Ultrafast Phenomena X

I Ultrafast Lasers and Sources.- Advances in All-Solid-State Ultrafast Lasers.- Physics and Scaling of Saturable Bragg Reflector-Modelocked Diode-Pumped Solid State Ultrafast Lasers.- Ultrabroad-Band Ring Oscillator for Short Pulse Generation.- Frequency-Dependent Mode-Size in Kerr-Lens Modelocked Lasers.- Toward Coherent Control on a Sub-10fs Time Scale.- Generation Dynamics of Solid-State Lasers Mode Locked by Antiresonant Loop.- Ultraviolet Picosecond Pulses from an All-Solid-State Ce:Flouride Master Oscillator and Power Amplifier System.- High-Power and Frequency-Doubled Stretched-Pulse Fiber Laser.- An Electronically Wavelength Tunable Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Using an All-Fiber Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter.- Femtosecond Chirped-Pulse Multifrequency Sources.- "Pulse Shaping" of Incoherent Light by Use of a Liquid Crystal Modulator Array.- High-Resolution Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping for Quantum Control and Terabit per Second Communications.- 10- to 80-Gb/s, Highly Extinctive Electrooptic Pulse Pattern Generation.- II Parameteric Generation.- Ultrafast Visible Optical Parametric Oscillators: A Route to Tunable Sub-10-Femtosecond Pulses?.- Tunable 50 fs Pulses in the Visible by Up-Conversion of Parametrically Generated Pulses in the Near Infrared.- A Potassium Niobate OPA Pumped by an Amplified Ti:Sapphire Laser.- Midinfrared Femtosecond Pulse Generation Using a 250 kHz Ti:Sapphire Pumped BBO OPA and DFG in AgGaS2.- Generation and Applications of Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses Obtained by Optical Rectification of 15-fs Near-Infrared Pulses.- Fiber Laser Pumped Femtosecond Optical Parametric Generator.- III Terahertz Sources and Techniques.- Previously Impossible Measurements Made Possible by THz-Time-Domain Spectroscopy.- Noncontact Semiconductor Wafer Characerization with T-Rays.- Electro-Optic Imaging of THz Beams.- High Resolution Sub-Millimeter Spectroscopy Using Mode-Locked Laser Driven Electro-Optic Antennas.- Pulsed Terahertz Spectroscopy of Solutions: Experiment and Memory Function Analysis.- Free-Space Electro-Optic Samplers.- Tunable Photoconducting Emitters and Detectors of Free Space Terahertz Radiation.- Superradiant Terahertz Emission from Bloch Oscillations.- Transient Grating with Asymmetric Arms for Electro-Optic Generation of THz Radiation.- Terahertz Waveform Synthesis and Enhanced Narrow-Band Terahertz Generation Using Femtosecond Pulse Shaping.- Diffracting Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy Using Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses.- IV High Brightness Light Pulses: Systems and Techniques.- Generation of 25 TW, 32 fs Pulses at 10 Hz.- Sub-20-fs Multiterawatt Laser and Ultrafast X-Ray Source.- 16 fs Pulse Generation and Measurement in the Ultraviolet and Vacuum Ultraviolet.- High Energy 10 fs Pulses by a New Pulse Compression Technique Using Hollow Quartz Waveguides.- On the Pulse Quality Limitations in Ultrashort Chirped Pulse Amplification.- Chirped-Pulse Amplifiaction with a Fiber Stretcher and a Grism Compressor.- Regenerative Pulse Shaping: A New Technique for Ultrabroadband Amplification.- Compensation of SPM-Induced Pulse Distortions in Chirped-Pulse Amplification Systems.- V High-Field Physics and X-Ray Generation.- Laser Electron Interactions at Critical Field Strength.- Nonlinear Optics in the Relativistic Regime.- Excitation of Surface Electromagnetic Waves in High-Temperature Near-Surface Plasmas; Resonance Second Harmonic Generation.- Selfchannelling of Intense Femtosecond Optical Pulses Through Air in the Transient Regime.