Ultrafast Phenomena VIII

I Overview and General Prospects.- Additive Pulse Modelocking and Kerr-Lens Modelocking.- Molecular Control Spectrometer.- Internal Motions of Proteins.- Some Theoretical Aspects of Electron Transfer in Supermolecules.- Femtosecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Magneto-Excitons.- High-Order Harmonic Generation in Strong Laser Fields.- QED at 1020 W/cm2.- II Elementary Dynamics: Chemistry, Biology and Physics.- Femtochemistry.- Transient Dichroism Studies of I2 Predissociation in Solution.- Investigation of the Primary Event in Vision Using 10 fs Blue-Green Optical Pulses.- Mechanisms of Charge Separation in Bacterial Reaction Centers.- Coherent Phonons in Superconducting Materials.- Displacive Excitation of Coherent Phonons.- Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photodissociation of Triiodide Ions in Alcohol Solution: Directly Observed Photoinduced Vlbrational Coherence of Reactants and Products.- Vibrational Coherence in Charge Transfer.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Solution: Wavepacket Motion and the Cage Effect in Iodine.- Femtosecond Time-Resolved Ionization Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules.- A Study of Nuclear Vibrational Wave Packets in Na2 by Time- and Frequency-Resolved Fluorescence Upconversion.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Solid C60.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Molecular and Cluster Ionization and Fragmentation.- Dephasing and Beats of Excitonic-Enhanced Transitions of J-Aggregates Measured by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Resonance CARS.- Excited States Dynamics of the Special Pair Dimer.- Creation of an Anti-Wavepacket in a Rydberg Atom.- Squeezing of the Molecular Vibrations by Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- III Spectroscopy and Advances in Measurements.- Spectroscopic Applications of Phase-Locked Femtosecond Pulses.- Use of Piecewise Phase-Swept Pulses to Counteract Inhomogeneous Decay in Wave Packet Interferometry.- Ultrafast Nonlinear Spectroscopy with Chirped Optical Pulses.- Multiple Excitation Pulse, Multiple Probe Pulse Femtosecond Spectroscopy.- Stimulated Emission Pumping and Selective Excitation by Adiabatic Passage with Frequency-Modulated Picosecond Laser Pulses.- A Subpicosecond Optical Sampling System.- Femtosecond Sagnac Interferometry.- Femtosecond Time-Gated Imaging of Translucent Objects Hidden in Highly Scattering Media.- Femtosecond Waveform Processing via Spectral Holography.- The Chronocyclic Representation of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Femtosecond Pulse Phase Measurement by Spectrally Resolved Up-Conversion.- Single-Shot Measurement of the Intensity and Phase of a Femtosecond Pulse.- Two-Photon Interference Measurement of Ultrafast Laser Pulses.- Picosecond Single-Shot Pulse-Shape Measurement by Stochastic Sampling of Detected Photon Times.- Integrated Devices for Single Picosecond Pulse Measurements.- The C850X Ultrafast Streak Camera: An Instrument to Study Spatially and Temporally Subpicosecond Laser-Matter Interaction.- Distortion of a 6 fs Pulse in the Focus of a BK7 Lens.- IV Tools: Sources and Amplifiers.- Modelocking, Stabilizing, and Starting Ultrashort Pulse Lasers.- 17 fs Pulses from a Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire Laser.- Design Considerations for Femtosecond Ti:Sapphire Oscillators.- Self-Mode-Locked Cr3+:LiCaAlF6 and Cr3+:LiSrAlF6 Lasers.- Sub-50 fs Pulse Generation from a Self-Starting CW Passively Mode-Locked Cr:LiSrAlF6 Laser.- CW Krypton-Laser Pumped Cr3+:LiSrAlF6 and Cr3+:LiSro.8Ca0.2AlF6 Crystals Produce 150 fs Mode-Locked Pulses.- 60-fs Chromium-Doped Forsterite (Cr4+:Mg2SiO4) Laser.- Femtosecond Pulses from Nd:Glass Lasers.- A Diode-Pumped Picosecond Oscillator at 1053 nm.- A New Intracavity Antiresonant Semiconductor Fabry-Perot Passively Mode-Locks Nd:YLF and Nd:YAG Lasers.- CW Mode-Locked Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by a Ti:Sapphire Laser.- 70 fs, High-Average Power, CW Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillator.- Femtosecond Intracavity Dispersion Measurements.- Time Synchronization Measurements Between Two Self-Modelocked Ti:Sapphire Lasers.- Femtosecond Synchronous Pumping of Dye Lasers with 250 kHz with a Tr.Sapphire Regenerative Amplifier.- Millijoule Femtosecond Pulse Amplification in Ti:Al2O3 at Multi-kHz Repetition Rates.