Ultrafast Phenomena XIV

Generation and Measurements.- Single-Cycle Optical Pulse Generation.- Toward a terawatt few-optical-cycle driver laser for attosecond spectroscopy.- 2.8-fs clean single transform-limited optical-pulse generation and characterization.- Coherent amplification of femtosecond pulses with passive enhancement cavities.- Temporal and Spatial Pulse Compression in a Nonlinear Defocusing Material.- Intense CEO-stabilized few-cycle laser pulses from supercontinuum generation in filaments.- Generation of ultra-broadband high energy pulses without external amplification.- Sub-10 fs multi-mJ Ti:sapphire laser system with a pressure-gradient hollow fiber.- Generation of 14-fs ultrashort pulse in all fiber scheme by use of highly nonlinear hybrid fiber.- High peak power ultrashort pulse generation using all-fiber chirped pulse amplification system with small core multimode fiber.- Carrier-envelope phase fluctuations of amplified laser pulses transmitted through neon-filled hollow fiber for pulse compression.- Temporal Self-Compression of Intense Femtosecond Pulses Propagating in Argon-Filled Hollow Waveguides.- Stimulated Brillouin scattering in ultrahigh- speed femtosecond soliton pulse compression with a dispersion-decreasing fiber.- Control of the spectral broadening of tens-millijoules laser pulses in an argon-filled hollow fiber using a conjugate pressure gradient.- Microstructured fiber feedback pulse compression to few optical cycles.- Spectral-temporal soliton dynamics analysis near second zero-dispersion point in photonic crystal fibers.- Generation of Rotational Raman Emissions and Self-compressed Femtosecond Pulses in a Hydrogen Gas.- Spectral broadening of 50 milli joule laser pulses in a neon-filled Herriot multiple-pass cell (MPC).- CEO phase preservation in chirped-pulse optical parametric amplification of 17.3-fs pulses.- Long-term stabilization and control of CEP of idler from NOPA.- Experimental and Theoretical Study of a Visible Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplified Pulse with 200 THz Bandwidth.- Tunable wavelength pulse shaping of visible NOPA Outputs with an Acousto-Optic Programmable Dispersive Filter.- Broadband high power optical chirped pulse amplification.- Mid-infrared femtosecond pulse generation by optical parametric amplification under broadband QPM condition.- Achromatic second harmonic generation: tunable ultraviolet pulses with sub-10 fs duration.- Ultrabroad-band noncollinear optical parametric amplification in some new nonlinear optical crystals.- Design of Multilayer Mirrors for the Reflection of Sub-Femtosecond Pulses in the XUV Spectral Region.- Route to design electric fields of optical pulses: A combination of a pulse shaper and a carrier-envelope-phase stabilized chirped-pulse amplifier system.- Towards electric field reconstruction using coherent transients in a two-level System.- Spatiotemporal determination of the absolute phase of few-cycle laser pulses.- Spatial chirp and pulse-front tilt in ultrashort laser pulses and their measurement.- Principal Control Analysis: Gaining Insight from Feedback Learning Algorithms.- Population-split Genetic Algorithm for phase retrieval of ultrafast laser pulses.- Eight-Frame Observation of Propagation Behavior of 0.49-mJ, 45-fs Optical Pulses Generated by a 1-kHz Laser System.- Self-referenced measurement of the complete electric field of ultrashort pulses in time and space.- Pulse-measurement challenges at 1.5 microns: several-cycle pulses and several-element devices.- Single-shot phase measurement by spectral phase interferometry using a streak camera.- FROG measured 185 fs pulses generated by down-chirped dispersion-managed breathing-mode semiconductor laser.- Direct Measurement of the Group Delay Dispersion of Ultrashort pulses utilizing Molecular Vibrations.- Spatially encoded spectral interferometry for complete characterisation of attosecond XUV pulses.- Spatially encoded spectral interferometry for complete characterization of ultrashort pulses.- Full characterization of ultraviolet and visible 10-fs pulses with zero-additional-phase SPIDER.- Direct visualization of transient absorption by real-time pump-probe imaging spectroscopy.- Strong Fields and High Order Harmonics.- Dynamic Molecular Imaging.