Ultrafast Phenomena IX

I Overview and General Topics.- Ultrafast Solid-State Lasers: Status and Prospects.- Applications of the Chronocyclic Representation of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Development of Practical Femtosecond Lasers.- Brave New Nanoworld: Probing the Realm of Ultrafast, Ultrasmall Electronics.- Real-World Ultrafast Semiconductor Laser-Diode Sources.- "Coherent Control?" Is not a Question.- High-Harmonic Generation: The Route to Attosecond Pulses.- Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Techniques in Laser Medicine.- Sub-10 fs Pulse Generation in Ti:Sapphire: Capabilities and Ultimate Limits.- Pulse Shaping and Spectral Filtering for High-Speed Optical Networks.- Quantum Control of Vibrational Dynamics with Tailored Light Pulses.- Coherent Control: Optics, Molecules, and Materials.- II Elementary Dynamics: Chemistry, Biology, and Physics.- Electronic-Relaxation Dynamics in Solution.- Vibrational Dynamics in Liquids and Glasses Probed with Infrared Photon Echoes Using a Free-Electron Laser.- Ultrafast Optical and Vibrational Studies of Some Simple Chemical Reactions in Solutions.- Transient Resonance Impulsive Stimulated Raman-Scattering Study of Nascent Diiodide Ions: Experiment and Simulation.- Direct Transient-Absorption Spectroscopy and Absorption Anisotropy of the Solvated Electron in Water and Alcohols.- Femtosecond Dynamics in Polar Liquids.- Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics in Gases and Liquids Through Photon Echoes with Incoherent Light.- Coherence in Photodissociation-Recombination Dynamics of I2 Isolated in Rare-Gas Solids.- Broad-Band Transient-IR Spectroscopy of Metal-Carbonyl Photochemistry.- Chemical-Substitution and Deuterium-Isotope Effects on Ultrafast Intermolecular Electron Transfer: Possible Role of Molecular Vibrations.- Vibrational Relaxation of a Charged Species in Non-Polar Solvent.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Aggregate Excitons in Liquids.- Locally Ordered Structures in Molecular Liquids Revealed with Femtosecond Fourier-Transform Raman Spectroscopy.- Femtosecond Studies of Charge Separation in the Fluorescent State of DCM.- Coherent Optical Polarization of Large Coherence-Length Frenkel Excitons in Pseudoisocyanine J Aggregates.- Local Order and Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics of Liquids: Subpicosecond Transient-Grating Optical Kerr-Effect Experiments.- Femtosecond Dynamics in Hydrogen-Bonding Solvents: Temperature Dependence of the Inertial and Diffusive Relaxation of Liquid Acetic Acid.- Optical Dephasing Dynamics in Room-Temperature Liquids.- Electronic Dephasing in Mixed Crystals and Glasses at High Pressure.- On the Role of Quantum Interference in the Free-Induction Decay from Wave-Packet Systems.- Femtosecond Two-Dimensional Raman Spectroscopy of Liquid Water.- Einstein Causality in Time-Resolved Intra-Atom Quantum Correlations.- Vibrationally Resolved Reaction Dynamics in the Condensed Phase: Excited Product States of DCN.- Solvent Dependence of the Femtosecond Three-Pulse Photon Echo for LD690 in n-Alcohols.- Attractive and Repulsive Forces in the Decay of Vibrational Coherence.- III Spectroscopy and Advances in Measurements.- Interferometric Measurements of Femtosecond Laser-Cavity Dispersion.- Near-Field Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy on Single Molecules and Photosynthetic Membranes.- Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: Measuring the Intensity and Phase of an Ultrashort Laser Pulse.- Spatio-Temporal Holography.- Programmable Femtosecond-Pulse Shaping and Spectroscopy.- Real-Time Two-Photon Confocal Microscopy Using a Femtosecond, Amplified Ti:Sapphire System.- Integrated Atomic Force Microscope and Ultrafast Sampling Probe.- Single-Shot, Pulse-Length-Limited Ultrafast Transient-Absorption Spectroscopy.- Observation of Fifth-Order Optical Response of Liquid CS2 by Non-Resonant Six-Wave Mixing.- Group-Delay Dispersion Measurement of Laser Mirrors by Spectrally Resolved White-Light Interferometry.- Intensity and Phase Measurements of Femtosecond Pulses from a Chirped-Pulse Amplifier.- Femtosecond Time Resolution in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.- A Dual-Beam Sub-Picosecond Spectrometer for the 5-11 ?m Spectral Region and Its Application to Vibrational Relaxation in the S1 State.- Ultrafast Vibrational Energy Relaxation in [(NC)5MIICNMIII(NH3)5]1? (M = Ru, Os) Studied by Picosecond Infrared Spectroscopy.