- High Repetition Rate CW Pumped Cr:LiSAF Regenerative Amplifier.- 18 fs Pulse Generation by a Single Excimer-Laser-Pumped Pulsed Dye Laser.- Monolithic CPM Diode Lasers.- Ultrashort Pulse Generation from High-Power Arrays Using Intracavity Nonlinearities.- 100-Gbps Response of Microcavity Lasers.- Sequential Laser Emission in Multiple Quantum Well Vertical-Cavity Structures.- Experimental Analysis of Gain Modulation in Sub-Picosecond (~0.45 ps) Mode-Locked Laser Diodes.- Generation of Stable Pulse Trains with a Passively Modelocked Er-Fiber Laser.- Generation of Pairs of Solitons in an All-Fibre, Femtosecond Soliton Source.- Nonlinear Loop Mirrors in Fiber Lasers.- Temporal Characteristics of the Ytterbium-Erbium Figure-8 Laser.- Generation of 1.7 ps Solitons by Amplification of Pulses from a Laser Diode with Saturable Absorber in an Erbium-Doped Fibre.- V High Intensity and Nonlinear Effects.- Generation of Ultra-Intense Pulses and Applications.- Generation of 50 TW Femtosecond Pulses in a Nd-Glass Chain.- All-Solid Femtosecond Oscillator-Amplifier Laser Chain with 100 mJ per Pulse.- Development of a High Intensity Femtosecond LiSAF Laser.- Contrasted Behaviors of Stark-Induced Resonances in Multiphoton Ionization of Krypton.- Phase-Dependent Ionization Using an Intense Two-Color Light Field.- Stabilization of Atoms in Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses: A Classical Model.- Inertially Confined Molecular Ions.- A Femtosecond Lightning Rod.- Plasma Physics with Ultra-Short and Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses.- X-Rays Generated by Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas.- K-Shell Emission from 100 fs Laser-Produced Plasmas Created from Porous Aluminum Targets.- Kilovolt X-Ray Emission from Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Plasmas Generated by Superintense Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Picosecond Soft-X-Ray Pulse Length Measurement by Pump-Probe Absorption Spectroscopy.- Photon Acceleration via Laser-Produced Ionization Fronts.- Propagation of Intense Laser Pulses in Plasmas.- Ponderomotive Steepening in Short-Scale-Length Laser-Plasmas.- Possibility of Experimental Studies of Nonlinear Quantum Electrodynamics Effects Using High Power Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Soliton-Like Self-Trapping of Three-Dimensional Patterns.- Physical Origins of the Spectral Continuum: Self-Focusing, Self-Trapping and Cerenkov Radiation.- Diffraction and Focussing of Spectral Energy in a Two-Photon Process.- Efficient Raman Conversion of Femtosecond UV Light Pulses.- Organic Crystalline Fiber for Efficient Compression of Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Nonlinear Temporal Diffraction in Optical Fibers.- Generation of a Soliton Pulse Train in an Optical Fibre Using Two CW Single-Frequency Diode Lasers.- Experimental Investigation of Dark Solitons Interaction.- Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Erbium-Doped Single-Mode Fibers.- Compression of Pulses from Soliton Fibre Lasers in a Dispersion-Decreasing Fibre.- VI Metals, Surfaces and Materials.- Observation of the Thermalization of Electrons in a Metal Excited by Femtosecond Optical Pulses.- Femtosecond Thermionic Emission: Experiment, Analytical Theory, and Particle Simulations.- Electron-Electron Dynamics Observed in Femtosecond Thermoreflection Measurements on Noble Metals.- Inversion of Single- and Two-Photon Photoelectric Sensitivities of Metals in the Femtosecond Range.- Femtosecond Relaxation of Plasma Excitations in Silver Films.- Femtosecond Free Induction Decay of Metal Surface Adsorbate Vibrations.- Observation of Laser-Induced Desorption of CO from Cu(111) with 100 fs Time-Resolution.- Femtosecond Desorption of Molecular Oxygen from Pt(111).- Femtosecond Carrier Dynamics in Solid C60 Films.- The Role of Covalency in Femtosecond Time-Resolved Reflectivity of Hydrodynamically Expanding Solid Surfaces.- Ultrafast Formation Processes of Self-Trapped Excitons in Alkali Iodide Crystals under Band-to-Band Excitation.- Femtosecond Self-Trapping of Interacting Electron-Hole Pairs in ?-SiO2.- Ultrafast Soft Mode Dynamics in Ferroelectric Crystals.- Temporal Domain Study of the Phase Transition in PbTiO3: A1 Symmetry Investigation.- Femtosecond Transient Absorption Measurements on Low Band Gap Thiophene Polymers.- Effects of Crosslinking in Host Polymer on Picosecond Optical Dephasing of Doped Dye Molecules.