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Astrophysical Lasers

Author : Vladilen Letokhov
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199548277
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Astrophysical Lasers written by Vladilen Letokhov and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in modern radio astronomy led to the discovery of space masers in the microwave range, and it became a powerful tool for studies of interstellar star-forming molecular clouds. Progress in observational astronomy, particularly with ground-based huge telescopes and the space-based Hubble Space Telescope, has led to recent discoveries of space lasers in the optical range. These operate in gas condensations in the vicinity of the mysterious star Eta Carinae (one of the most luminous and massive stars of our Galaxy). Both maser and laser effects, first demonstrated under laboratory conditions, have now been discovered to occur under natural conditions in space too. This book describes consistently the elements of laser science, astrophysical plasmas, modern astronomical observation techniques, and the fundamentals and properties of astrophysical lasers. A book with such an interdisciplinary scope has not been available to date. The book will also be useful for a wider audience interested in modern developments of the natural sciences and technology.

Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics

Author : Nuno C. Santos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540754857
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics by : Nuno C. Santos

Download or read book Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics written by Nuno C. Santos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the use of high-precision/resolution spectroscopy is closely connected to the ability to collect a large number of photons, the scientific domains using this technique benefit tremendously from the use of 8-meter class telescopes and will fully exploit the tremendous gain provided by future Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). This volume comprehensively covers the astrophysical and technical aspects of high-precision spectroscopy with an outlook to future developments.

Laser Spectroscopy

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9814478598
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules

Author : Kirk Madison
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814590185
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules written by Kirk Madison and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to present review articles describing the latest theoretical and experimental developments in the field of cold atoms and molecules. Our hope is that this series will promote research by both highlighting recent breakthroughs and by outlining some of the most promising research directions in the field. Contents:Degenerate Quantum Gases of Strontium (Simon Stellmer, Florian Schreck and Thomas C Killian)Fermi Gases with Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling (Jing Zhang, Hui Hu, Xia-Ji Liu and Han Pu)The Mott Transition in a Bose Gas Measured Through Time of Flight (K. Jiménez-García and I B Spielman)One-Dimensional Photonic Band Gaps in Optical Lattices (Marina Samoylova, Nicola Piovella, Michael Holynski, Philippe Wilhelm Courteille and Romain Bachelard)Cold and Hot Atomic Vapors: A Testbed for Astrophysics? (Q Baudouin, W Guerin and R Kaiser)Nonlinear Dynamics of Atom-Molecule Conversion (Li-Bin Fu and Jie Liu)Quantum Metrology with Cold Atoms (Jiahao Huang, Shuyuan Wu, Honghua Zhong and Chaohong Lee) Readership: Research scientists including graduate students and upper level undergraduate students. Key Features:This annual volume is unique among other scientific reviews in that it specifically treats the latest and most significant topics and advances in the field of cold atoms and molecules each yearIt is comprised of articles from prominent authors who are established leaders in the fieldKeywords:Atomic Physics;Molecule Physics;Optical Physics;Low Temperature;Ultracold

Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

Author : N. Ageorges
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401596247
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy written by N. Ageorges and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptive optics allows the theoretical limit of angular resolution to be achieved from a large telescope, despite the presence of turbulence. Thus an eight meter class telescope, such as one of the four in the Very Large Telescope operated by ESO in Chile, will in future be routinely capable of an angular resolution of almost 0.01 arcsec, compared tot he present resolution of about 0.5 arcsec for conventional imaging in good condition. All the world's major telescopes either have adaptive optics or are in the process of building AO systems. It turns out that a reasonable fraction of the sky can be observed using adaptive optics, with moderately good imaging quality, provided imaging in done in the near IR. To move out of the near IR, with its relatively poor angular resolution, astronomers need a laser guide star. There is a layer of Na atoms at approximately 90 km altitude that can be excited by a laser to produce such a source, or Rayleigh scattering can be employed lower in the atmosphere. But the production and use of laser guide stars is not trivial, and the key issues determining their successful implementation are discussed here, including the physics of the Na atom, the cone effect, tilt determination, sky coverage, and numerous potential astronomical applications.

