Picosecond Phenomena: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Picosecond Phenomena. Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA, May 24–26, 1978

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Dynamic Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules with Tunable Picosecond Pulses....Pages 2-7
A New Technique for Measurement of Raman Dephasing Dynamics and Recent Advances in cw Mode-Locked Dye Lasers....Pages 8-11
Picosecond Vibrational and Electronic Relaxation Processes in Molecules....Pages 12-18
The Excited State Absorption Kinetics of Quinoxaline in Room Temperature Solution....Pages 19-22
A Novel Technique for Monitoring Transient Optical Phenomena on a Picosecond Time Scale....Pages 23-26
Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Subpicosecond States in Liquids....Pages 27-33
Picosecond Laser Studies of Electron-Hole Interactions and Double Proton Transfer....Pages 34-39
Polydiacetylenes, a Promising Material for Nonlinear Optics with Picosecond Pulses....Pages 40-42
Short Pulse Absorption Spectroscopy of Nitromethane Photolysis....Pages 43-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Singlet Exciton Interactions in Crystalline Naphthalene....Pages 48-50
Intramolecular Lineshape Narrowing in the Overtone Spectrum of Benzene....Pages 51-54
Kinetics of the Sensitized Fluorescence of Anthracene-Doped Naphthalene Following Two-Photon Picosecond Excitation....Pages 55-58
Picosecond Gain Kinetics of 1,4-Bis (2-Methylstyril) Benzene....Pages 59-62
Evidence for Nearly Transfom-Limited Pulses from a Short Cavity Blue Dye Laser....Pages 63-66
Applications of the Mode Locked Near UV Output from a Krypton Ion Laser in Chemical Analysis....Pages 67-70
Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Rhodamine Dyes....Pages 71-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Anti-Stokes Emission as a VUV and Soft X-Ray Source....Pages 76-84
Picosecond Phase Shift Measurements at 358 MHz Using Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 85-88
High Power, Nearly Bandwidth Limited, Tunable Picosecond Pulses in the Visible and Infrared....Pages 89-95
Sub-Picosecond Optical Gating by Optical Wavefront Conjugation....Pages 96-98
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Parametric Study of Double Mode-Locking of the cw Dye Laser....Pages 99-102
Subpicosecond Spectroscopy....Pages 103-107
Synchronized Ultra-Short Pulse Generation and Streak-Camera Measurement with cw Mode-Locked Lasers....Pages 108-113
Picosecond Pulse Generation with a cw GaAIAs Laser Diode....Pages 114-116
Investigation of the Parameters Affecting Subpicosecond Pulse Durations in Passively Mode Locked Dye Lasers....Pages 117-120
Measurements of Polarization Relaxations in Materials Using Synchronously Mode-Locked Dye Lasers....Pages 121-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Picosecond Studies of Electron Transfer in Bacterial Photosynthesis and in Model Svstems....Pages 126-133
Primary Photosynthesis Selectively Excited by Tunable Picosecond Parametric Oscillator....Pages 134-139
Light Collection and Exciton Dynamics in Photosynthetic Membranes....Pages 140-148
Fluorescence and Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis....Pages 149-157
Picosecond Research of Some Biomolecules....Pages 158-166
The Use of Resonant Light Scattering as a Probe of Picosecond and Subpicosecond Relaxation and Dephasing Times in the Excited State....Pages 167-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Picosecond Optical Absorption at 1.06 μm and 1.55 μm in Thin Germanium Samples at High Optically-Created Carrier Densities....Pages 174-177
Advantages of the Planar Streak Camera in Picosecond Recording....Pages 178-181
Design for Ultrafast Electrical Switching....Pages 182-185
Small Area Metal-Oxide-Metal Junctions as Picosecond Photoemissive Detectors....Pages 186-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Picosecond (Coherent) Transients in Molecular Mixed Crystals....Pages 192-197
Nonlinear Optical Techniques for Probing Dephasing of Molecules and Excitons: Nano and Picosecond Dynamics....Pages 198-198
Optical Coherent Transients by Laser Frequency Switching: Subnanosecond Studies....Pages 199-204
Rise in Time of dc Electric-Field Induced Optical Rectification and Second Harmonic Generation in Liquids....Pages 205-207
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Picosecond Molecular Dynamics in Liquids and Electron Localization....Pages 208-217
Collisionless Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation in SF 6 ....Pages 218-223
Resonant Rayleigh-Type Mixing Spectroscopy Using a Picosecond Dye Laser System....Pages 224-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Picosecond Luminescence Spectroscopy of Highly Photo-Excited Semiconductors....Pages 230-231
Picosecond Absorption Spectroscopy of Direct Semiconductors....Pages 232-235
Fast Laser Excitations in VO 2 at the Semiconducting-Metallic Phase Transition....Pages 236-239
Energy Transport in Molecular Solids: Application of the Picosecond Transient Grating Technique....Pages 240-243
Ultrafast Processes in the Optical Response of the Electron-Hole Plasma in Germanium....Pages 244-251
Time-Resolved Induced Absorption Due to Exciton-Biexciton Transitions in CuC1....Pages 252-255
Broadly Tunable, Repetitive Picosecond Laser System and Its Application to Spectroscopy....Pages 256-259
Dynamic Emission Spectroscopy Under Resonant Two Photon Absorption in CuCl and CuBr....Pages 260-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Saturation Effects in Fifth Harmonic Generation of Coherent XUV Radiation....Pages 266-273
Picosecond Diagnosis of CO 2 Laser Produced Plasmas....Pages 274-280
The Regenerative Amplifer: A Source for Synchronized, Variable-Duration Pulses....Pages 281-284
Resonant Multiphoton Ionization of Cesium Atoms by Ultrashort Laser Pulses at 1.06μm....Pages 285-288
Intense Picosecond Electrostatic Fields in Laser Generated Plasma....Pages 289-292
Picosecond Interferometry of Laser Fusion Targets....Pages 293-301
Development of an Actively Modelocked and Q-Switched Oscillator for Laser Fusion Program at LLL....Pages 302-307
Generation and Amplification of Short 10 μ m Pulses....Pages 308-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Measurement of Singlet Lifetimes by Upper State Fluorescence Excitation....Pages 314-318
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Picosecond Studies of Excited State Proton Transfer Reactions: The Laser pH Jump....Pages 319-326
Measurement of Surface Recombination Velocity in Semiconductors by Diffraction from Picosecond Transient Free Carrier Gratings....Pages 327-329
On the Excited State Energy Surface of Rhodopsin and Bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 330-335
Picosecond Self-Induced Transparency and Photon Echoes in Sodium Vapor....Pages 336-338
Picosecond Spectroscopic Study on Excimer Formation in Solution and in Crystalline Phase....Pages 339-345
Characterization and Application of a Combined Picosecond Streak Camera, Silicon-Intensified-Target Vidicon, and Image Analyzer System....Pages 346-350
Back Matter....Pages 351-362