- Femtosecond electron diffraction: Towards making the "molecular movie".- Absolute Displacement Interferometry of Ultrafast Laser-Produced Plasma Expansion.- Electron acceleration through spatiotemporal shaping of ultrashort light pulses.- Mapping attosecond electron wave packet motion.- Quasi-monoenergetic electron beam generation in laser-driven plasma acceleration.- Control of multiphoton ionization processes in aligned I2 molecules by optimizing time-dependent polarization of femtosecond pulses.- Tomographic Imaging of Molecular Orbital with High Harmonic Generation.- Femtosecond Infrared Vibrational Up-Pumping of Liquid Phase W(CO)6.- Ultrafast X-ray diffraction.- Quasi-phase matching of high harmonic generation in the "water window" soft x-ray region.- Adaptive engineering of coherent soft x-rays.- Generation of strong soft x-ray field based on high-order harmonics.- Generation of sub-4-fs high harmonic pulses and their application to the above-threshold ionization.- Coherent imaging of laser-plasma interactions using high-harmonic EUV Light.- High-Order Harmonic Generation from Argon Ions up to 250 eV.- High-Order Harmonic Generation from Femtosecond Laser-Aligned Molecules.- Efficient generation of high-order sum and difference frequencies in the XUV region by combining a weak, longer-wavelength field.- Effects of Target Condition on Solid Surface Harmonics in the Extreme Ultraviolet Range.- Control of the frequency chirp rate of high harmonic pulses.- Wavefront Control in High Harmonics Generation with Few- and Many-optical-cycle Laser Pulses.- Phase-driven strong-field processes in the multi-optical-cycle regime.- Bright high-order harmonic generation at 13 nm and coherence measurement.- Attosecond Pulse Generation During the Laser Pulse Reflection at the Plasma-Vacuum Interface.- Energetic Proton and Deuteron Generation from a Microporous Polytetrafluoroethylene Film with Deuterated Polystyrene using a 2.4-TW Table-Top Laser.- High-energy protons emitted from a polymer-coated metal foil by 60-fs laser irradiation.- Estimation of proton source size generated by ultraintense laser pulses using a Thomson mass spectrometer.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Solid 1 (Phonon and Exciton).- Imaging Nanostructures with Picosecond Ultrasonic Pulses.- Ultrahigh frequency acoustic phonon generation and spectroscopy with Deathstar pulse shaping.- Probing of Thermo-Acoustic Transients in Materials Using EUV Radiation.- Ultrafast dynamics of coherent electron-phonon interaction in silicon.- Generation of Coherent Zone Boundary Phonons by Impulsive Excitation of Molecules.- Amplitude Collapse -Revival of Chirped Coherent Phonons under High-density Optical Excitation.- Intense coherent optical phonons driven by impulsive excitonic interference under electric fields.- Phonon-polariton Based THz Spectroscopy.- Excitonic quantum beats dressed with coherent phonons.- Evidence of higher-order nonlinearities in excitonic FWM signals in microscopic theory and experiment.- Ultrafast Anisotropic Processes of Exciton Magnetic Polarons in CdTe/CdMnTe Quantum Wires.- Time-resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy of excitons in Cu2O.- Exciton dynamics in pentacene and tetracene studied using optical pump-probe spectroscopy.- Dephasing suppression of excitons in semiconductors.- Dynamical Stark effect of excitons in Cu2O by resonant pulsed excitation of the 1s-2p transition.- Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration and Exciton Regeneration at Polymeric Semiconductor Heterojunctions.- Exciton diffusion dynamics in an organic semiconductor nanostructure.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Solid 2.- Carrier-envelope phase controlled quantum interference in a semiconductor.- Phase-resolved nonlinear response of modulation-doped quantum wells under femtosecond intersubband excitation.- Ultrafast Intersubband Relaxation and Carrier Cooling in GaN/AlN multiple quantum wells.- Polaritonics in complex structures: Confinement, bandgap materials, and coherent control.- Detection of four-wave mixing signal from single layer quantum dots.- Wavepacket Interferometry and Wavepacket Dynamics in Condensed Phase.- Femtosecond wavepacket dynamics of potassium adsorbate on Pt(111).