Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XVII

本書涵蓋廣泛的跨學科主題，重點探討在強激光場中的原子和分子、強激光場中的激發過程、光子學和材料、高階諧波產生、XFEL、高功率激光及其應用，以及量子計算。本書第十七卷匯集了世界知名研究者的貢獻，主題包括阿秒和飛秒激光脈衝的應用、量子系統中的相干性和動力學，以及超強激光場的應用。

PUILS系列提供了有關這一新興跨學科研究領域的最新進展回顧，涵蓋原子和分子物理學、分子科學和光學科學，這些領域受到超快激光技術最近發展的刺激。每一卷都匯編了由各自超快強激光科學子領域前沿研究者撰寫的經過同行評審的文章。每章開頭都會對將要討論的主題進行概述，以便對該子領域不熟悉的研究者，特別是研究生，能夠理解當前研究主題的重要性和吸引力；隨後是前沿發現的報告。

Kaoru Yamanouchi is currently Emeritus Professor of The University of Tokyo and Director of Institute of Attosecond Laser Facility, The University of Tokyo. His research fields are in physical chemistry, especially, intense laser science, attosecond laser science, laser spectroscopy, chemical reaction dynamics, and quantum computing of atomic and molecular systems. In 1996, he launched a new research project to investigate how atoms, molecules, and clusters respond to an intense laser field. By developing new experimental techniques such as mass-resolved momentum imaging, pulsed gas electron diffraction, and coincidence momentum imaging, he has continued a successful exploration of the new research field of ultrafast intense laser science. Among his discoveries, ultrafast structural deformation of molecules and ultrafast hydrogen atom migration within hydrocarbon molecules are noteworthy. He has also demonstrated that the ultrafast structural changes of molecules can in principle be probed in real time with femtosecond temporal resolution using a method called laser-assisted electron scattering/diffraction. He has also been working experimentally and theoretically to elucidate the mechanism of "air lasing" and has revealed that the air lasing is realized by ultrafast population transfer among the three electronic states of nitrogen molecular ions.

Louis F DiMauro is Professor of Physics and Hagenlocker Chair at the Ohio State University. He received his BA (1975) from Hunter College, CUNY and his Ph.D. from University of Connecticut in 1980 and was a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY at Stony Brook before arriving at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981. He joined the staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1988 rising to the rank of senior scientist. In 2004 he joined the faculty at The Ohio State University. He was awarded 2004 BNL/BSA Science & Technology Prize, 2012 OSU Distinguish Scholar Award, the 2013 OSA Meggers Prize and the2017 APS Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of American and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on numerous national and international committees, government panels, served as the 2010 APS DAMOP chair, vice-chair of the NAS CAMOS committee and currently serves on the NAS Board of Physics and Astronomy. His research interest is in experimental attosecond and strong-field physics. In 1993, he and his collaborators introduced the widely accepted semi-classical model in strong-field physics.

Wendell T. Hill, III holds the rank of Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), with appointments in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and the Department of Physics. He also is a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the director of the Chemical Physics Graduate Program. His research straddles atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) and plasma physics, with publications in ultracold atoms, ultrafast dynamics and ultra-intense laser-matter interaction, with a particular interest in electron dynamics in extreme fields where the quantum vacuum can be perturbed. He co-authored the textbook "Light-Matter Interaction: Atoms and Molecules in External Fields and Nonlinear Optics" (Wiley) as well as a number of book chapters. His service record includes program officer for the NSF AMO program, member of the NAS Board on Physics and Astronomy, Chair of NAS Committee on AMO Science, member of advisory and facility committees, and frequent reviewer of programs and departments, facilities, proposals and manuscripts. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kaoru Yamanouchi 目前是東京大學的名譽教授及東京大學超快激光設施研究所所長。他的研究領域包括物理化學，特別是強激光科學、阿秒激光科學、激光光譜學、化學反應動力學以及原子和分子系統的量子計算。1996年，他啟動了一個新的研究項目，旨在研究原子、分子和簇在強激光場中的反應。通過開發質量解析動量成像、脈衝氣體電子衍射和重合動量成像等新實驗技術，他持續成功探索超快強激光科學這一新研究領域。在他的發現中，分子的超快結構變形和碳氫化合物分子內氫原子的超快遷移尤為引人注目。他還展示了分子的超快結構變化原則上可以通過一種稱為激光輔助電子散射/衍射的方法，以飛秒時間分辨率實時探測。他還在實驗和理論上致力於闡明「空氣激光」的機制，並揭示空氣激光是通過氮分子離子的三個電子態之間的超快人口轉移實現的。

Louis F DiMauro 是俄亥俄州立大學的物理學教授及Hagenlocker講座教授。他於1975年在CUNY的Hunter College獲得學士學位，1980年在康乃爾大學獲得博士學位，並在1981年之前擔任SUNY Stony Brook的博士後研究員。他於1988年加入布魯克海文國家實驗室，晉升為高級科學家。2004年，他加入俄亥俄州立大學的教職。他曾獲得2004年BNL/BSA科學與技術獎、2012年OSU傑出學者獎、2013年OSA Meggers獎及2017年APS Schawlow激光科學獎。他是美國物理學會、光學學會及美國科學促進會的會士。他曾在多個國內外委員會和政府小組中任職，擔任2010年APS DAMOP主席、NAS CAMOS委員會副主席，並目前在NAS物理與天文學委員會任職。他的研究興趣在於實驗阿秒和強場物理。1993年，他和他的合作者引入了在強場物理中廣泛接受的半經典模型。

Wendell T. Hill, III 是馬里蘭大學（UMD）物理科學與技術研究所及物理系的教授。他同時也是聯合量子研究所（JQI）的會士及化學物理研究生項目的主任。他的研究跨越原子、分子和光學（AMO）以及等離子體物理，發表了有關超冷原子、超快動力學和超強激光-物質相互作用的論文，特別關注在極端場中量子真空可能被擾動的電子動力學。他共同編寫了教科書《光-物質相互作用：外部場和非線性光學中的原子和分子》（Wiley），以及多篇書籍章節。他的服務記錄包括擔任NSF AMO計畫的項目官員、NAS物理與天文學委員會成員、NAS AMO科學委員會主席、顧問及設施委員會成員，並經常擔任計畫、部門、設施、提案和手稿的審稿人。他是美國物理學會的會士、全美黑人物理學會的會士及美國藝術與科學學院的成員。