- Enhanced Ionization of Molecular Ions in Intense Laser Fields: Experiments on the Iodine Melecule.- Direct Observation of Coherent Two-Photon Medium Response Induced by Femtosecond Deep UV-Laser Pulses in Krytpon.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Pump-Probe XUV Absorption L-Edge Spectroscopy.- Measurement of High Harmonic Pulse Durations Via Laser Assisted X-Ray Photoionization.- Energy Penetration of Ultrahigh Intensity Short Laser Pulses into Overdense Plasmas Through Solitons.- Observation of Relativistic Self-Focusing, Self-Channeling and Filamentation of Multiterawatt Ultra-Short Laser Pulses in Optical-Field Ionized Argon Gas Jets.- Harmonic Generation from a Sharp Plasma-Vacuum Boundary.- Enhanced High-Harmonic Generation with Ultrashort 25 fs Pulses.- Femtosecond X-Rays Generated via 90° Thomson Scattering.- Double-Pulse Pumped Efficient X-Ray Laser Utilizing Transient Gain.- Generation of Short-Pulse XUV Radiation by Phase-Matched High-Order Difference-Frequency Mixing in Plasmas.- Measurement of Laser Wakefield Oscillations by Femtosecond Longitudinal Interferometry.- VI Applications of Femtosecond Sources and Novel Techniques.- Multiphoton Molecular Excitation to Illuminate Non-linear Laser Microscopy.- Two-Photon Excitation Scanning Microscopy with a Compact SBR-Modelocked Diode-Pumped Cr:LiSAF Laser.- Two-Photon Excited Flourescence Microscopy with Time and Wavelength Resolved Detection.- Femtosecond Optical Spectroscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy.- Ultrafast Equal Pulse Correlation Measurements in GaAs Structures with a Near-Field Microscope.- Optical Coherence Tomographic Imaging Using a Mode Locked Cr4+:Forsterite Laser Source.- Modelling of the Propagation of Light in Turbid Media from Femtosecond Pulse Transmission Measurements.- Temporal Polarization Gating of Light Propagating in Highly Scattering Medium.- Atomic Streak Camera Probing of Wave Packet Decay Plus a FIR Streak Camera Concept.- Demonstration of a Sub-Picosecond X-Ray Streak Camera.- Time-Space Conversion Using Chirped Pulses for Three-Dimensional Shape Measurements.- 3-D Optical Storage and Engraving Inside Transparent Materials.- Multi-Dimensional Femtosecond Pulse Shaping.- Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating Using Surface Third-Harmonic Generation.- Complete Temporal Characterization of the Polarization State of Weak Ultrashort Signals.- Recent Developments in Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: Measurement of Ultraweak Ultrashort Pulses.- 13 fs Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating Measurements with Thin Poled Nonlinear Polymers.- Spectrally-Resolved, DC-Balanced Homodyne Detection for Ultrafast, Multimode, Quantum Field State Measurement.- Measuring Femtosecond Pulses with Linear Optics and Nonlinear Electronics.- Probing Ultrashort Electrical Pulses by Optical Second Harmonic Generation.- All-Optical Recognition of Terabit-per-Second Bit Patterns.- Femtosecond Time-Resolved Phase Spectroscopy Using a Novel Sagnac Interferometer.- Dynamical Studies of Non-linear Refractive Index by Cross Phase Modulation.- Broadband Fiber Dispersion Compensation for Sub-100-Femtosecond Pulses with Compression Ratio of 300.- Parametric Trapping and Self-Ordering of Solitons.- VII Ultrafast Coherent Techniques, Wavepacket Motion and Coherent Control.- Wavepacket Dynamics via Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photoelectron and Photoionization Spectroscopy.- Mapping of Vibrational Wave Packet Motion and Coherent Control of Molecular Ionization by a Chirped fs Laser Pulse.- Vibrational Wave Packet Propagation Dynamics in the Dissociative K3 Molecule.- Preparation and Interrogation of Vibronic Coherences in Condensed Media: I2 Isolated in Condensed Rare Gases.