Ultrafast Phenomena X: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, Del Coronado, CA, May 28 – June 1, 1996

Front Matter....Pages I-XXV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Advances in All-Solid-State Ultrafast Lasers....Pages 3-5
Physics and Scaling of Saturable Bragg Reflector-Modelocked Diode-Pumped Solid State Ultrafast Lasers....Pages 6-7
Ultrabroad-Band Ring Oscillator for Short Pulse Generation....Pages 8-9
Frequency-Dependent Mode-Size in Kerr-Lens Modelocked Lasers....Pages 10-11
Toward Coherent Control on a Sub-10fs Time Scale....Pages 12-13
Generation Dynamics of Solid-State Lasers Mode Locked by Antiresonant Loop....Pages 14-15
Ultraviolet Picosecond Pulses from an All-Solid-State Ce:Flouride Master Oscillator and Power Amplifier System....Pages 16-17
High-Power and Frequency-Doubled Stretched-Pulse Fiber Laser....Pages 18-19
An Electronically Wavelength Tunable Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Using an All-Fiber Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter....Pages 20-21
Femtosecond Chirped-Pulse Multifrequency Sources....Pages 22-23
“Pulse Shaping” of Incoherent Light by Use of a Liquid Crystal Modulator Array....Pages 24-25
High-Resolution Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping for Quantum Control and Terabit per Second Communications....Pages 26-27
10- to 80-Gb/s, Highly Extinctive Electrooptic Pulse Pattern Generation....Pages 28-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Ultrafast Visible Optical Parametric Oscillators: A Route to Tunable Sub-10-Femtosecond Pulses?....Pages 33-35
Tunable 50 fs Pulses in the Visible by Up-Conversion of Parametrically Generated Pulses in the Near Infrared....Pages 36-37
A Potassium Niobate OPA Pumped by an Amplified Ti:Sapphire Laser....Pages 38-39
Midinfrared Femtosecond Pulse Generation Using a 250 kHz Ti:Sapphire Pumped BBO OPA and DFG in AgGaS 2 ....Pages 40-41
Generation and Applications of Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses Obtained by Optical Rectification of 15-fs Near-Infrared Pulses....Pages 42-43
Fiber Laser Pumped Femtosecond Optical Parametric Generator....Pages 44-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Previously Impossible Measurements Made Possible by THz-Time-Domain Spectroscopy....Pages 49-51
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Noncontact Semiconductor Wafer Characerization with T-Rays....Pages 52-53
Electro-Optic Imaging of THz Beams....Pages 54-55
High Resolution Sub-Millimeter Spectroscopy Using Mode-Locked Laser Driven Electro-Optic Antennas....Pages 56-57
Pulsed Terahertz Spectroscopy of Solutions: Experiment and Memory Function Analysis....Pages 58-59
Free-Space Electro-Optic Samplers....Pages 60-61
Tunable Photoconducting Emitters and Detectors of Free Space Terahertz Radiation....Pages 62-63
Superradiant Terahertz Emission from Bloch Oscillations....Pages 64-65
Transient Grating with Asymmetric Arms for Electro-Optic Generation of THz Radiation....Pages 66-68
Terahertz Waveform Synthesis and Enhanced Narrow-Band Terahertz Generation Using Femtosecond Pulse Shaping....Pages 69-70
Diffracting Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy Using Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 71-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Generation of 25 TW, 32 fs Pulses at 10 Hz....Pages 75-76
Sub-20-fs Multiterawatt Laser and Ultrafast X-Ray Source....Pages 77-78
16 fs Pulse Generation and Measurement in the Ultraviolet and Vacuum Ultraviolet....Pages 79-80
High Energy 10 fs Pulses by a New Pulse Compression Technique Using Hollow Quartz Waveguides....Pages 81-82
On the Pulse Quality Limitations in Ultrashort Chirped Pulse Amplification....Pages 83-84
Chirped-Pulse Amplifiaction with a Fiber Stretcher and a Grism Compressor....Pages 85-86
Regenerative Pulse Shaping: A New Technique for Ultrabroadband Amplification....Pages 87-89
Compensation of SPM-Induced Pulse Distortions in Chirped-Pulse Amplification Systems....Pages 90-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Laser Electron Interactions at Critical Field Strength....Pages 95-97
Nonlinear Optics in the Relativistic Regime....Pages 98-99
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Excitation of Surface Electromagnetic Waves in High-Temperature Near-Surface Plasmas; Resonance Second Harmonic Generation....Pages 100-102
Selfchannelling of Intense Femtosecond Optical Pulses Through Air in the Transient Regime....Pages 103-104
Enhanced Ionization of Molecular Ions in Intense Laser Fields: Experiments on the Iodine Melecule....Pages 105-106
