Laser Optics of Condensed Matter

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Opening Remarks....Pages 1-3
Spectroscopy with 6 Femtosecond Optical Pulses....Pages 5-9
Hot Electrons in Semiconductors and Metals....Pages 11-18
Laser Spectroscopy of Hot Photoluminescence in Semiconductors: Energy Spectrum and Relaxation Times....Pages 19-23
Static and Dynamic Cooling Rate of Photocreated Plasmas in Semiconductors....Pages 25-29
GaSe Nonlinear Susceptibility and Relaxation Process Rates....Pages 31-39
Picosecond Laser Studies of Collisional Effects on Rotational Processes in Liquids....Pages 41-52
Optical Manifestations of Energy and Phase Relaxation in Vibronic Systems....Pages 53-59
The Oscillations of 2D-Electron Density of States in a Transverse Magnetic Field....Pages 61-69
Excitonic Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductor Quantum Wells....Pages 71-78
Excitons in Quantum Wells and Short Period Superlattices....Pages 79-85
Recombination Processes in GaAs/AlGaAs Multi-Quantum Well Structures....Pages 87-93
Picosecond Raman and Luminescence Studies of Carrier Relaxation in Quantum Wells....Pages 95-101
Gain Saturation and Features in the Threshold Behavior of A III B V Heterostructure Lasers....Pages 103-111
Single-Frequency Diode Laser with a High Temperature Stability of the Emission Line....Pages 113-118
Raman Studies of Phonons in GaAs/AlGaAs Superlattices....Pages 119-126
Optical Interactions at Rough Surfaces....Pages 127-136
Nonlinear Distributed Coupling into Guided Waves....Pages 137-145
Bistability on a Surface in Nonlinear Diffraction....Pages 147-155
Picosecond Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Surface Structure Transformations....Pages 157-168
Raman Scattering of Light from Coherently Excited Surface Polaritons....Pages 169-172
Resonant Raman Scattering as a Spectroscopic Probe of the Valence Electron Excitations of Adsorbates on Metals....Pages 173-181
Laser-Stimulated Ionization and Desorption of Molecules in an Electric Field....Pages 183-191
Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Single Micron-Size Droplets....Pages 193-198
Optical Spectroscopy of Size Effects in Semiconductor Microcrystals....Pages 199-207
Cooperative Behavior of Configurational Dipole Defects in Plastic Deformed Semiconductor Crystals....Pages 209-215
The Spectrum of Light Propagation Times through a Disordered Medium and Mesoscopic Fluctuations....Pages 217-222
Photon Localization in Time and Space....Pages 223-227
Classical Diffusive Photon Transport in a Slab....Pages 229-235
Anderson Localization of Classical Photons in a Disordered Dielectric....Pages 237-243
Electron Single-Particle Light Scattering in InP Crystals and in Mixed Crystals Ga x In 1-x P....Pages 245-250
Dynamical Light Scattering at the Nonequilibrium Crystal-Melt Interface....Pages 251-254
Selective Laser Heating and Nonlinear Light Scattering in a Homogeneous Medium....Pages 255-261
Dynamic Central Modes and Photorefractive Effects at T I and T C in Barium Sodium Niobate....Pages 263-272
Are Phasons Observable in Optics?....Pages 273-278
Laser Spectroscopy of Fast KNO 3 Ferroelectric Switches....Pages 279-285
Inelastic Light Scattering by Magnons in Antiferromagnetic EuTe....Pages 287-292
Theory of Transient Optical Response and Pulse Propagation in Bounded Spatially Dispersive Media....Pages 293-301
Picosecond Dynamics of Excitonic Polaritons in the Bottleneck Region....Pages 303-314
Polariton Waves Near the Threshold for Stimulated Scattering....Pages 315-319
Quantum Fluctuations and Statistical Properties of Intense Polariton Waves....Pages 321-329
Transport and Quantum Statistics of Excitons in Cu 2 O....Pages 331-336
Study of Localized Excitons in Semiconductor Solid Solutions by Selective Excitation....Pages 337-345
Luminescence of Bound Excitons in the Quasi-Two-Dimensional TlGaS 2 Crystals....Pages 347-353
Optically Dense Active Media of Solid-State Lasers....Pages 355-363
Negative Absolute Electrical Conductivity of Optically Excited Ruby: Microscopic Nature of the Phenomenon....Pages 365-372
Theory and Observation of Electron-Hole Competition in the Photorefractive Effect....Pages 373-380
Coherent Optical Oscillation due to Vectorial Four-Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystals....Pages 381-389
Stimulated Photorefractive Scattering and Optical Phase Conjugation....Pages 391-398
Dephasing of Impurities in Organic Glasses between 0.04 and 1.5k via Spectral Hole Photoburning....Pages 399-410
Photoburning of Persistent Spectral Holes, and Space-Time Domain Holography of Ultrafast Events of Nano- and Picosecond Duration....Pages 411-419
Associative Space-and-Time Domain Holography of Picosecond Light Fields via Photochemical Hole Burning....Pages 421-426
Study of Hot Carrier Diffusion in Semiconductors by Transient Grating Techniques....Pages 427-433
Pulsed Holographic Diagnostics of an Electron-Hole Plasma in Semiconductors....Pages 435-442
GaAs Etalons and Waveguides: Bulk versus Multiple-Quantum-Well Material....Pages 443-448
Resonant Nonlinearities and Optical Bistability in Semiconductors....Pages 449-455
Monolithic Microresonator Arrays of Optical Switches....Pages 457-465
Optical Bistability in Vacuum-Deposited Semiconductor Fabry-Perot Interferometers....Pages 467-473
Optical Bistability Without Optical Feedback and Absorption-Related Nonlinearities....Pages 475-480
Optical Freedericksz Transitions and Associated Effects in Liquid Crystals....Pages 481-490
Light-Induced Self-Excitation of 3-D Orientational Gratings in Liquid Crystals....Pages 491-496
Rotatory Instability of the Spatial Structure of Light Fields in Nonlinear Media with Two-Dimensional Feedback....Pages 497-505
Intrinsic Optical Multistability and Instabilities in Liquid Crystals....Pages 507-517
Concluding Remarks....Pages 519-526
Back Matter....Pages 527-531
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