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The development of lasers capable of producing high-intensity pulses has opened a new area in the study of light-matter interactions. The corresponding laser fields are strong enough to compete with the Coulomb forces in controlling the dynamics of atomic systems and give rise to multiphoton processes. This book presents a unified account of this rapidly developing field of physics. The first part describes the fundamental phenomena occurring in intense laser-atom interactions and gives the basic theoretical framework to analyze them. The second part contains a detailed discussion of Floquet theory, the numerical integration of the wave equations and approximation methods for the low- and high-frequency regimes. In the third part, the main multiphoton processes are discussed: multiphoton ionization, high harmonic and attosecond pulse generation, and laser-assisted electron-atom collisions. Aimed at graduate students in atomic, molecular and optical physics, the book will also interest researchers working on laser interactions with matter.

Electron-atom collisions. --- Floquet theory. --- Laser pulses, Ultrashort. --- Multiphoton processes. --- Multiphoton ionization. --- Photoionization --- Multiple photon processes --- Processes, Multiphoton --- Excited state chemistry --- Lasers in chemistry --- Photochemistry --- Quantum electrodynamics --- Quantum optics --- Laser pulses, Picosecond --- Light pulses, Picosecond --- Light pulses, Ultrashort --- Picosecond laser pulses --- Picosecond light pulses --- Ultrashort laser pulses --- Ultrashort light pulses --- Laser beams --- Pulse techniques (Electronics) --- Picosecond pulses --- Floquet-Lyapunov theorem --- Floquet's theorem --- Differential equations --- Atom-electron collisions --- Atom-electron interactions --- Electron-atom interactions --- Collisions (Nuclear physics)