Maser Sources in Astrophysics

Author : Malcolm Gray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521879809
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Maser Sources in Astrophysics written by Malcolm Gray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for postgraduates and researchers, this is an up-to-date survey of astrophysical maser sources and their use as astronomical tools.

Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications

Author : Paul McKenna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319000381
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications written by Paul McKenna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications covers the fundamental and applied aspects of high power laser-plasma physics. With an internationally renowned team of authors, the book broadens the knowledge of young researchers working in high power laser-plasma science by providing them with a thorough pedagogical grounding in the interaction of laser radiation with matter, laser-plasma accelerators, and inertial confinement fusion. The text is organised such that the theoretical foundations of the subject are discussed first, in Part I. In Part II, topics in the area of high energy density physics are covered. Parts III and IV deal with the applications to inertial confinement fusion and as a driver of particle and radiation sources, respectively. Finally, Part V describes the principle diagnostic, targetry, and computational approaches used in the field. This book is designed to give students a thorough foundation in the fundamental physics of laser-plasma interactions. It will also provide readers with knowledge of the latest research trends and elucidate future exciting challenges in laser-plasma science.

Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free Control

Author : Hansjörg Dittus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540343776
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free Control written by Hansjörg Dittus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by international experts, this book explores the possibilities for the next 20 years in conducting gravitational experiments in space that would make the most of the new and much-improved existing capabilities. They start from the premise that over the next decade the gravitational physics community will benefit from dramatic improvements in many technologies critical to the tests of gravity. This volume contains a comprehensive presentation of the theory, technology, missions and projects on relativistic gravity in space.

Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309467721
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laser has revolutionized many areas of science and society, providing bright and versatile light sources that transform the ways we investigate science and enables trillions of dollars of commerce. Now a second laser revolution is underway with pulsed petawatt-class lasers (1 petawatt: 1 million billion watts) that deliver nearly 100 times the total world's power concentrated into a pulse that lasts less than one-trillionth of a second. Such light sources create unique, extreme laboratory conditions that can accelerate and collide intense beams of elementary particles, drive nuclear reactions, heat matter to conditions found in stars, or even create matter out of the empty vacuum. These powerful lasers came largely from U.S. engineering, and the science and technology opportunities they enable were discussed in several previous National Academies' reports. Based on these advances, the principal research funding agencies in Europe and Asia began in the last decade to invest heavily in new facilities that will employ these high-intensity lasers for fundamental and applied science. No similar programs exist in the United States. Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers assesses the opportunities and recommends a path forward for possible U.S. investments in this area of science.

High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics

Author : Sergey V. Lebedev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402060556
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics written by Sergey V. Lebedev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work will be of interest to a wide range of academics. It provides a comprehensive round-up of the proceedings and papers delivered at the 2006 Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, held at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA. The contributions come from scientists interested in this emerging field. They discuss the progress in topics covering everything from stellar evolution and envelopes, to opacities, radiation transport and x-ray photoionized plasmas.

High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics

Author : George A. Kyrala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402034831
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics written by George A. Kyrala and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past several years, research teams around the world have developed astrophysics-relevant utilizing high energy-density facilities such as intense lasers and z-pinches. Research is underway in many areas, such as compressible hydrodynamic mixing, strong shock phenomena, radiation flow, radiative shocks and jets, complex opacities, equations o fstat, and relativistic plasmas. Beyond this current research and the papers it is producing, plans are being made for the application, to astrophysics-relevant research, of the 2 MJ National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the 600 kj Ligne d'Intergration Laser (LIL) and the 2 MJ Laser Megajoule (LMJ) in Bordeaux, France; petawatt-range lasers now under construction around the world; and current and future Z pinches. The goal of this conference and these proceedings is to continue focusing and attention on this emerging research area. The conference brought together different scientists interested in this emerging new filed, with topics covering: - Hydrodynamic instabilities in astrophysics, - Supernovae and supernova remnant evolution, - Aastrophysical shocks, blast waves, and jets, - Stellar opacities, - Radiation and thermal transport, - Dense plasma atomic physics and EOS - X-ray photoionized plasmas, - Ultrastrong magnetic field generation Reprinted from Astrophysics and Space Science, volume 298, Nos. 1-2, 2005