- Liquid-Water Dynamics Probed by Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy.- IV Sources.- All-Solid-State Diode-Pumped CW Femtosecond Cr:LiSrAlF6 Lasers.- A Self-Mode-Locked Ti:Al2O3 Laser Pumped by a Frequency-Doubled Nd:YLF Minilaser.- Sub-100 fs Homogeneously and Inhomogeneously Broadened Nd:Glass Lasers.- Nonlinear Interactions in a Two-Color Cross-Mode-Locked fs Ti:Sapphire Laser.- Ultrashort-Pulse Multi-Terawatt Ti:Sapphire Laser System.- Amplification in Ti:Sapphire at the Gain-Narrowing Limit.- Operation Parameters of Antiresonant Fabry-Perot Saturable Absorbers for Passively Mode-Locked Solid-State Lasers.- Passive Mode-Locking of a Flashlamp-Pumped Ti:Al2O3 Laser.- Tunable Femtosecond Pulses in the Visible by Optical Parametric Amplification.- Production of Programable Amplified, Shaped Pulses in Femtosecond Lasers.- All-Solid-State Laser System for the Generation of Tunable Femtosecond Pulses down to 175 nm.- Infrared-Pulse Generation Using a Subpicosecond OPO.- Chirped-Pulse Amplification of Ultrashort Pulses Using Neodymium- and Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers.- High-Repetition-Rate Blue-Pumped ?BaB2O4 Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Tunable in the Visible.- Femtosecond-Pulse Generation at 1.3 ?m from a Praseodymium-Fibre Laser.- Tunable Femtosecond Sources and Optical Parametric Generators.- Ultraviolet Picosecond-Pulse Amplification in a New Solid-State-Laser Medium: Ce3+:LuLiF4.- Soliton Compression in a Nonlinear Amplifying-Loop Mirror.- Femtosecond Cr4+:YAG Laser.- Sub-40 fs Pulse Generation in a KTP-Based Parametric Oscillator.- Use of Monolithic Tunable Laser Diodes for Chirped-Pulse Amplification in Fiber Amplifiers.- Coherent Pulse Shaping in a Self-Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire Laser.- Intracavity Doubling in Ti:Sapphire.- Optical Parametric Amplification of the White-Light-Continuum Components at 250 kHz from a Ti:Sapphire Regenerative Amplifier.- 40 GHz Soliton-Train Generation Through Multisoliton Pulse Propagation in a Dispersion-Varying Optical-Fiber Circuit.- Robust Pulse-Shaping Techniques for Quantum Molecular Control.- V High-Intensity and Nonlinear Effects.- Climbing a Ladder System by Frequency-Chirped Laser Pulses.- Coherence Properties of High-Order Harmonic Radiation.- Use of Self-Trapped Filaments in Air to Trigger Lightning.- Optical Breakdown in Wide-Band-Gap Materials as a Function of Pulse Duration.- Laser-Solid Interaction at 1018-1019 W/cm2.- Electron Energies in Field-Ionized Laser Plasmas.- Mode Properties of a High Intensity Plasma Waveguide.- Self-Channeling of High Peak-Power Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Air.- Observation of the Dynamics of Electron-Plasma Oscillations in Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Intrastromal Corneal Reshaping Using Near-Infrared Picosecond Laser Pulses.- Damage Threshold as a Function of Pulse Duration in Biological Tissue.- Ultrafast Observation of an Electron Gas in SiO2.- Multielectron Dissociative Ionization of Chlorine Molecules in Intense Femto- and Picosecond Laser Fields: A Puzzling Result.- Programmable Wave-Function Engineering in Cs Rydberg States.- Phase-Matching Optima for High-Order Multiwave Mixing and Harmonic Generation Beyond the Perturbation Limit.- A 3-D Numerical Code for the Propagation of Optical Pulses in Nonlinear Media.- Time-Resolved Thermionic Electron Emission and Non-Thermal Ion Emission from Au Excited by Intense fs Pulses.- Phase-Sensitive Characterization of Short-Scale-Length Plasmas.- An Efficient K? X-Ray Source from Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Nonlinear Plasma Waves Resonantly Driven by Optimized Laser-Pulse Trains.- Hybrid Grating-Prism Stretcher-Compressor System with Cubic Phase and Wavelength Tunability, and Decreased Alignment Sensitivity.- Time-Gated X-Ray Imaging Using an Ultrashort-Pulse, Laser-Produced-Plasma X-Ray Source.- VI Metals, Surfaces, and Materials.- Ultrafast Electronic Processes in Porous Silicon.- Terahertz Spectroscopy of Silicon-Micromachined Three-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Crystal.- Time-Domain Interferometric Measurement of Photonic Band Structure in a One-Dimensional Quasicrystal.- Microscopic Study of Ferroelectrics with Ultrashort Phonon Polaritons.- Adsorbate Infrared Spectral Response Following Femtosecond Metal-Substrate Heating.- Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy of Liquids and Liquid/Air Interfaces with Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Ultrafast Time-Resolved Dynamics of Hot-Electron Distributions in Silicon.- Direct Observation of Ultrafast Ionic Screening.- Ultrafast Isomerization Dynamics at Interfaces by Time-Resolved Second-Harmonic Generation.- Femtosecond Photoemission Studies of Electron Relaxation at Cu Surfaces.- Femtosecond Time-Resolved Studies of Nan and Hgn Metal Clusters.- Real-Time Vibrational Dynamics of K2.- Femtosecond Studies of Photoinduced Electron Dynamics at the Liquid-Solid Interface of Semiconductor Nano-Particles in Water.- Impulsive Stimulated Raman Scattering and Coherent Soft Phonons in LaAlO3.- Femtosecond Switching of the Solid-State Phase Transition in VO2.- Femtosecond Exciton Dynamics in Polyaniline and Polyaniline-Polymethyl Mathacrylate.- Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics of Photoexcitations in Nanometer-Size Amorphous Selenium Clusters.- Femtosecond Optical Spectroscopy of Partially Deoxygenated Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films.- Terahertz Emission by Coherent Lattice Vibrations in Tellurium.- Femtosecond Measurements of Ballistic and Interactive Transport of Non-Equilibrium Electrons in Thin Gold Films.- Observation of Coherent Surface-Optical Phonons by Time-Resolved Second-Harmonic Generation.- VII Semiconductors, Quantum Confinement, and Optoelectronics.- Time-Resolved Studies of Bloch Oscillations in Semiconductor Superlattices.- Dynamics of Coherently Excited Semiconductor Microcavities.- Femtosecond Ellipsometric Study of Carrier Dynamics in Si1-xGex.- Advances in Ultrafast Scanning-Probe Microscopy.- Time-Resolved Nonlinear Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Semiconductor Microdisks.- Ultrafast Dynamics in CdSe Nanocrystals.- Interplay Between Inhomogeneous Broadening and Coulomb Interaction in the Dynamics of Excitonic Wave Packets.- A Four-Wave-Mixing Study of Electron Scattering in Modulation-Doped GaAS Quantum Wells in High Magnetic Field.- Femtosecond Coherent Generation of Hot Electrons Monitored Via Band-to-Acceptor Luminescence in GaAs.- Terahertz Study of Field Screening: 10-100 fs Regime.- Extremely Fast Biexcitonic Radiative Decay in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Bound and Unbound Two-Exciton Contributions to the Nonlinear Optical Response of GaAs Quantum Wells.- Femtosecond Coherent Spectroscopy of Excitonic and Free-Carrier Polarizations in Bulk GaAs.- Carrier Transport in 1.5 ?m Quantum-Well Laser Structures.- Influence of Inhomogeneous Broadening on Quantum Beats.- Time-Resolved Optoelectronic Measurements of Nitrogen-Implanted GaAs Crystals.- Calculation of Photogenerated Carrier Escape Rates from Single GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs Quantum Wells.- Picosecond Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer for Optoelectronic IC Device Characterization.- Upper Satellite Conduction-Band Population Dynamics in GaAs.- Nonlinear Optical Studies of Microstructured GaAs/AlAs.- Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Holes in p-Type Germanium Studied by Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy.- Excitation-Induced Phase Shifts of Heavy- and Light-Hole Quantum Beats in Multiple Quantum Wells.- Rabi Flopping in Semiconductors.- Femtosecond Blue-Continuum Generation and Its Application to the Study of ZnS:Mn Nanocrystals.- Terathertz Radiation from Delta-Doped GaAs.- Transient Reflective-Polarization Spectroscopy of Hidden Anisotropy in Cubic Crystals.- Dominant Biexcitonic Nonlinear Response in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Enhancement of Coherent Charge Oscillations in Coupled Quantum Wells by Femtosecond Pulse Shaping.- Femtosecond Spectral Hole Burning in InGaAs/AlGaAs Strained-Layer Single-Quantum-Well Diode Lasers.- Optical Enhancement of Terahertz Emission from Bulk Semi-Insulating GaAs.- Pulse-Doped GaAs Nonlinear Transmission Lines for 630 fs, 1 V Transients.- Generation of Tunable Narrow-Band Free-Space Terahertz Radiation.- AC-Stark Effect of the Fermi-Edge Singularity: Observation of "Excitonic Polarons?".- Femtosecond Carrier Dynamics at InP/Liquid Interfaces in the Presence of Electric Fields.- Observation of Biexcitons in Time-Resolved Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing on GaAs Quantum Wells.