- Control of tunnel ionization in molecules by intense femtosecond laser pulses with time-dependent polarization.- Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Dynamics in the Colossal Magnetoresistance Pyrochlore Tl2Mn2O7.- Femto-magnetism visualized in three dimensions.- Photo-induced demagnetization observed by time-resolved mid-infrared transmittance spectroscopy in Ga0.94Mn0.06As.- Optically Induced Magnetization and Ultrafast Spin Dynamics of Magnetic Ions in Ionic Crystals.- Dynamic coupling-decoupling crossover in the current-driven vortex-state in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 studied using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.- Ultrafast light induced Charge disordering around phase transition temperature in 2D spin ladder compound NaV2O5.- Correlation of the Electronic Transitions in Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes.- Ultrafast radial transport in a micron-scale aluminum plasma excited at relativistic intensity.- Chirp Control of Free Carrier Dynamics in GaAs.- Ultrafast insulator-to-metal switching by photoinduced Mott transition.- Femtosecond Near Edge X-ray Absorption Measurement of the VO2 Phase Transition..- Phase Transition in strongly-correlated VO2: Time-domain Assignment of Cause and Effect.- Polarization-dependent phenomenon induced by the interaction between focused femtosecond laser and transparent materials.- Investigation on the parameters of dense electronic plasma induced by femtosecond laser in fused silica.- Dynamical Symmetry Breaking induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses in KTaO3.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Solution.- Sub-20-fs study of energy relaxation in carotenoids in solution and inside light harvesting complexes.- Energy flow in carotenoids, studied with pump-deplete-probe, multiphoton and coherent control spectroscopy.- Amplitude spectra of molecular vibration modes in phthalocyanine: comparison with Raman excitation profile.- Real-time tracking of the peaks in transition difference spectra during vibrational periods in PDA.- Time-resolved CARS studies of vibrational coherences in the condensed phase: I2 in solid krypton.- Measurement of Conical Intersection Dynamics by Impulsive Femtosecond Polarization Spectroscopy.- Vibrational Phase Characterization in Femtosecond-pumped Molecules by Path-length Modulation.- Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Water-Acetonitrile Mixtures.- Cascaded energy redistribution upon O-H stretching excitation in an intramolecular hydrogen bond.- Pure intermolecular energy relaxation of the OH bending vibration of water molecules dissolved in organic liquids.- Time-resolved spectroscopy of an azobenzene derivative with a small S1-S2 energy gap.- Photo-thermalization dynamics of azulene in supercritical fluids studied by the transient grating method.- Vibrational Self-Trapping in an ?-Helix.- Infrared Photon-Echo Spectroscopy of Water: The Thermalization Effects.- Heterodyne 2D-IR Photon Echo Spectroscopy of Multi-Level OH Stretching Coherences in Hydrogen Bonds.- A unified analysis of ultrafast vibrational and orientational dynamics of HOD in D2O.- Time Resolved Direct Probing of the Change in the Local Solvent Response Following Excitation of a Solute.- Surface Femtochemistry: Photocatalytic Reaction Dynamics of Methanol / TiO2(110).- Three pulse four wave mixing for the study of coherent interactions, nuclear dynamics and solvation dynamics in liquids.- Solvation dynamics of N-methylacetamide in D2O, CDCI3 and DMSO-d6.- Femtosecond Pump-probe Measurements of Solvation Dynamics of Hydrogen-bonding Complexes in Non-associating Solvents.- Novel Time- and Frequency-resolved Double Pump Spectroscopy of Short-lived Precursors: The Solvated Electron in Methanol.- Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy on Aqueous Reverse-Micellar Nano-Droplets.- Pump-probe near-field optical microscopy of molecular aggregates using supercontinuum.- Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation Dynamics of Anions in Reverse Micelles by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy.- Reaction Dynamics in Solution.- Femtochemistry in the electronic groundstate? IR-driven cis-trans isomerization of HONO.- Bimodal Intermolecular Proton Transfer in Acid-Base Neutralization Reactions in Water.