Direct Observation of Coherent Two-Photon Medium Response Induced by Femtosecond Deep UV-Laser Pulses in Krytpon....Pages 107-108
Picosecond Time-Resolved Pump-Probe XUV Absorption L-Edge Spectroscopy....Pages 109-110
Measurement of High Harmonic Pulse Durations Via Laser Assisted X-Ray Photoionization....Pages 111-112
Energy Penetration of Ultrahigh Intensity Short Laser Pulses into Overdense Plasmas Through Solitons....Pages 113-114
Observation of Relativistic Self-Focusing, Self-Channeling and Filamentation of Multiterawatt Ultra-Short Laser Pulses in Optical-Field Ionized Argon Gas Jets....Pages 115-116
Harmonic Generation from a Sharp Plasma-Vacuum Boundary....Pages 117-119
Enhanced High-Harmonic Generation with Ultrashort 25 fs Pulses....Pages 120-121
Femtosecond X-Rays Generated via 90° Thomson Scattering....Pages 122-123
Double-Pulse Pumped Efficient X-Ray Laser Utilizing Transient Gain....Pages 124-125
Generation of Short-Pulse XUV Radiation by Phase-Matched High-Order Difference-Frequency Mixing in Plasmas....Pages 126-127
Measurement of Laser Wakefield Oscillations by Femtosecond Longitudinal Interferometry....Pages 128-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Multiphoton Molecular Excitation to Illuminate Non-linear Laser Microscopy....Pages 133-134
Two-Photon Excitation Scanning Microscopy with a Compact SBR-Modelocked Diode-Pumped Cr:LiSAF Laser....Pages 135-136
Two-Photon Excited Flourescence Microscopy with Time and Wavelength Resolved Detection....Pages 137-138
Femtosecond Optical Spectroscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy....Pages 139-140
Ultrafast Equal Pulse Correlation Measurements in GaAs Structures with a Near-Field Microscope....Pages 141-142
Optical Coherence Tomographic Imaging Using a Mode Locked Cr 4+ :Forsterite Laser Source....Pages 143-144
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Modelling of the Propagation of Light in Turbid Media from Femtosecond Pulse Transmission Measurements....Pages 145-146
Temporal Polarization Gating of Light Propagating in Highly Scattering Medium....Pages 147-148
Atomic Streak Camera Probing of Wave Packet Decay Plus a FIR Streak Camera Concept....Pages 149-151
Demonstration of a Sub-Picosecond X-Ray Streak Camera....Pages 152-153
Time-Space Conversion Using Chirped Pulses for Three-Dimensional Shape Measurements....Pages 154-156
3-D Optical Storage and Engraving Inside Transparent Materials....Pages 157-158
Multi-Dimensional Femtosecond Pulse Shaping....Pages 159-160
Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating Using Surface Third-Harmonic Generation....Pages 161-162
Complete Temporal Characterization of the Polarization State of Weak Ultrashort Signals....Pages 163-164
Recent Developments in Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: Measurement of Ultraweak Ultrashort Pulses....Pages 165-166
13 fs Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating Measurements with Thin Poled Nonlinear Polymers....Pages 167-168
Spectrally-Resolved, DC-Balanced Homodyne Detection for Ultrafast, Multimode, Quantum Field State Measurement....Pages 169-170
Measuring Femtosecond Pulses with Linear Optics and Nonlinear Electronics....Pages 171-172
Probing Ultrashort Electrical Pulses by Optical Second Harmonic Generation....Pages 173-174
All-Optical Recognition of Terabit-per-Second Bit Patterns....Pages 175-176
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Phase Spectroscopy Using a Novel Sagnac Interferometer....Pages 177-178
Dynamical Studies of Non-linear Refractive Index by Cross Phase Modulation....Pages 179-180
Broadband Fiber Dispersion Compensation for Sub-100-Femtosecond Pulses with Compression Ratio of 300....Pages 181-182
Parametric Trapping and Self-Ordering of Solitons....Pages 183-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Wavepacket Dynamics via Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photoelectron and Photoionization Spectroscopy....Pages 187-189
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Mapping of Vibrational Wave Packet Motion and Coherent Control of Molecular Ionization by a Chirped fs Laser Pulse....Pages 190-191
Vibrational Wave Packet Propagation Dynamics in the Dissociative K 3 Molecule....Pages 192-193
Preparation and Interrogation of Vibronic Coherences in Condensed Media: I 2 Isolated in Condensed Rare Gases....Pages 194-196
Temperature Dependent Electronic Dephasing of Molecules in Polymers Measured by Femtosecond Three Pulse Photon Echoes....Pages 197-198
Photon Echo Measurements in Liquids Using Pulses Longer Than the Electronic Dephasing Time....Pages 199-200
Wavepacket Motion Observed in an Ultrafast Electron Transfer System....Pages 201-202
