title: Atomic kinetics of matter irradiated by intense laser fields.
abstract: The atomic kinetics of solid density low-Z material under an intense oscillating laser field is presented. The transient behavior of the average ionization and the heating mechanism is analyzed. Temporal oscillations in excited configurations populations caused by the laser field oscillations are demonstrated. These phenomena present a method for creating short, 1-100 fs, monochromatic but incoherent x-ray pulses and for measuring basic atomic rates.
authors.affiliation: Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.|Soreq Research Center, Yavne 81800, Israel.
authors.forename: Yechiel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Frank
authors.affiliation: Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: Arie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zigler
authors.affiliation: Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.|Soreq Research Center, Yavne 81800, Israel.
authors.forename: Zohar
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Henis