  In Part I (physics/0405091), it was shown that it is possible to achieve
efficient heating of cylindrical targets by electromagnetic beams with
transverse dimensions that are several orders of magnitude greater than those
of the cylinder. Part II contains derivation of the detailed conditions of
efficient heating in the longitudinal geometry and establishes a broader domain
of parameters providing efficient heating in the transverse geometry. One
possible implementation using currently available technology is considered: a
nanotube (length 1 cm, diameter 15 nm) may be heated in the transverse geometry
by a 30 femtosecond pulse of a 50 GW Ti:Sapphire laser (wavelength 800 nm) to a
temperature of 1 keV with heating efficiency of 16 per cent. The resulting
energy density exceeds 100 MJ/cm3. An exact formula in the form of a
one-dimensional integral is obtained for the amount of energy absorbed in the
cylinder heated by a gaussian electromagnetic beam in the longitudinal
geometry.
