Laser Optics of Condensed Matter: Volume 2 The Physics of Optical Phenomena and Their Use as Probes of Matter

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Picosecond Resolved Optically Driven Phonon Dynamics....Pages 1-8
Relaxation and Propagation of High Frequency Phonons in Thin Crystalline Plates After Intense Laser Pumping....Pages 9-17
Evolution in Real Time and Space of Short Polariton Pulses in Crystals....Pages 19-26
Quasielastic Electronic Light Scattering in Semiconductors at Low Concentrations of Current Carriers....Pages 27-33
Condensed Matter Science With Far Infra Red Free Electron Lasers....Pages 35-35
Nonequilibrium Terahertz Range Acoustic Phonons and Luminescence of Excitons in Semiconductors....Pages 37-46
Nonlinear Optical Studies of Molecular Adsorbates....Pages 47-52
Enhancement of Exciton Transition Probabilities in Ultrathin Films of Cadmium Telluride....Pages 53-57
Studies of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces by Three-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy....Pages 59-59
Time-Resolved Resonant Reflection of Light....Pages 61-69
Femtosecond Photoemission Studies of Image Potential and Electron Dynamics in Metals....Pages 71-82
High-Intensity, Ultrashort Pulse Laser Heated Solids....Pages 83-86
Control of Transversal Interactions in Nonlinear Optics: New Spatio-Temporal Effects in Nonlinear Wave Dynamics....Pages 87-87
Synchronization of Atomic Quantum Transitions by Light Pulses....Pages 89-97
Chaos in Nonlinear Optics....Pages 99-105
Self-Organization and Spatio-Temporal Chaos in Phase-Locked Semiconductor Laser Arrays....Pages 107-107
Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics in Optical Neural Networks....Pages 109-109
Transitions Between Ordered and Disordered Solid-Melt Patterns Formed on Silicon by Continuous Laser Beams: Competition Between Electrodynamics and Thermodynamics....Pages 111-120
Light Scattering in Oxide Superconductors....Pages 121-130
Raman Scattering in High-T c Superconductors YBa 2 Cu 3 O x with Different Oxygen Contents....Pages 131-136
Raman Scattering from High Temperature Superconductors....Pages 137-144
Decay of Exciton Gratings in Anthracene: Anisotropy of Lowest Exciton Bands and Coexistence of Longpath and Shortpath Waveguide Modes....Pages 145-156
Excitation Transport in Polymeric Solids....Pages 157-163
Vibron Lifetimes in Molecular Crystals....Pages 165-179
Anomalies of the Elastic Light Scattering at Phase Transitions in Crystals with Point Defects....Pages 181-185
Dynamical Fluctuations in a Dipolar Glass....Pages 187-194
Localization of Light in Random Media....Pages 195-195
Quantum Optic and Transient Effects of Excitonic Polaritons, and Properties of Phonoritons....Pages 197-203
Nonclassical Field Correlations in Quantum Optics....Pages 205-205
Phase-Conjugated Wave Enhanced by Weak Localizations of Exciton-Polaritons....Pages 207-216
The Historical Relationship Between Nonlinear Optics and Condensed Matter....Pages 217-217
Optical Nonlinearities Enhanced by Carrier Transport....Pages 219-227
Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Optoelectronics....Pages 229-229
Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities of Subsurface Layers of Metals and Super- and Semiconductors Related to Electronic Structure and Crystal Symmetry....Pages 231-241
Second-Harmonic Generation in Optical Fibers....Pages 243-250
Nonlinear Optical Probes of Glassy Polymers....Pages 251-258
Photoluminescence of Hot Electrons and Scattering Processes in Quantum-Well Structures....Pages 259-263
High Resolution Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy Measurements of Exciton Dynamics in GaAs Quantum Well Structures....Pages 265-272
Optical Spectroscopy in the Regime of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect....Pages 273-281
Geminate Recombination in MQW Structures in a Magnetic Field....Pages 283-287
Investigation of Two-Electron-Hole Pair Resonances in Semiconductor Quantum Dots....Pages 289-295
Many Body Effects in Homogeneous Quasi 2D Electron-Hole Plasma in Undoped and Modulation Doped INGaAs Single Quantum Wells....Pages 297-306
Pulsed Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy in Dense Colloids....Pages 307-314
Waves on Corrugated Surfaces: K-Gaps and Enhanced Backscattering....Pages 315-324
Black Hole Radiation: Can Virtual Photoconductivity Produce a Similar Effect in Semiconductors?....Pages 325-338
Coupling Between Charge Transfer and Intramolecular Vibrational Modes in (TMTSF) 2 X, X = PF 6 or ReO 4 ....Pages 339-346
A Theory of Diffraction of Waveguide Polaritons....Pages 347-347
Fast Photorefractive Effect in High-Doped Semiconductors: Applications to Optical Bistable Interferometric Devices....Pages 349-360
Ballistic Signals from a Hot Phonon Spot....Pages 361-367
Optical Stark Effect of Excitons in Semiconductors....Pages 369-376
Four-Wave Mixing of Short Pulses: Subpicosecond Vibrational Dynamics of Electronic Excitations....Pages 377-385
Femtosecond Real and Virtual Excitations is GaAs Quantum Wells: Physics and Applications....Pages 387-391
Quantum Theory of Laser Field Effects on Impurity Ion Relaxation in Crystals: Applications to Transient Spectroscopy....Pages 393-400
Mode Locked Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 401-410
Femtosecond Pulse Shaping and the Fundamental Dark Soliton....Pages 411-411
Back Matter....Pages 413-447