Ultrafast Phenomena V

I Mode Locking and Ultrashort Pulse Generation.- Passive and Hybrid Femtosecond Operation of a Linear Astigmatism Compensated Dye Laser.- Generation of 55-fs Pulses and Variable Spectral Windowing in a Linear-Cavity Synchronously Pumped cw Dye Laser.- Cavity-Mirror Dispersion Dependence of Pulse Duration Generated from a Simple CPM Laser: An Experimental Study.- Femtosecond Pulse Generation from Passively Mode Locked Continuous Wave Dye Lasers 550-700 nm.- Stabilisation of a CPM Dye Laser Synchronously Pumped by a Frequency Doubled ML YAG Laser.- Fluctuations and Chirp in Colliding-Pulse Mode-Locked Dye Lasers.- Experimental Observation of High Order Solitons in a Colliding Pulse Mode-Locked Laser.- Advances in the Theory of Mode-Locking by Synchronous Pumping.- Collective Modes - An Analytical Model for Active Mode Locking in the Transient Case.- Generation of Picosecond Pulses from a Continuous Wave Neodymium:Phosphate Glass Laser.- II Ultrafast Optical Generation and Measurement Techniques.- Fourier Transform Picosecond Pulse Shaping and Spectral Phase Measurement in a Grating Pulse-Compressor.- Picosecond Pulse Amplification Using Pulse Compression Techniques.- New Optical Design for a Jet Amplifier.- Fiber Raman Amplification Soliton Laser (FRASL).- Dispersion Compensated Fiber Raman Oscillator.- 80-fs Soliton-like Pulses from an Optical Nonlinear Fiber Resonator.- The Stabilized Soliton Laser.- The Soliton Self Frequency Shift.- Solitons at the Zero Dispersion Wavelength of Single-Mode Fibers.- Active Mode-Locking of an InGaAsP Optical-Fiber Ring Laser.- Femtosecond Resolved Fluorescence.- Parametric Amplification Sampling Spectroscopy (PASS): A New Technique for Resolving Near-Infrared Luminescence on a Subpicosecond Time Scale.- Measurement of Optical Phase with Subpicosecond Resolution by Time Domain Interferometry.- Real Time Picosecond Optical Oscilloscope.- Beam Overlap for Long Delay Lines Using Active Feedback.- Ultrashort Dye Laser Pulses Using the Sweeping Oscillator Method.- An Investigation on Ultrashort Light Pulse Generation by Travelling-Wave Amplified Spontaneous Emission.- III Electrooptic Sampling Techniques.- Electrooptic Sampling of Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuits.- Picosecond Characterization of Ultrafast Phenomena: New Devices and New Techniques.- Precise Measurement of Signal Propagation Characteristics in GaAs Integrated Circuits by Picosecond Electro-Optic Sampling.- Propagation of Ultrashort Electrical Pulses on Superconducting Transmission Lines.- High Repetition Rate Electro-Optic Sampling with an Injection Laser.- Picosecond Optoelectronic Sampling of Electrical Waveforms Produced by an Optically Excited Field Effect Transistor.- Picosecond Electrical Pulses in Microelectronics.- High Speed Circuit Measurements Using Photoemission Sampling.- Photoemissive Sampling of Picosecond Electrical Waveforms.- Nonlinear Responses of Picosecond Photodetectors to Photogenerated Carriers.- Direct Generation of Picosecond to Subpicosecond Optical Pulses Using Electrooptic Modulation Methods.- Elimination of Dynamic Flash in a Picosecond Streak Image Tube.- IV Nonlinear Optics and Continuum Generation.- Parametric Chirp Reversal and Enhancement: Application in Femtosecond Optics.- Supercontinuum Generation in Gases: A High Order Nonlinear Optics Phenomenon.- New Excitation and Probe Continuum Sources for Subpicosecond Absorption Spectroscopy.- Induced Phase Modulation and Spectral Broadening of a Weak 530-nm Picosecond Pulse by an Intense 1060-nm Picosecond Pulse in Glass.- The Observation of Chirped Stimulated Raman Scattered Light in Fibers.- Observation of 7.2-THz Beats Between the D-Lines of Atomic Rb.- Coherent Multiphoton Resonant Interaction and Harmonic Generation.- Ultrafast Chaos from Semiconductor Lasers.- V Applications to Semiconductors, Quantum Wells, and Solid State Physics.- Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Melting, Evaporation and Crystallization, Induced by Picosecond Pulsed Laser Irradiation.- Investigation of Nonthermal Population Distributions with 10-fs Optical Pulses.- Superheating During Ultrafast Laser Heating of Semiconductors.- Non-equilibrium Carriers in GaAs: Secondary Emission During the First Two Picoseconds.- Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in GaAs and AlxGa1?xAs.- Subpicosecond Optical Non-linearities in GaAs Multiple-Quantum-Well Structures.- Picosecond Relaxation of Nonthermal Wannier Excitons in GaAs.- Picosecond Observation of the Photorefractive Effect in GaAs.- Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Measurements in AlxGa1?xAs Under Intense Picosecond Excitation.- Picosecond Excite-Probe and Transient Grating Studies of GaxIn1?xAsyP1?y.- Ultrafast Dynamics in GaAlAs Diode Laser Amplifiers.- Electronic Energy Relaxation and Localization in Two II-VI Compound Semiconductor Quantum Well Structures.- Transient Raman Scattering in Multiple Quantum Well Structures.- Fast Energy Relaxation of Hot Electrons in Bulk GaAs and Multi-Quantum Wells.- Picosecond Photoluminescence and Energy-Loss Rates in GaAs Quantum Wells Under High-Density Excitation.- Broad Tuning of the Photoluminescence Energy and Lifetime by the Quantum-Confined Stark Effect.- Auger Heating of Silicon-oil-Sapphire by Femtosecond Optical Pulses.- The Origin of Picosecond Photoinduced Absorption Decays in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon.- Picosecond Decay of Photoinduced Absorption in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon.- Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Hot Carriers in Germanium.- Spin Dephasing Kinetics of Free Carriers in Alloy Semimagnetic Semiconductors Cd1?xMnxSe by One and Two Photon Excitation.- Detection of Higher Order Fourier Components of Index Gratings in Picosecond Transient Grating Experiments.- Transient Thermoreflectance Studies of Thermal Transport in Compositionally Modulated Metal Films.- Femtosecond Studies of Nonequilibrium Electronic Processes in Metals.- Time-Resolved Observation of Electron-Phonon Relaxation During Femtosecond Laser Heating of Copper.- Femtosecond Carrier Relaxation in Semiconductor-Doped Glasses.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Electron-Hole Plasma in Semiconductor Microcrystallite Doped Glass.- High-Contrast Ultrafast Phase Conjugation in Semiconductor-Doped Glass.- Femtosecond Vibrational Relaxation of the F2+ Center in LiF.- Determination of the Rapid Quenching Rates of Excited State F-Centers by OH? Defects in KCl.- Propagation of Coherent Phonon Polaritons in LiTaO3 Measured by FIR-Cherenkov-Pulses.- VI Chemical Reaction Dynamics.- Cages, Crossings and Correlations - Theoretical Perspectives on Solution Reaction Dynamics.- Polarity Dependent Barriers and the Photoisomerization Dynamics of Polar Molecules in Solution.- Dynamic Solvent Effects on Small Barrier Isomerizations.- Solvation Dynamics in Polar Liquids: Experiment and Simulation.- Femtosecond Study of Electron Localization and Solvation in Pure Water.- Time-Dependent Fluorescence Shift in Alcoholic Solvents: A Non-Debye Behaviour Related to Hydrogen Bonds.- Picosecond Dynamics of Proton-Anion Ion Pair Geminate Recombination.- Excited State Proton Transfer in Matrix Isolated Water and Methanol Complexes of 2-Hydroxy-4,5-benzotropone and 3-Hydroxyflavone.- Detection of the Inverted Region in Photo-induced Intramolecular Electron Transfer.- Ultrafast Studies Designed to Test the Fundamental Statistical Assumptions Underlying Chemical Reactivity in Liquids.- Geminate Recombination and Relaxation of Condensed Phase Molecular Halogens.- Fast Photochemical Processes of Aromatic Nitro Compounds in Solution.- Cage Recombination and Unimolecular ?-Scission Reactions of Sulfur Centered Free Radicals.- The Influence of Friction and Deuteration on Stilbene Isomerization.- Kramers-Hubbard Approach to the Solvent Dependence of Isomerization.- Photoisomerization Studies of Substituted Stilbenes: 4,4?-Dihydroxystilbene and 4,4?-Dimethoxystilbene.- Picosecond Studies of Barrierless Torsional Diffusion.- Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectra of Ethidium Bromide.- Picosecond and Femtosecond Molecular Beam Chemistry: Coherence and Fragment Recoil Dynamics.- Picosecond Laser Study of the Collisionless UV Photodissociation of Energetic Materials.- Experimental Study of Harmonic Generation with Picosecond 248 nm Radiation.- Time-Resolved Measurement of Laser-Induced Desorption of a Molecular Monolayer.- VII Dynamics of Biological Processes.- Picosecond Electron Transfer and Stimulated Emission in Reaction Centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Chlorofelxus aurantiacus.