Selective Excitation of Wavepacket Motion in the Condensed Phase Using Chirped Pulses....Pages 203-204
Wavepacket Dynamics in Polydiacetylene Thin Films....Pages 205-206
Role of Symmetry Breaking in Transfer of Vibrational Coherence from Reactant to Product....Pages 207-208
Enhancement of Degenerate Four Wave Mixing from a Conjugated Polymer by Femtosecond Optical Pumping....Pages 209-210
Femtosecond 3 Pulse Stimulated Photon Echo Peak Shift Measurements of Organic Polymer Glass from Room Temperature to 30 K....Pages 211-212
Femtosecond Nonlinear Investigations of Molecular Motion in Liquids....Pages 213-214
Coherent Control in Ultrafast Photon Echo Spectroscopy: Liouville-Space Pathways Interference....Pages 215-216
On the Strong-Field Quantum Control Problem in Matter....Pages 217-218
Quantum Control from the Gas to Condensed Phase....Pages 219-220
Optimal Sequences for Chirped-Pulse-Stimulated Vibrational Motion....Pages 221-222
Vibrational Mode Suppression in the Non-Markovian Limit: Diagonal Time-Gating of the Stimulated Photon Echo....Pages 223-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Ultrafast Dynamics in Intermolecular Electron Transfer....Pages 227-229
Factoring the Contribution of Through-Space and Through-Bond Interactions to Rates of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Donor-Spacer-Acceptor Molecules Using Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 230-232
Femtosecond Electron Transfer and Real Time Investigation of a Disulfide Bond Formation....Pages 233-234
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Electron Tranfer in the Hexamethylbenzene/Tetracyanoethylene Charge-Transfer Complex in the Supercritical Fluids....Pages 235-236
Femtosecond IR Studies of Alkane C-H Bond Activation by Organometallic Compounds....Pages 237-238
Ultrafast Reactions Involving Small Molecules in Solutions....Pages 239-240
Photophysics and Photochemistry of the Solvated Electron in Higher Alcohols and Excited State Inertial Dynamics of the Hydrated Electron....Pages 241-242
Ultrafast Infrared Study of the UV Photodissociation of Mn 2 (CO) 10 ....Pages 243-244
Ultrafast Vibrational Relaxation and Ligand Photodissociation/Photoassociation Processes of Nickel(II) Porphyrins in Condensed Phase....Pages 245-246
Formation of Diphenylacetylene Following the Photodissociation of Diphenylcyclopropenone in Solution....Pages 247-248
Transient Product Vibrational Population Distribution in the Femtosecond Photodissociation of Triiodide....Pages 249-250
Solvent Effects on the Ultrafast Dynamics of Chlorine Dioxide Photochemistry....Pages 251-252
The Reflection of Predissociation Dynamics in Pump/Probe Photoelectron Distributions....Pages 253-254
Femtosecond VIS and IR Spectroscopy of the Photoisomerisation of the Protonated Schiff Base of Retinal....Pages 255-257
Comparison of the Photochemical Ring Opening of Cyclohexadiene and Dehydrocholesterol in Solution, Studied by Ultrafast Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 258-259
The Photochemical Dynamics of Trans-1,3,5-Hexatriene in Solution Investigated by the Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 260-261
First Example of Ultrafast Photoisomerisation-Like Photophysics for Tetrapyrrol Systems: Ethylene-Bridged Porphyrin Dimers....Pages 262-263
Femtosecond Studies of Isomerization and Energy Relaxation in Small Polyenes....Pages 264-265
Ultrafast Photophysics and Stimulated Emission from Novel Conjugated Polymers and Blends....Pages 266-267
Molecular ATI and ATD with Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 268-269
Primary Ultrafast Events in the Proton Transfer Reaction from Excited Pyranine to Water....Pages 270-271
Chemical Reaction Observed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption....Pages 272-273
Front Matter....Pages 274-276
Phase-Locked Femtosecond Photon Echo: A New Dimension in Ultrafast Spectroscopy....Pages 277-277
Coherent and Incoherent Dynamics of Large Molecules in Solution Studied on a 20 Femtosecond Time Scale....Pages 279-281
Femtosecond Studies of Exciton Dynamics in a Novel Optically Active Conjugated Polymer....Pages 282-283
“Bubble” Dynamics Following Rydberg State Excitation in Rare Gas Matrices....Pages 284-285
Electronic and Vibrational Dephasing in Solution by Dynamic Symmetry Breaking....Pages 286-287
Comparison of Spontaneous and Impulsive Stimulated Resonance Raman Excitation Profiles....Pages 288-289
New Advances in Measuring Hydrogen Bonding Dynamics....Pages 290-291
Vibrational Phase and Energy Relaxation of the Cyanide Ion in Water....Pages 292-293