- Picosecond Dynamics of Carrier Cooling in CdSe: Reduced Energy-Loss Rates Caused by Hot-Phonon Effects.- Ultrafast Magnetoexciton Dynamics in GaAs.- VIII Biology: Primary Dynamics, Electron and Energy Transfer.- Direct Observation of Vibrational Dephasing in Functional Proteins.- Femtosecond Vibrationally Coherent Photochemistry in the Primary Event in Vision.- Femtosecond Energy Transfer and Coherent Oscillations in BChl c Light-Harvesting Antennae of Chlorosomes from the Green Photosynthetic Bacterium Chloroflexus Aurantiacus.- Time-Resolved Infrared Studies of Ultrafast Protein Dynamics Triggered by CO Photodissociation from CO Myoglobin.- Femtosecond Coherence Spectroscopy of Heme Proteins.- Coherent Nuclear Motions and Exciton-State Dynamics in Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Pigments.- Direct Observation of the Accessory Bacteriochlorophyll in the Primary Electron Transfer in Bacterial Reaction Centers.- Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center.- Ultrafast Energy Transfer in the Core Light-Harvesting Complex of the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Observed by Fluorescence Upconversion.- Ultrafast Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Carbonmonoxymyoglobin: The Dynamics of Ligand Motion.- Vibrational Dynamics at the Active Site of Myoglobin: Picosecond Infrared Free-Electron-Laser Experiments.- Ultrafast Isomerization Dynamics of 11-cis-Locked 8-Membered Rhodopsin.- Direct Determination of the S2 Lifetime of ?-Carotene by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy.- Femtosecond Transient-Grating Studies of Electron Transfer in Porphyrin and Chlorophyll Donor-Acceptor Molecules.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectrum of Batho-Rhodopsin at Room Temperature: Effect of Changing Rhodopsin Concentration.- Fluorescence of the Protonated and Unprotonated Schiff Base of Retinal at Room Temperature.- Picosecond Laser-Induced Electric-Field Modulation of Carotenoid Absorption Bands.- Time-Resolved Fluorescence Anisotropy in Chromophore Pairs.- Excited-State Processes and Photoinduced Antiviral Activity in Hypericin.- Primary Electron-Transfer Steps in Photosystem I Reaction Center with Reduced Number of Antenna Chlorophylls (12-30 Chls/P700).- Distinguishing Between Energy- and Electron-Transfer Processes in Photosystem II Reaction Centres.- IX Chemistry: Electron and Energy Transfer and Solvation Dynamics.- Coupled-Oscillator Representation of Many-Body Effects in Ultrafast Optical Response.- Femtosecond Photon-Echo Study of Solution Dynamics Using a Cavity-Dumped Ti:Sapphire Laser.- Mechanical Relaxation and Solvation Dynamics in Non-Polar Solutions.- Determination of Two-Pulse Photon Echoes from Solvent Spectral Densities.- Development of Femtosecond Resonance-Raman-Gain Spectroscopy and Observation of the Vibrational Spectrum of Excitons with 1 ps Lifetime in Polydiacetylene.- Use of Phase-Locked Pulse Sequences for Probing the Degradation of Chiral Coherences.- Deep-Ultraviolet Femtosecond Multiphoton-Ionization Studies of the Excited-State Dynamics of Small Gas-Phase Molecules.- The "Dynamical Hole": Ground-State Vibrational Coherence Induced by Resonant Impulsive Excitation.- Femtosecond Spectroscopy of the Gain Band of a Styryl Dye: The Band Shape in Terms of Solvation Dynamics.- Vibrational Relaxation of I2- in Polar and Non-Polar Solvents.- Ultrafast Dynamics as Reflected in MPI-Photoelectron Spectra: Aniline, Azulene, Phenanthrene, and Carbon Disulfide.- Solvent Influence on Barrier Crossing in the S1 State of cis- and trans-"Stiff"-Stilbene.- Coherence Transfer in Photoinitiated Solution-Phase Chemical Reactions.- Coherent Evolution Following Photolysis of Mn2(CO)10.- Direct Measurement of the Nuclear and Solvent Contributions to the Electron-Transfer Dynamics in Mixed-Valence Metal Dimers.- Resonance Transient-Population-Grating Spectroscopy of Ultrafast-Solvation Dynamics.- Importance of Femtosecond Solvent Motions on Electron-Transfer Reactions: A Study of Electrolyte Solutions.- Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Non-Adiabatic Photoisomerization Processes: Semiclassical Modeling.- Femtosecond Spectroscopic Studies of Barrierless Excited-State Decay of Triphenylmethane Dye Molecules in Alcohol Solutions.- Polarized Ultrafast Transient Spectroscopy of the Hydrated Electron: Quantum Non-Adiabatic Molecular-Dynamics Simulation.- Ultrafast Dynamics of the Excited Mesitylene Br-Atom·EDA Complex.- Index of Contributors.