- Ultrafast Excitation Energy Migration Processes in Various Porphyrin Arrays..- Energy transfer in phenylene ethynylene dendrimers.- A 40-fs Time-Resolved Absorption Study of Cis-Stilbene in Solution: Observation of Coherent Nuclear Wavepacket Motion in Reactive Excited State.- Monitoring an Ultrafast Photo-Isomerization by Femtosecond Fluorescence, Absorption, and IR Spectroscopy.- From ultrafast spectroscopy to bidirectional molecular switches: DHA/VHF.- Ultrafast Intramolecular Electron Transfer of 9,9?-Bianthryl as Studied by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Near-Infrared Absorption and Anisotropy in the 950-1500 nm Region.- Real-time spectroscopy of charge-transfer excitation in phthalocyanine tin dichloride.- Coherent nuclear dynamics coupled with electron transfer reaction in porphyrin-ferrocence dyads.- Subpicosecond Pulse Radiolysis Study on Geminate Ion Recombination Process in n-Dodecane.- Fast Spin Dynamics of Optically Induced Magnetization in Aqueous Solutions of Magnetic Ions.- Vibrational excitation and energy redistribution after ultrafast intramolecular proton transfer of TINUVIN.- Coherent Nuclear Motion in Reacting Molecules: Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Proton Transfer in Solution.- Ultrafast double proton transfer: symmetry breaking wavepacket motion and absence of deuterium isotope effect.- Photodissociation dynamics studied via Time-Resolved Coincidence Imaging Spectroscopy.- Femtosecond Photo-induced Dissociation of the Trihalide Anions I3? and I2Br? in Solution.- Coherent control of non-radiative transitions: long-range electron transfer.- Teaching lasers to twist molecules.- Quantum control of a chiral molecular motor driven by linearly polarized laser pulses.- Numerical Synthesis of Optimal Laser Pulses for Manipulating Dissociation Wave Packets of I2? in Water.- Molecular State Reconstruction by Nonlinear Wave Packet Interferometry.- Femtosecond coherent spectroscopic study of Zn(II) porphyrin by chirping-controlled ultrashort pulses.- Phase analysis of vibrational wavepackets in the ground and the excited states in polydiacetylene.- Calculating Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Signals from Molecules in Cryogenic Matrices.- Real-Time Observation of Phase -Controlled Vibrational Wave-packets in Iodine Molecules.- Single-shot Transient Absorption of I3? in Solutions and Glasses.- Multiview and Multi-Dimensional Spectroscopy.- Dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water: Vibrational echoes and two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy.- Dual-Frequency 2D IR Photon Echo of a Hydrogen Bond.- 2D-IR spectroscopy of transient species.- Resolving Conformations of Acetylproline-NH2 by Coherent 2D IR Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of rotaxanes.- Thermal denaturing of proteins: Equilibrium and transient studies using nonlinear infrared probes.- Two-Dimensional Optical Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Molecular Complexes.- 2-Dimensional Measurement of the Solvent Intermolecular Response in Solvation.- Two-dimensional femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy using a chirped supercontinuum generated from a photonic crystal fiber.- Two-dimensional spectroscopy by spectrally resolved real-time resonant coherent Raman scattering in polydiacetylene.- Optical Two-dimensional Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Wells.- Degenerate four-wave mixing spectroscopy based on two dimensional pulse shaping.- Propagation and detection distortions of four-wave mixing signals: application to 2D spectroscopy.- Fourier Transform Measurement of Two-Photon Excitation Spectra: Applications to Microscopy and Quantum Control.- Biology.- Watching proteins function with picosecond time-resolved X-ray crystallography.- Energy transfer pathways in Photosystem I studied by one and two color photon echo spectroscopy.- Dynamics of Carotenoids Probed by Femtosecond Absorption, Fluorescence, and Raman Spectroscopy.- Multi-Pulse Transient Absorption and Carotenoid Excited-State Dynamics: ?-Carotene.- Observation and control of all-trans-?-carotene wavepacket motion using pump-degenerate four-wave mixing.