- Temperature Dependent Electronic Dephasing of Molecules in Polymers Measured by Femtosecond Three Pulse Photon Echoes.- Photon Echo Measurements in Liquids Using Pulses Longer Than the Electronic Dephasing Time.- Wavepacket Motion Observed in an Ultrafast Electron Transfer System.- Selective Excitation of Wavepacket Motion in the Condensed Phase Using Chirped Pulses.- Wavepacket Dynamics in Polydiacetylene Thin Films.- Role of Symmetry Breaking in Transfer of Vibrational Coherence from Reactant to Product.- Enhancement of Degenerate Four Wave Mixing from a Conjugated Polymer by Femtosecond Optical Pumping.- Femtosecond 3 Pulse Stimulated Photon Echo Peak Shift Measurements of Organic Polymer Glass from Room Temperature to 30 K.- Femtosecond Nonlinear Investigations of Molecular Motion in Liquids.- Coherent Control in Ultrafast Photon Echo Spectroscopy: Liouville-Space Pathways Interference.- On the Strong-Field Quantum Control Problem in Matter.- Quantum Control from the Gas to Condensed Phase.- Optimal Sequences for Chirped-Pulse-Stimulated Vibrational Motion.- Vibrational Mode Suppression in the Non-Markovian Limit: Diagonal Time-Gating of the Stimulated Photon Echo.- VIII Ultrafast Photochemistry.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Intermolecular Electron Transfer.- Factoring the Contribution of Through-Space and Through-Bond Interactions to Rates of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Donor-Spacer-Acceptor Molecules Using Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy.- Femtosecond Electron Transfer and Real Time Investigation of a Disulfide Bond Formation.- Electron Tranfer in the Hexamethylbenzene/Tetracyanoethylene Charge-Transfer Complex in the Supercritical Fluids.- Femtosecond IR Studies of Alkane C-H Bond Activation by Organometallic Compounds.- Ultrafast Reactions Involving Small Molecules in Solutions.- Photophysics and Photochemistry of the Solvated Electron in Higher Alcohols and Excited State Inertial Dynamics of the Hydrated Electron.- Ultrafast Infrared Study of the UV Photodissociation of Mn2(CO)10.- Ultrafast Vibrational Relaxation and Ligand Photodissociation/Photoassociation Processes of Nickel(II) Porphyrins in Condensed Phase.- Formation of Diphenylacetylene Following the Photodissociation of Diphenylcyclopropenone in Solution.- Transient Product Vibrational Population Distribution in the Femtosecond Photodissociation of Triiodide.- Ultrafast Study of the Photodissociation and Recombination of Aqueous O3-.- Solvent Effects on the Ultrafast Dynamics of Chlorine Dioxide Photochemistry.- The Reflection of Predissociation Dynamics in Pump/Probe Photoelectron Distributions.- Femtosecond VIS and IR Spectroscopy of the Photoisomerisation of the Protonated Schiff Base of Retinal.- Comparison of the Photochemical Ring Opening of Cyclohexadiene and Dehydrocholesterol in Solution, Studied by Ultrafast Absorption Spectroscopy.- The Photochemical Dynamics of Trans-1,3,5-Hexatriene in Solution Investigated by the Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy.- First Example of Ultrafast Photoisomerisation-Like Photophysics for Tetrapyrrol Systems: Ethylene-Bridged Porphyrin Dimers.- Femtosecond Studies of Isomerization and Energy Relaxation in Small Polyenes.- Ultrafast Photophysics and Stimulated Emission from Novel Conjugated Polymers and Blends.- Molecular ATI and ATD with Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Primary Ultrafast Events in the Proton Transfer Reaction from Excited Pyranine to Water.- Chemical Reaction Observed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption.- IX Dynamics in the Condensed Phase.