This revised edition of the author's classic 2006 text offers a comprehensively updated review
of the field of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics. It explores the interaction of strong
and super-strong electromagnetic laser radiation with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and
diverse types of matter - including free charged particles and antiparticles acceleration
beams plasma and plasmous media. The appearance of laser sources of relativistic and
ultra-relativistic intensities over the last decade has stimulated investigation of a large
class of processes under such super-strong radiation fields. Revisions for this second edition
reflect these developments and the book includes new chapters on Bremsstrahlung and nonlinear
absorption of superintense radiation in plasmas the nonlinear interaction of relativistic
atoms with intense laser radiation nonlinear interaction of strong laser radiation with
Graphene and relativistic nonlinear phenomena in solid-plasma targets under supershort laser
pulses of ultrarelativistic intensities. The only book devoted to the subject of relativistic
nonlinear electrodynamics this second edition will be a valuable resource for graduate
students and researchers involved in any aspect of the field including those working with
intense x-ray - gamma-ray lasers the new generation of small size laser-plasma accelerators of
superhigh energies and high-brightness particle beams.
