The PUILS series delivers up-to-date reviews of progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science a
newly emerging interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics
molecular science and optical science which has been stimulated by the recent developments in
ultrafast laser technologies. Each volume compiles peer-reviewed articles authored by
researchers at the forefront of each their own subfields of UILS. Every chapter opens with an
overview of the topics to be discussed so that researchers unfamiliar to the subfield as well
as graduate students can grasp the importance and attractions of the research topic at hand
these are followed by reports of cutting-edge discoveries. This fifth volume covers a broad
range of topics from this interdisciplinary research field focusing on coherent responses of
gaseous and condensed matter to ultrashort intense laser pulses propagation of intense laser
pulses and laser-plasma interaction and its applications. TOC:Vibrational and Electronic
Excitation of Molecules by Short-Pulse Strong Laser Fields.- Coherent Lattice Oscillations in
Solids and Their Optical Control - Part 1. Fundamentals and Optical Detection Techniques.-
Coherent Lattice Oscillations in Solids and Their Optical Control - Part 2. New Detection
Techniques and Optical Control.- Heterodyne Interferometry Using High-Order Harmonic Generation
in Mixed Gases.- Propagation of Ultrashort Pulses in Condensed Media.- On Lightning Control
Using Lasers.- Advances in X-ray Studies of Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions.- High Field
Photonics in Laser Plasmas: Propagation Studies Electron Acceleration and Nuclear Activation
with Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulses.- Laser Plasma Acceleration and Related Electromagnetic
Sources.- Laser-Driven Ion Generation with Short- Intense- and High-Contrast Pulses.
