Ultrafast Phenomena VII: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, Monterey, CA, May 14–17, 1990

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Hybrid and Passive Mode Locking in Coupled-Cavity Lasers....Pages 2-7
Generation of Ultrashort Nd:YLF Pulses by cw Passive Mode Locking with a Nonlinear External Cavity....Pages 8-10
Ultrashort Pulse Generation with Additive Pulse Modelocking in Solid State Lasers: Ti:Al 2 O 3 , Diode Pumped Nd:YAG and Nd:YLF....Pages 11-13
Chirp in Actively Modelocked Diode Lasers....Pages 14-16
Femtosecond Color Center Lasers near 2.8 µ m with HgCdTe Multiple Quantum Well Saturable Absorber....Pages 17-19
820 nm Colliding-Pulse Modelocked Dye Laser....Pages 20-22
Clean Subpicosecond Pulses by Coupling Resonantly to a Linear High Loss Cavity....Pages 23-25
Multireflection Effects in Gain-Switched and Q-Switched Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 26-28
Dramatic Reduction of the Amplitude Noise of Colliding-Pulse-Modelocking Dye Lasers....Pages 29-31
Kilohertz Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses near 1.55 µ m, to Microjoule Energies....Pages 32-34
A Broadly Tunable cw Femtosecond Source for Ultrafast Spectroscopy....Pages 35-37
Passive Feedback for Stable Short Pulse Generation....Pages 38-40
A New Method of Ultrashort Pulse Generation: Modified Fabry-Perot Electrooptic Modulator....Pages 41-44
Subpicosecond Argon Pumped Fibre Raman Laser....Pages 45-47
Generation and Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses at 800 nm....Pages 48-50
Femtosecond Laser Cavity Dispersion Measurement Using Soliton Properties....Pages 51-53
Physical Properties of Coupled Cavity Lasers Used for Ultrashort Pulse Generation....Pages 54-56
Continuous Wave Diode Laser Seeding of Tunable Femtosecond Soliton Pulses....Pages 57-59
Gain Compression and Recovery Dynamics in Multiple Quantum Well Optical Amplifiers....Pages 60-62
Generation of Blue-Green 10 fs Pulses Using an Excimer-Pumped Dye Amplifier....Pages 63-65
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Pulse Compression of a Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire Laser....Pages 66-68
Coupled-Cavity Resonant Passive Modelocked (RPM) Ti:Sapphire Laser....Pages 69-71
Self-Starting Additive Pulse Mode-Locking of a Nd:Glass Laser....Pages 72-74
Soliton-like Pulse Shaping in a cw Passively Mode-Locked Ti:Al 2 O 3 Laser....Pages 75-77
Sub-picosecond 38 W Optical Pulses from a Hybrid Mode Locked Semiconductor Laser System....Pages 78-80
Femtosecond Generation of Mid Infrared Pulses at 8.5 kHz via Parametric Mixing in AgGaS 2 ....Pages 81-83
Femtosecond Pulses in the Medium Infrared by Down-Conversion of a Traveling Wave Dye Laser....Pages 84-86
Pulse Evolution in a Coupled-Cavity Mode-Locked KCl:Tl Color-Center Laser....Pages 87-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Ultrahigh Peak Power Generation: Present and Future....Pages 92-95
Very High Order Harmonic Generation....Pages 96-100
Time-Resolved Spectral Shifts of Femtosecond Pulses in Atmospheric Density Plasmas....Pages 101-103
Characterization of a High-Intensity, Subpicosecond XeCl Laser System....Pages 104-106
Soft-X-Ray Generation from 100 fs Irradiation of Thin Film Targets....Pages 107-109
Ultrafast Microscopy of Exploding Solids....Pages 110-112
Femtosecond Melting of Diamond....Pages 113-115
Femtosecond Photoemission and Reflectivity Measurements of High Temperature Electron Dynamics in Solid Density Plasmas....Pages 116-118
Second Harmonic Generation in Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas....Pages 119-121
Enhanced Absorption and ASE Pedestal Suppression in the Generation of Ultrashort-Pulse Solid-Density Plasmas....Pages 122-124
Proposed Source of Sub-picosecond Far Infrared Radiation....Pages 125-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Picosecond Stimulated Raman Measurement of Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities in a Conjugated Polymer....Pages 130-132
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Spontaneous Emission and Ultrafast Dephasing in Front of a Mirror....Pages 133-135
Polariton Effects in Transient Grating Experiments....Pages 136-138
Atomic Wave Packets and Optical Pulses....Pages 139-141
High Time Resolution and Coherence Effects with Incoherent Light in the Raman Fringe Decay....Pages 142-144
Fluorescence Detection of Femtosecond Accumulated Photon Echo....Pages 145-147