- Ultrafast Relaxation of Exciton and Soliton-Antisoliton Pair in One-Dimensional Conjugated Polymers.- Polarization-Dependent Femtosecond Dynamics of MBE-Grown Phthalocyanine Organic Thin Films.- Detection of a New Strongly-Coupled Vibration Mode During the Exciton Bleaching of Polydiacetylene.- Pressure-Induced Vibrational Relaxation and Electronic Dephasing in Molecular Crystals.- Ultrafast Reversible Phase Changes for Optical Recording.- Picosecond Transient Absorption and Fluorescence Emission Studies of C60 and C70 in Solution.- VII Semiconductors, Confinement and Opto-Electronics.- Transient Absorption-Edge Singularities in GaAs.- Nonthermal Distribution of Electrons in GaAs.- Femtosecond Carrier-Carrier Interaction in GaAs.- Quantum Beats versus Polarization Interference: An Experimental Distinction.- Plasmon-Phonon Coupling and Hot Carrier Relaxation in GaAs and Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs.- Femtosecond Carrier-Carrier Interaction Dynamics in Doped GaAs.- Femtosecond Carrier Kinetics in Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs.- Transient Anisotropic Luminescence and Long-Living Polarization of an Optically Excited Dense Electron-Hole Plasma.- Hot Hole Capture by Shallow Acceptors in p-Type GaAs Studied by Picosecond Infrared Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast Dephasing and Interference of Coherent Phonons in GaAs.- Femtosecond, Electronically-Induced Disordering of GaAs.- Laser-Induced Ultrafast Order-Disorder Transitions in Semiconductors.- Femtosecond Carrier Dynamics in InGaAsP Optical Amplifiers.- Ultrafast Nonlinear Refraction in Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers.- Femtosecond Luminescence Spectroscopy of Indium Phosphide.- Dynamics of Excitons Probed by Accumulated Photon Echo.- Time-Resolved Measurement of Hot Carrier Cooling Rates in a-Si:H and a-Ge:H.- Dephasing of the Short Exciton-Polariton Pulses in Polar Semiconductors: The Cuprous Chloride Case.- Femtosecond Electronic Dynamics of CdSe Nanocrystals.- Quantum Beats Spectroscopy of Exciton Spin Dynamics in GaAs Heterostructures.- Evidence of Slow Hole Spin Relaxation in n-Modulation Doped GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Well Structures.- Femtosecond Time-Resolved Four-Wave Mixing in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Exciton Radiative Lifetimes in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Optical Investigation of Bloch Oscillations in a Semiconductor Superlattice.- Coherent Pulse Breakup in Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Semiconductors.- Absorption Saturation of the Urbach's Tail in Multiple Quantum Wells.- Photon Echo Polarisation Rules in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Observation of Many-Body Effects in the Femtosecond Temporal Profile of Quasi-2D Exciton Free-Induction Decay.- Radiative Recombination of Free Excitons in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Field-Enhanced GaAs/AlGaAs Waveguide Saturable Absorbers.- Picosecond Excitonic Nonlinearities in the Presence of Disorder.- Fast Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- Terahertz Radiation from Coherent Electron Oscillations in a Double-Quantum-Well Structure.- Optical Generation of Terahertz Pulses from Polarized Excitons in Quantum Wells.- Generation of High-Power Single-Cycle Picosecond Radiation.- Transient Electron Transport in GaAs Quantum Wells: From the Ballistic to the Quasi-Equilibrium Regime.- A Novel Free-Standing Absolute-Voltage Probe with 2.3-Picosecond Resolution and 1-Microvolt Sensitivity.- Picosecond Pseudomorphic AlGaAs/InGaAs MODFET Large-Signal Switching Measured by Electro-Optic Sampling.- Ultrafast Decay of Photodiffractive Gratings in Hetero n-i-p-i's by Enhanced In-Plane Transport.- Picosecond High-Sensitivity InxGal-xAs Photodetectors.- An Ultrafast Polarization-Independent All-Optical Demultiplexer Utilizing Induced-Frequency Shift.- Electrical Soliton Devices as >100 GHz Signal Sources.- Determination of Photonic Band Gaps and Dispersion in Two-Dimensional Dielectric Arrays with Ultrafast Electromagnetic Transients.- VIII Biology: Primary Dynamics, Electron and Energy Transfer.- Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Protein Dynamics.- Ultrafast Near-IR Spectroscopy of Carbonmonoxymyoglobin: The Dynamics of Protein Relaxation.- Energetics and Dynamics of Global Protein Motion.