- Vibrational and Electronic Coherence Observed in Two-Dimensional Integrated Three-Pulse Photon Echo.- Photon Echo Study of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Strength in Molecules and Molecular Aggregates.- Time and Frequency Domain Investigations on Ultrafast Photoisomerization Reaction Dynamics of PYP.- Entire view of coherent oscillations in ultrafast fluorescence for photoactive yellow protein.- Ultrafast excited and ground-state isomerization dynamics of the Green Fluorescent Protein chromophore in solution.- Optimal Control of Femtosecond Photoisomerization of Retinal in Rhodopsin: Effects of Conical Intersections.- Ultrafast polarization and vibrational motions in bacteriorhodopsin studied by coherent infrared emission spectroscopy.- Excited-state dynamics of the 1Bu+, 3Ag?, and 1Bu? states in all-trans-spirilloxanthin as revealed by sub-5-fs time-resolved absorption spectroscopy.- Ultrafast relaxation inside proteins: Calculation and measurement of electron-vibration coupling in enzymes.- Direct observations of ligand rebinding trajectories in myoglobin by femtosecond mid-IR spectroscopy.- Coherent vibrational climbing in carboxy-hemoglobin.- Evidence for non-separating four-point correlation functions from IR pump-probe spectroscopy of CO in a protein internal cavity.- The CO oscillator as a probe of ligand dissociation dynamics in myoglobin.- A 2DIR study of backbone structure and dynamics of a dipeptide in membrane.- Engineering cost function for optimizing coherent control between processes with different nonlinearities.- Ultrafast Nanostructure Photonics and Plasmon.- Imaging of localized silver plasmon dynamics with sub-fs time and nano-meter spatial resolution.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Light Transmission Through Plasmonic Crystals.- Ultrafast Near-Field Microscope Imaging of Electron and Phonon Relaxation in Single Gold Nanoparticle.- Plasmon enhanced ultrafast optical transmission in metallic nano-arrays.- Excitation and propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on metallic periodic structures.- Ultrafast dynamics of periodic arrays of holes in a gold film.- Surface plasmon assisted 26 fs, 0.4 keV electron pulse generation.- Space-Time Control in Ultrafast Nano-Optics.- Coherent Control of Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Nanostructures.- SPASER as Ultrafast Nanoscale Phenomenon and Device.- Ultrafast quenching of ring closure in molecular switches, self-assembled on gold nanoparticles.- Terahertz Wave and Applications.- Temporal spectroscopic behavior of terahertz pulses transmitted through metal hole arrays.- Surface-plasmon-polariton enhanced tunneling of THz radiation through arrays of sub-wavelength apertures.- Terahertz Access to the Nanoworld.- Terahertz surface plasmon polariton coupling on metallic grating structures.- Control of THz transmission through two-dimensional metallic photonic crystals.- Teflon photonic crystal fiber as polarization-preserving waveguide in THz region.- Generation of coherent tunable THz waves by using birefringent crystal and grating pair.- Ultra-wide bandwidth THz emission from a semiconductor irradiated with intense, radially-polarized, Bessel-Gauss pulses.- Mechanism crossover of terahertz radiation from InAs surface induced by a magnetic field at high density excitation.- Transient Grating Generation and Waveform Shaping of Free-Space Propagating, Picosecond, Narrow-Band THz Radiation.- Typesetting THz Waveforms.- Magnetically induced evolution of terahertz radiation spectrum emitted from InAs up to 27T.- A Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter with a Tuning Range of over 360 degrees around 1 THz.- Cooper pair breaking dynamics in MgB2 using optieal-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy.- Femtosecond formation of phonon-plasmon coupled modes studied by ultrabroadband THz spectroscopy.- Solid-state phase transition onset detection in estrogen-like chemical via terahertz transmission spectroscopy.- Maximum Entropy Method for Misplacement Phase Error Correction in Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy.- Pulsed terahertz spectroscopy and imaging applied to inspection of explosives and inflammable liquids.- Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of surface plasmon polaritons on semiconductor surfaces.