Analysis of Femtosecond Pulse Systems Using Ray-Pulse Matrices....Pages 148-150
Picosecond Universal Optical Fluctuation in Strongly Disordered Solids....Pages 151-153
Wavepacket Theory of Femtosecond Dynamic Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 154-156
The Anti-Resonant Ring in Ultrafast Excite—Probe Spectroscopy....Pages 157-159
Simultaneous Two-Photon Absorption and Second Harmonic Generation in CdSe....Pages 160-162
Anomalous Dispersion of the Electronic Kerr Effect n 2 ....Pages 163-165
Electronically Programmable Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Using a Multielement Phase Modulator....Pages 166-168
Pulsed Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy: Pathlength Specific Observation of Speckle Fluctuation Spectra from Dense Colloids....Pages 169-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Ultrafast All-Optical Fiber Soliton Logic Gates....Pages 174-178
Propagation and Amplification of Ultrashort Optical Soliton Pulses in Erbium-Doped Fibers for Very High Speed Communication....Pages 179-183
Observation of Two-Color Soliton Collisions in Optical Fiber....Pages 184-186
Modulational Instability for Normal Dispersion....Pages 187-189
Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in a Polarization-Maintaining Fiber....Pages 190-192
Observation of Induced Phase Modulation of Femtosecond Pulses in Glass and Organic Fibers....Pages 193-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Optically Induced Femtosecond Electromagnetic Radiation from Semiconductor Surfaces....Pages 198-202
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Femtosecond Excitonic Sampling in Submicron Thickness Coplanar Striplines....Pages 203-205
Picosecond Pulse Generation Circuits Using a GaAs Nonlinear Transmission Line....Pages 206-208
Microwave Properties of Anisotropic Materials Characterized with Picosecond Transient Radiation....Pages 209-211
Microwave Phase Locking Using an Electro-optic Harmonic Mixer....Pages 212-214
Broadband Microwave Reflection Experiments with Picosecond Transient Radiation....Pages 215-217
Ultrafast Coplanar Air-Transmission Lines....Pages 218-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Ultrafast Studies of Resonant and Non-resonant Electron and Hole Tunneling in Quantum Well Structures....Pages 222-226
Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Quasi-Zero-Dimensional Magneto-Excitons....Pages 227-229
On the Lineshape of Time-Resolved Four-Wave Mixing....Pages 230-232
Stimulated Photon Echoes and Free Polarization Decay in GaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structures: Evidence for Localized and Delocalized Excitons....Pages 233-235
Γ-X Intervalley Electron Transfer Rates in Type-II Al x Ga 1−x As/AlAs Superlattices....Pages 236-238
Two-Dimensional Carrier—Carrier Screening Studied with Femtosecond Photon Echoes....Pages 239-243
Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Highly Excited Cu 2 O....Pages 244-246
Dynamics of Excitons in Conjugated Polymers....Pages 247-249
Femtosecond Transient-Grating Experiments in Quantum Wells....Pages 250-252
Femtosecond Quantum Beats in Excitons of a Layered Semiconductor BiI 3 ....Pages 253-255
Picosecond Photoluminescence of AlGaAs/GaAs Quasi-Quantum Wires and Boxes....Pages 256-258
Absorption Saturation Dynamics in Capped CdSe Microcrystallites Exhibiting Quantum Confinement....Pages 259-261
Picosecond Imaging of Photoexcited-Carrier Transport in GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Wells....Pages 262-264
Fast Recovery of Excitonic Absorption Peaks in Tunneling Bi-Quantum-Well Structures....Pages 265-267
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Degenerate Four Wave Mixing in Staggered Type-II Al x Ga 1−x As/AlAs Multiple Quantum Well Structures....Pages 268-270
B-Exciton Bleaching in Bulk CdSe....Pages 271-273
Femtosecond Room Temperature Measurements of Transport over Nanometer Dimensions in Quantum-Confined Heterostructures....Pages 274-276
Femtosecond Nonlinear Optical Properties of GaAs/AlAs Type-II Superlattices....Pages 277-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Ultrafast Scattering Times in Amorphous Silicon....Pages 282-284
k-Space Carrier Dynamics in GaAs....Pages 285-287
Time-Resolved Picosecond Photon Echo Studies of Phase Relaxation in CdSSe Mixed Crystals....Pages 288-290
