author is one of the most renowned experts in this area.Can be used either as a course text or for self study.Includes problems and solutionsThis book offers an introduction to the booming field of high-power laser-matter interaction. It covers the heating of matter to super-high temperatures and pressures, novel schemes of fast particle acceleration, matter far from thermal equilibrium, stimulated radiation scattering, relativistic optics, strong field QED, as well as relevant applications, such as extreme states of matter, contro
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