- Evaluation of Complex Optical Constants of Semiconductor Wafers Using Terahertz Ellipsometry.- Terahertz two-dimensional spectroscopic imaging with a high speed CMOS camera.- Single-shot terahertz imaging.- Ultrabroadband detection of multi-THz field transients with GaSe electro-optic sensors.- Terahertz field detection beyond 30 THz by proton-bombarded InP photoconductive antennas.- THz Wave Near-Field Emission Microscope.- Optoelectronics and Other Applications.- Optimization of a 40 GHz regeneratively and harmonically mode-locked fiber laser under PLL operation and its longitudinal mode characteristics.- Femtosecond Synchronization of RF-Signals with Optical Pulse Trains.- Fast photo-induced phase switching in organic conductor crystal; (EDO-TTF)2PF6.- Molecular phase-to-amplitude converter using femtosecond wave packet engineering.- Femtosecond pulse recoding and regeneration by a two-photon gated periodic diffractive optics.- Linewidth and RIN measurements of longitudinal modes in ultrahigh-speed mode-locked laser diodes.- Charge Generation in Inorganic/Organic Photovoltaic Blends.- Enhanced polariton decay in LiNbO3 due to stimulated emission of acoustic phonons.- Ultrafast Electrooptic Deflector Using Quasi-Velocity-Matching.- Ultrafast Control of a Surface Plasmon Resonance via the Insulator to Metal Transition in VO2 Nanoparticles.- External Generation of Flat Power-envelope THz Modulation Sidebands from a CW Laser based on an Electrooptic Phase Modulator.- Microfabrication by Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- 3D photonic devices fabricated in glass by a femtosecond oscillator.- Writing of photonic devices and waveguide lasers by a diode-pumped femtosecond oscillator.- Toward the Fabrication of Hybrid Polymer/Metal Three-Dimensional Microstructures.- Production of 3D, dichroitic microstructures in nanocomposite glasses by femtosecond laser pulses.- Micrometer and sub-micrometer structures fabrication and analysis with femtosecond laser micro-nanomachining system.- Femtosecond Laser Effects on Osseous Tissues.- Femtosecond Laser Material Processing - How Short is Short?.- Diode-pumped Cr3+:LiCAF Laser for Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography.- Time-resolved electron imaging of femtosecond laser ablation.- Frequency Stabilization and Ultrawide Frequency Comb.- A new ultrastable cesium optical atomic clock with a 9.1926-GHz regeneratively mode-locked fiber laser.- Frequency transfer of optical standards through a fiber network using 1550-nm mode-locked sources.- Femtosecond laser optical frequency synthesizers with uncertainty at the 10?19 level.- Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs with linewidths at the 1-Hz Level.- Frequency metrology with a turnkey all-fiber system.- Optical frequency measurement precision of femtosecond laser optical comb system and the stability of its HF reference frequency.- Evaluation of oscillation frequency stability of a diode laser using a fs laser optical comb.- Coherent Control and Other Topics.- Coherent cooling of molecular vibrational motion with laser-induced dipole forces.- Molecular orientation of CH3F induced by phase-controlled lights.- Observation and manipulation of quantum interferences in ladder climbing.- Adaptive polarization control of molecular dynamics.- Two-photon absorption imaging with shaped femtosecond laser pulses.- Selective two-photon functional imaging through scattering media based on binary phase shaping.- Photon number squeezing of ultrabroadband pulses generated by microstructure fibers.- Real-time, ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography at 1.5 µm using a femtosecond fiber laser continuum.- Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Organic Nanotubes.- Ultrafast molecule to semiconductor electron transfer via different anchor groups in ultra-high vacuum.- Controllability in dissociative ionization of organic molecules with pulse-shaped intense laser fields.- Laser Coulomb explosion imaging for probing molecular structure and dynamics.- Ultrafast electron transfer via a bridge-extended donor orbital.- Multiple Ionization of Atoms by 25 and 7 fs Laser Pulses.- Time Resolved, Phase-Matched Harmonic Generation from Exploding Noble Gas Clusters.