Laser Physics

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Research in Space Science, SAO Special Report

Author : Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research in Space Science, SAO Special Report written by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free Control

Author : Hansjörg Dittus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540861959
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free Control written by Hansjörg Dittus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-29 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by international experts, this book explores the possibilities for the next 20 years in conducting gravitational experiments in space that would make the most of the new and much-improved existing capabilities. They start from the premise that over the next decade the gravitational physics community will benefit from dramatic improvements in many technologies critical to the tests of gravity. This volume contains a comprehensive presentation of the theory, technology, missions and projects on relativistic gravity in space.

Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

Author : D.M. Alloin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792327486
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (274 download)

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Book Synopsis Adaptive Optics for Astronomy by : D.M. Alloin

Download or read book Adaptive Optics for Astronomy written by D.M. Alloin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blossoming of adaptive optical techniques has brought about a revolution in the field of astronomical observation. Coupled with the new generation of large, ground-based telescopes, it allows us to achieve an unprecendented angular resolution in the analysis of faint astronomical sources at optical wavelengths. This book provides the basic concepts of adaptive optics, discusses the possible instrumental strategies and the state-of-the-art technical achievements of this development and presents the key astrophysical programs which will most benefit from it. Over fifteen well-known experts have contributed to making this volume a comprehensive one, with steady progression as well as full coverage of the various aspects of the field. Students graduating in optical sciences and astrophysics, astronomers, engineers interested in atmospheric turbulence compensation will find this book a reference text on the subject.

Optics in Astrophysics

Author : Renaud Foy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402034377
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Optics in Astrophysics written by Renaud Foy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astrophysics is facing challenging aims such as deep cosmology at redshift higher than 10 to constrain cosmology models, or the detection of exoplanets, and possibly terrestrial exoplanets, and several others. It requires unprecedented ambitious R&D programs, which have definitely to rely on a tight cooperation between astrophysics and optics communities. The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first need is to collect more light, i.e. telescopes still larger than the current 8-10 meter class ones. Decametric, and even hectometric, optical (from UV to IR wavelengths) telescopes are being studied. Whereas up to now the light collecting surface of new telescopes was approximately 4 times that of the previous generation, now this factor is growing to 10 to 100. This quantum leap urges to implement new methods or technologies developed in the optics community, both in academic labs and in the industry. Given the astrophysical goals and technological constraints, new generation adaptive optics with a huge number of actuators and laser guide stars devices have to be developed, from theoretical bases to experimental works. Two other newcomers in observational astrophysics are interferometric arrays of optical telescopes and gravitational wave detectors. Up-to-date reviews of detectors and of spectrographs are given, as well as forefront R&D in the field of optical coatings and of guided optics. Possible new ways to handle photons are also addressed, based on quantum physics. More and more signal processing algorithms are a part and parcel of any modern instrumentation. Thus finally the book gives two reviews about wavefront processing and about image restoration and deconvolution algorithms for ill conditioned cases.

Classical Trajectory Perspective of Atomic Ionization in Strong Laser Fields

Author : Jie Liu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642405495
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Classical Trajectory Perspective of Atomic Ionization in Strong Laser Fields written by Jie Liu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ionization of atoms and molecules in strong laser fields is an active field in modern physics and has versatile applications in such as attosecond physics, X-ray generation, inertial confined fusion (ICF), medical science and so on. Classical Trajectory Perspective of Atomic Ionization in Strong Laser Fields covers the basic concepts in this field and discusses many interesting topics using the semiclassical model of classical trajectory ensemble simulation, which is one of the most successful ionization models and has the advantages of a clear picture, feasible computing and accounting for many exquisite experiments quantitatively. The book also presents many applications of the model in such topics as the single ionization, double ionization, neutral atom acceleration and other timely issues in strong field physics, and delivers useful messages to readers with presenting the classical trajectory perspective on the strong field atomic ionization. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in the field of laser physics, atom molecule physics and theoretical physics. Dr. Jie Liu is a professor of Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, China and Peking University.