- Phase-Locked Femtosecond Photon Echo: A New Dimension in Ultrafast Spectroscopy.- Coherent and Incoherent Dynamics of Large Molecules in Solution Studied on a 20 Femtosecond Time Scale.- Femtosecond Studies of Exciton Dynamics in a Novel Optically Active Conjugated Polymer.- "Bubble" Dynamics Following Rydberg State Excitation in Rare Gas Matrices.- Electronic and Vibrational Dephasing in Solution by Dynamic Symmetry Breaking.- Comparison of Spontaneous and Impulsive Stimulated Resonance Raman Excitation Profiles.- New Advances in Measuring Hydrogen Bonding Dynamics.- Vibrational Phase and Energy Relaxation of the Cyanide Ion in Water.- Temperature-Dependence of the Ultrafast Intermolecular Dynamics of Amides: Formamide, N-Methylformamide, N,N-Dimethylformamide, N-Methylacetamide, and N-Methylpropionamide from 290-370 K.- Temporally One- and Two-Dimensional Spectroscopies on Overtone Vibrational Dephasing of Liquids.- Femtosecond IR Studies of Solvation by Probing the Solvent.- Time-Domain Observation of Nuclear Vibrational Motion in Glasses.- Temperature-Dependent Dynamics of CS2: An OHD-RIKES Study.- Femtosecond Analysis of the Spinning Motion of Liquid Crystal Molecules in Smectic A Phases.- X Energy and Electron Transfer in Photosynthesis.- Excitation Transfer and Trapping in Photosynthesis.- Elementary Excitation in Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria: How Big Is It?.- Polarized Pump Probe Spectroscopy on the LH-1 Antenna of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at Room Temperature.- Excited State Dynamics and Exciton Derealization in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes at Low Temperature.- Femtosecond Dynamics Within the B820 Dimeric Subunit from the Core Antenna Complex of Rs. rubrum.- Level-to Level Electronic Energy Transfers in a Bacteriochlorophyll ? - Protein Antenna Complex.- Inertial Protein-Matrix Solvation of a Light-Harvesting Chromophore.- Femtosecond Infrared Studies of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: New Charge Transfer Bands and Ultrafast Energy Redistribution.- The Primary Electron Transfer in Bacterial Reaction Centers with Altered Energetics of the Primary Acceptor.- Adiabetic Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers-Fiction or Reality?.- Intermediates in Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers of Purple Bacteria.- Optical Coherence and Anisotropy Studies of the First Events in Photosynthesis.- Energy Tranfer in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center.- Primary Processes in Heliobacteria Studied by Selective Excitation of Pigments.- Primary Charge Separation in Photosystem II.- Observation of an Intermediate Step During Primary Charge Separation by Photosystem Two.- Quantum Beats in the Reaction Center of Photosystem II.- XI Ultrafast Processes in Chromoproteins: Ligand Dynamics, Relaxation and Isomerisation.- The Primary Processes in Heme Protein Relaxation: The Coupled Reaction Coordinate Problem in Molecular Cooperativity.- New Features in the Ultrafast Ligand Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in Myoglobin.- Ultrafast Photoisomerization of Retinal in Bacteriorhodopsin: A New Twist.- A Comparative Study of the Initial Photoinduced Event in Bacteriorhodopsin: Can It Be Isomerization?.- A Femtosecond Absorption Study of Urocanic Acid.- Time Resolved Electron Transfer Studies Between Metallointercalators in DNA.- Charge-Transfer Dynamics in Blue Copper Proteins: Experiment and Simulation.- XII Coherent Spectroscopy of Semiconductors.- Femtosecond Coherent Spin Control in Quantum Wells.- Coherent Excitation of Megnetoexciton Wavepackets.- Ultrafast Coherent Spin Torques in Magnetic Quantum Wells.