Direct Observation of the Electron and Hole Contributions in the Impulse Response of a Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Schottky Diode....Pages 291-293
Ultrafast Recombination in Ion-Damaged InP Studied by Femtosecond Luminescence....Pages 294-296
Subpicosecond Photoconductivity in III-V Compound Semiconductors Using Low Temperature MBE Growth Techniques....Pages 297-299
Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in GaAs Semiconductors Induced by Energetic Ions....Pages 300-302
Ultrafast Relaxation Processes of Hot Carriers in Graphite....Pages 303-305
Femtosecond Dynamics of Photo-Generated Carriers in Amorphous Hydrogenated Germanium....Pages 306-308
Ultrafast Pump—Probe X-Valley Absorption Spectroscopy in GaAs....Pages 309-311
Subpicosecond Nonlinearities of Semiconductor Near Infrared Bragg Reflectors....Pages 312-314
Femtosecond Thermomodulation of Single-Crystalline and Polycrystalline Gold Films....Pages 315-317
Vibrational Exciton Decay in Uranyl Crystals by Picosecond Coherent Raman Scattering: Energy Bottlenecks and High Order Relaxation Mechanisms....Pages 318-320
Second-Harmonic Efficiency and Reflectivity of GaAs During Femtosecond Melting....Pages 321-323
Picosecond Time-Resolved Measurements of Photorefractive Grating Dynamics in Zincblende Semiconductors....Pages 324-326
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Hot Phonon Spectra of Polar Semiconductors Studied via Picosecond Free Carrier Absorption Between 5 and 10 µ m....Pages 328-330
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Resonant Excitation of Coherent Optic Phonons by Femtosecond Multiple-Pulse Impulsive Stimulated Raman Scattering....Pages 331-333
Impulsive Phase Coherent Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Atomic and Molecular Transients with Phase-Locked Pulse Pairs....Pages 334-336
Direct Time-Resolved Observation of Coherent-Phonon Oscillations in III-V Compounds....Pages 337-339
Excitation of Low Frequency Polaritons in PbTiO 3 with Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 340-342
Time-Resolved Electron—Hole Plasma and Optical Phonon Interaction in GaP....Pages 343-345
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of High Temperature Superconductors with Terahertz Electrical Pulses....Pages 348-350
Femtosecond Absorption Studies of Nonequilibrium Electronic Processes in High-T c Superconductors....Pages 351-353
Femtosecond Thermomodulation Study of Conventional and High-T c Superconductors....Pages 354-356
Rate of Electron—Phonon Relaxation in Niobium....Pages 357-359
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
Surface Vibrational Energy Relaxation: c(2 × 2)-CO/Cu(100)....Pages 362-364
Femtosecond Laser-Induced Structural Changes in Gallium Arsenide....Pages 365-367
Ultrafast Relaxation of Electrons Probed by Surface Plasmons at a Thin Silver Film....Pages 368-370
Picosecond Transient Surface Temperature Measurement by Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction....Pages 371-373
Lifetime of an Adsorbate Substrate Vibration: H on Si(111)....Pages 374-376
Pump-Probe Investigation of Femtosecond Desorption....Pages 377-379
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Femtosecond Dynamics of Single Electron Transfer in Aqueous Media....Pages 382-386
Femtosecond Studies of Electrons in Water....Pages 387-389
Femtosecond Optical Spectroscopies of Solvated Polyatomic Molecules....Pages 390-392
Ultrafast Studies on Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Solvation....Pages 393-396
Dynamics of Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Polar Solvents....Pages 397-401
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Femtosecond Proton Transfer Reactions in Electronically Excited Aromatic Molecules....Pages 402-404
Solvent/Solute Interactions Probed by Transient Absorption and Transient Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 405-407
Solvation and Barrierless Electron Transfer: How Different Are the Dynamics?....Pages 408-410
Low Temperature Ultrafast Charge Separation: Rate Versus Free Energy....Pages 411-413
Solvent Dynamics by Transient Holeburning: Nonpolar Versus Polar Solutes....Pages 414-416
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
Femtosecond Dynamics from c.w. Spectroscopy....Pages 418-422
Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics of Liquid Carbon Disulfide Observed at High Pressure in a Diamond Anvil Cell....Pages 423-425