- Investigation of the Reaction Coordinate for Ligand Rebinding in Photoexcited Hemeproteins Using Transient Raman Spectroscopy.- Resonance Raman Studies of Electronic and Vibrational Relaxation Dynamics in Heme Proteins.- Molecular Processes in the Primary Reaction of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.- Femtosecond Spontaneous Emission Studies of Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers.- Subpicosecond Emission Studies of Bacterial Reaction Centers.- Picosecond Fluorescence Kinetics of Purple Bacterial Reaction Centers.- Primary Radical Pair Formation in Photosystem-Two Reaction Centres.- Energy Transfer and Primary Charge Separation in Heliobacteria by Picosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy.- Excitation Energy Transfer in Mutants of Rb. sphaeroides: The Effects of Changes in the Core Antenna Size.- Femtosecond Excitation Transfer in Allophycocyanin.- Femtosecond Förster Energy Transfer over 20 A in Phycoerythrocyanin (PEC) Trimers.- Ultrafast Energy Transfer Within the Light-Harvesting Antenna of Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria.- Femtosecond Dynamics in Rhodopsin.- Subpicosecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Halorhodopsin and Comparison with Bacteriorhodopsin.- IX Chemistry: Electron and Energy Transfer, and Solvation Dynamics.- Femtosecond Intermolecular Electron Transfer: Dye in Weakly Polar Electron-Donating Solvent.- Ultrafast Studies and Simulations on Direct Photoinduced Electron Transfer in the Betaines.- Picosecond Infrared Study of Ultrafast Electron Transfer and Vibrational Energy Relaxation in [(NC)5RUIICNRuIII(NH3)5]1?.- Ultrafast Studies on Intervalence Charge Transfer.- Picosecond Infrared Study of Intramolecular Energy Transfer in [(phen)(CO)3ReI(NC)Ru(CN)(bpy)2]+.- Noise-Induced Intramolecular Electron Transfer Processes in Polar Media.- Femtosecond Proton Transfer in the Electronic Ground State of Vibrationally Hot Molecules.- Solvent Effects on the Fast Proton Transfer of 3-Hydroxyflavone.- Time-Resolved Charge Separation in Acceptor-Substituted Anthrylpolyenes.- Vibrationally Unrelaxed cis-Stilbene Photoproducts Examined Through Two-Color UV Pump-Probe Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy.- Vibrational Energy Redistribution and Relaxation in the Photoisomerization of cis-Stilbene.- Photoisomerization of cis-Stilbene in Compressed Solvents.- Ultrafast Torsional Dynamics in Adsorbates: An SSHG Study.- Barrierless Photochemical Isomerization.- Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics in Liquids.- Femtosecond Solvent Dynamics Studied by Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Transient Birefringence.- Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Effects in Solvation Dynamics.- Excited-State Processes of 7-Azaindole.- Excited-State Proton Transfer and Hydrogen-Bonding Dynamics in 7-Azaindole: Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Computer Simulation.- Transient Hole Burning Studies of Electronic State Solvation: Phonon and Structural Contributions.- Subpicosecond Study of the Dynamic Processes in Push-Pull Styrenes and the Role of Solvation.- Picosecond Studies of Charge Transfer States in "Push-Pull" Linear Diphenyl Polyenes: Experimental Evidence for TICT and Bicimer States.- Features of the Dual Fluorescence of 4-N,N-dialkylaminoalkylbenzoates in Alkanes.- Investigation of Fast Relaxation Processes in Non-Fluorescent Rhodamine Dyes.- Femtosecond Photodissociation of Aromatic Disulfides Followed by Solvent Relaxation.- Femtosecond Dynamics of C-O Bond Cleavage of a Spirooxazine Photochromic Reaction.- Dynamics of Molecular Rotation at the Air/Water Interface by Time- Resolved Second-Harmonic Generation.- Energy Relaxation and Redistribution in Large Molecules in Solution on Ultrafast Time Scales.- Photodissociation and Recombination Dynamics of I2? in Solution.- Probing the Microscopic Molecular Environment in Liquids with Femtosecond Fourier-Transform Raman Spectroscopy.- The Homogeneity of Liquid Phase Vibrational Line Broadening from Raman Echo Experiments.- Excited State Photoreactions of Chlorine Dioxide in Solution.- Bimolecular Reactions are Power-Full.- Dynamics and Mechanism of Cu-Porphyrin Triplet Quenching Through Liganding by Oxygen-Containing Solvents.- Fast Processes in Liquid Alkane Photolysis Above the Ionization Threshold.- Index of Contributors.