- Spin Quantum Beats in Bulk and Low Dimensional Semiconductors.- Magnetic Field Dependence of Exciton Spin Dynamics in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Spin Repolarization in Interacting Exciton Gas.- Photocarrier Relaxation in the Quantum Kinetics Regime.- Ultrafast Ellipsometry of Coherent Processes and Exciton-Exciton Interactions in Semiconductors.- Coupled Bloch-Phonon Oscillations in Superlattices.- Heavy-Light Hole Quantum Beats in the Band-to-Band Continuum of Bulk GaAs Studied in 20 fs Pump-Probe Experiments.- Enhanced Radiative Decay and Optical Dephasing of Excitons in GaAs Quantum Well Bragg Structures.- Coherent THz Plasmons in GaAs Schottky Diodes.- Observation of Coherent Local Surface Phonons on Clean GaAs Surfaces.- XIII Ultrafast Processes in Semiconductors and Solids.- Inter-Subband Scattering and Thermalization of Electrons in Quantum Wells Studied with Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses.- Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Intersubband Hot Hole Relaxation in Quantum Wells.- Sub-Picosecond Far-Infrared Transient-Grating Measurements of Electron Cooling in InAs and GaSb.- Hot Electron Reaction Dynamics at GaAs(100) Surface Quantum Wells.- Ultrafast Gain in Semiconductors.- Femtosecond Kinetics of Freely Relaxing Non-Fermi Carrier Distributions in GaAs.- Determination of the Electron Mobility in Multiple Quantum Wells by Time-Resolved Optical Measurements.- Ultrafast Excitation and Deexcitation of Local Vibrational Modes in a Solid Matrix: The Si-H Bond in Amorphous Silicon.- Femtosecond Carrier Spin Dynamics in CdTe/Cd0.6Mn0.4Te Quantum Wells.- Spin Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Nickel Films.- Saturation of the Two-Photon Absorption in CdS.- Femtosecond Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in a 350 ?m Undoped InP at Far Below Band Gap.- XIV Microcavities and Dots.- Coherence Transfer in Exciton-Exciton Scattering in a Semiconductor Microcavity.- Ultrafast Oscillations in the Optical Emission from a Semiconductor Microcavity.- Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in Strain-Induced InGaAs Quantum Dots.- Ultrafast Dephasing Dynamics and Multi-Level Electronic Structure of InP Nanocrystals.- Size Dependent Absorption Anisotropy Measurements of CdSe Nanocrystals: Symmetry Assignments for the Lowest Electronic States.- Interfacial Electron Transfer in Dye Sensitised Nanocrystalline TiO2 Films.- Ultrafast Ionization Dynamics in Laser-Driven Clusters.- Ultrafast Line-Broadening of the Surface Plasmon in Au-Colloids Embedded in a Dielectric Sol-Gel Matrix.- Confinement Effects on the Electron Thermalization Process in Tin Nanocrystals.- Quasi-Zero-Dimensional Media Formed by Thin-Film Technique: Microstructure, Subpicosecond Optical Nonlinearities, Applications.- XV Metals and Surfaces.- Femtosecond Studies of Electron Dynamics in Two Dimensions.- Time-Resolved Two-Color Photoelectron Spectroscopy at Bare and Adsorbate Covered Metal Surfaces.- Hot-Electron Dynamics at Cu Surfaces.- Applications of Femtosecond Lasers to Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Process Control of Si(001) Interfaces.- Surface Second Harmonic Generation from the Si/SiO2 Interface Using 10 fs Pulses.- Ultrafast Surface Reaction and Desorption Probed by Femtosecond Second Harmonic Generation: Cl Etching of Si(111) Surface.- Laser-Induced Softening of Coherent Phonons: Pathway to Nonthermal Melting.- Ultrafast Nonlinearity of Metallic Indium Across the Liquid-Solid Transition.- Electron-Lattice Heating from Avalanche Ionization in Silicon with Near Infrared Ultrafast Laser Pulses.- Femtosecond Melting Rates of Crystalline and Amorphous Column IV Elements.- Index of Contributors.