Femtosecond Transition-State Absorption Spectroscopy of Bi Atoms Produced by Bi 2 Photodissociation....Pages 426-428
Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of Complex Molecules Using CW IR Lasers....Pages 429-433
The Observation of Vibrational Relaxation and Solvent Reorientation Following Ultrafast Photodissociation of Cr(CO) 6 ....Pages 434-437
Ultrafast Rotational Dynamics of Electronically Excited Aniline Molecules in Solution....Pages 438-440
Dynamics of cis-Stilbene Isomerization in Solution....Pages 441-443
Isomerization of cis-Stilbene in Ar and Kr Clusters: Direct Measurements of trans-Stilbene Formation Rates on a Picosecond Time Scale....Pages 444-446
Rotational Dynamics in Simple and Nematogenic Liquids: Transient Grating Optical Kerr Effect Investigations....Pages 447-449
Rotational Diffusion of Phenoxazine Dyes: Characterization of Molecular Friction....Pages 450-452
Linear Electron—Phonon Interaction in Dye-Doped Polymers Studied by Femtosecond Accumulated Photon Echo....Pages 453-455
Time-Resolved Decay of Absorption Anisotropy due to Rotation of Free Molecules in the Gas Phase....Pages 456-458
Ultrafast Predissociation Dynamics of Isolated Small Molecules from UV Resonance Raman Depolarization Ratios....Pages 459-461
Vibrational Dynamics of Chloroform, Bromoform and Iodoform....Pages 462-464
Photoisomerization Dynamics of Methylstilbenes....Pages 465-467
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
Ultrafast Energy Trapping in Mercuric Iodide....Pages 468-470
Non-Markovian Dynamics of Azulene in Solution....Pages 471-473
Resonance Raman Scattering as a Probe of Ultrafast Electronic Surface Hopping and Nuclear Vibrational Motion....Pages 474-476
Nickel(II) Octaethylporphyrin: Conformational Dynamics, Ligand Binding and Release....Pages 477-479
Application of Ultrafast Broadband Infrared Spectroscopy to Measurement of Metal-Carbonyl Dynamics....Pages 480-482
Broadband Ultrafast Absorption Spectroscopy in the Hard Ultraviolet: Evolution of the CF 2 Radical upon Photodissociation of CF 2 Br 2 ....Pages 483-485
Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Photochemical Reactions in Solution....Pages 486-488
Subpicosecond Infrared Spectroscopy: The Condensed Phase Photochemistry of Iron Carbonyls....Pages 489-491
Excited State Dynamics of Jet-Cooled Substituted Indoles: The Role of Polar Interactions in 1 L a − 1 L b State Coupling....Pages 492-494
Femtosecond and Picosecond Laser Photolysis Studies of Photoreduction Processes of Excited Benzophenone and Its Derivatives in Solution....Pages 498-500
Femtosecond Laser Photolysis Studies on the Conformation Change of Benzil in Solutions....Pages 501-503
Fast Change in the Excited State Absorption Spectrum of TPM Dye Solutions....Pages 504-506
Temperature Dependent Superradiant Decay in Molecular Aggregates....Pages 507-509
Studies of Diffusion-Influenced Fluorescence Quenching....Pages 510-512
Zero-Phonon Line and Ultrafast Dephasing in Nile Blue Doped Polymer Film....Pages 513-515
The Impact Approximation in Transition-State Absorption Spectroscopy: On the Possibility of Obtaining Difference Potentials Directly from the Transient Spectra....Pages 516-518
Molecular Alignment in the Photoisomerization of Stilbene....Pages 495-497
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Primary Charge Separation in the Photosynthesis of Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 520-523
Primary Charge Separation Process in Reaction Centers from Chloroflexus aurantiacus Bacterium....Pages 524-528
Picosecond Transient Phase Grating Studies of the Energetics and Structure Dynamics of Heme Proteins....Pages 529-531
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Polarized Pump—Probe Spectroscopy of the Q y Band of BChl a-Protein from Prosthecochloris aestuarii : Evidence for Ultrafast Exciton Localization....Pages 532-534
Picosecond Transient Absorption and Dichroism Studies on Excitation Transfer in Allophycocyanin....Pages 535-537
Vibrational Temperatures of Photoexcited Deoxy-Hemoglobin....Pages 538-540
Sub-picosecond Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Some Biological Systems....Pages 541-543
Picosecond Polarization Studies of Protein Relaxation....Pages 544-547
Subpicosecond Fluorescence Anisotropy Measurements of Tryptophanyl Residues in Proteins....Pages 548-550
Back Matter....Pages 551-554