- Femtosecond Spectroscopy of the Primary Events of Bacterial Photosynthesis.- An Accumulated Photon Echo Study of Sub-picosecond Processes in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.- Ultrafast Electron and Energy Transfer in Reaction Center and Antenna Proteins from Photosynthetic Bacteria.- Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Excitation Energy Transfer and Initial Charge Separation in the Reaction Center of the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides.- Picosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Green Plant Photosystem I Reaction Centres.- Femtosecond-Pulse Spectroscopy of Primary Photoprocesses in Reaction Centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26.- Detergent Effects upon the Picosecond Dynamics of Higher Plant Light Harvesting Chlorophyll Complex (LHC).- Picosecond Conformational Intermediates in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle.- Electron Transfer and Rapid Restricted Motion in Homologous Azurins.- Primary Process of Vision: Hypsorhodopsin.- Reactivity and Dynamics of Hemeproteins in the Femtosecond and Picosecond Time Domains.- Picosecond Raman Hole Burning as a Probe of Conformational Heterogeneity: Applications to Oxyhemoglobin.- Ultrafast Studies of Nitrosylmyoglobin.- Molecular Dynamics Study of Vibrational Cooling in Optically Excited Hemeproteins.- Chemical Reaction in a Glassy Matrix: Dynamics of Ligand Binding to Protoheme in Glycerol:Water.- VIII Energy Transfer and Relaxation.- Energy and Electron Transfer of Adsorbed Dyes on Molecular Single Crystals and Other Substrates.- Optical Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Dyes on Surfaces: Ground-State Recovery of Rhodamine 640 on ZnO and Fused Silica.- Picosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy on Molecular Association in Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Fluorescence Concentration Depolarization of DODCI in Glycerol: A Photon-Counting Test of Three-Dimensional Excitation Transport Theory.- Fractal Behaviors in Two-Dimensional Excitation Energy Transfer on Vesicle Surfaces.- Transient Vibrational Heating of Molecules After Internal Conversion.- Nonlinear Absorption Spectroscopy of Liquids with Ultrashort IR Pulses.- Femtosecond Relaxation Dynamics of Large Organic Molecules.- Population Lifetimes of OH(v=1) and OD(v=1) Vibrations in Alcohols, Silanols and Crystalline Micas.- S0-Sn Two-Photon Absorption Dynamics of Rhodamine Dyes.- Nonlinear Optical Response of One-Dimensional Excitons in Polydiacetylene.- Picosecond Photoconductivity and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in trans-Polyacetylene.- Singlet Exciton Fusion in Molecular Solids.- Matrix Effect on Vibrational Relaxation in Molecular Crystals.- Optical Damage in Molecular Crystals: A Solid State Explosion.- Rotational Relaxation of Free and Solvated Rotors.- Ultrafast Dynamics at the Interface: Probing the Transition from Solution to Surface Interactions in Charged Micelles.- Shock Moderated Photophysics and Photochemistry at Multikilobar Pressures.- IX Coherent Spectroscopic Techniques.- Phase Grating Approach to Susceptibility Tensors: Determination in Isotropic Media.- Nonlinear Response Function for Four-Wave Mixing: Application to Coherent Raman Lineshapes in Polyatomics and to the Optical Anderson Transition.- Picosecond Laser Pulse Shaping and Phase Shifting for Molecular Spectroscopy.- Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Interactions in Thin Films of Organic Polymers Investigated by Picosecond and Subpicosecond Four-Wave Mixing.- Picosecond Raman-Induced Phase Conjugation Spectroscopy.- Polarization Dependence of Time-Resolved CARS in Liquids.- Direct Measurement of Wave-Vector-Dependent Polariton Energy Velocity and Dephasing in NH4Cl.- Impulsive Stimulated Rayleigh, Brillouin, and Raman Scattering: Experiments and Theory of Light Scattering Spectroscopy in the Time Domain.- Ultrafast Transient Spectroscopy with Broadband Non-Transform-Limited Light Sources.- Picosecond Dephasing Time Measurement by CSRS Using Temporally Incoherent Nanosecond Laser with Short Correlation Time.- Anomalous Pulse Duration Dependence of the Quasicontinuum Absorption Spectrum.- Index of Contributors.