Temperature-Dependence of the Ultrafast Intermolecular Dynamics of Amides: Formamide, N-Methylformamide, N,N-Dimethylformamide, N-Methylacetamide, and N-Methylpropionamide from 290–370 K....Pages 294-295
Temporally One- and Two-Dimensional Spectroscopies on Overtone Vibrational Dephasing of Liquids....Pages 296-297
Femtosecond IR Studies of Solvation by Probing the Solvent....Pages 298-299
Time-Domain Observation of Nuclear Vibrational Motion in Glasses....Pages 300-301
Temperature-Dependent Dynamics of CS 2 : An OHD-RIKES Study....Pages 302-303
Femtosecond Analysis of the Spinning Motion of Liquid Crystal Molecules in Smectic A Phases....Pages 304-305
Front Matter....Pages 306-307
Excitation Transfer and Trapping in Photosynthesis....Pages 309-309
Elementary Excitation in Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria: How Big Is It?....Pages 311-313
Polarized Pump Probe Spectroscopy on the LH-1 Antenna of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at Room Temperature....Pages 314-315
Excited State Dynamics and Exciton Delocalization in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes at Low Temperature....Pages 316-317
Femtosecond Dynamics Within the B820 Dimeric Subunit from the Core Antenna Complex of Rs. rubrum ....Pages 318-319
Level-to Level Electronic Energy Transfers in a Bacteriochlorophyll α — Protein Antenna Complex....Pages 320-321
Front Matter....Pages 322-323
Inertial Protein-Matrix Solvation of a Light-Harvesting Chromophore....Pages 309-309
Femtosecond Infrared Studies of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: New Charge Transfer Bands and Ultrafast Energy Redistribution....Pages 324-325
The Primary Electron Transfer in Bacterial Reaction Centers with Altered Energetics of the Primary Acceptor....Pages 326-327
Adiabetic Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers — Fiction or Reality?....Pages 328-329
Intermediates in Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers of Purple Bacteria....Pages 330-331
Optical Coherence and Anisotropy Studies of the First Events in Photosynthesis....Pages 332-333
Energy Tranfer in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center....Pages 334-335
Primary Processes in Heliobacteria Studied by Selective Excitation of Pigments....Pages 336-337
Primary Charge Separation in Photosystem II....Pages 338-339
Observation of an Intermediate Step During Primary Charge Separation by Photosystem Two....Pages 340-341
Quantum Beats in the Reaction Center of Photosystem II....Pages 342-343
Front Matter....Pages 344-345
The Primary Processes in Heme Protein Relaxation: The Coupled Reaction Coordinate Problem in Molecular Cooperativity....Pages 347-347
New Features in the Ultrafast Ligand Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in Myoglobin....Pages 349-350
Ultrafast Photoisomerization of Retinal in Bacteriorhodopsin: A New Twist....Pages 351-352
A Comparative Study of the Initial Photoinduced Event in Bacteriorhodopsin: Can It Be Isomerization?....Pages 353-354
A Femtosecond Absorption Study of Urocanic Acid....Pages 355-356
Time Resolved Electron Transfer Studies Between Metallointercalators in DNA....Pages 357-358
Charge-Transfer Dynamics in Blue Copper Proteins: Experiment and Simulation....Pages 359-360
Front Matter....Pages 361-362
Femtosecond Coherent Spin Control in Quantum Wells....Pages 363-363
Coherent Excitation of Megnetoexciton Wavepackets....Pages 365-367
Front Matter....Pages 368-369
Ultrafast Coherent Spin Torques In Magnetic Quantum Wells....Pages 363-363
Spin Quantum Beats in Bulk and Low Dimensional Semiconductors....Pages 370-371
Magnetic Field Dependence of Exciton Spin Dynamics in GaAs Quantum Wells....Pages 372-373
Spin Repolarization in Interacting Exciton Gas....Pages 374-375
Photocarrier Relaxation in the Quantum Kinetics Regime....Pages 376-377
Ultrafast Ellipsometry of Coherent Processes and Exciton-Exciton Interactions in Semiconductors....Pages 378-379
Coupled Bloch-Phonon Oscillations in Superlattices....Pages 380-381
Heavy-Light Hole Quantum Beats in the Band-to-Band Continuum of Bulk GaAs Studied in 20 fs Pump-Probe Experiments....Pages 382-384
Enhanced Radiative Decay and Optical Dephasing of Excitons in GaAs Quantum Well Bragg Structures....Pages 385-386
Coherent THz Plasmons in GaAs Schottky Diodes....Pages 387-388
Observation of Coherent Local Surface Phonons on Clean GaAs Surfaces....Pages 389-390
Front Matter....Pages 391-392
Inter-Subband Scattering and Thermalization of Electrons in Quantum Wells Studied with Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 393-393
Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Intersubband Hot Hole Relaxation in Quantum Wells....Pages 395-397
Sub-Picosecond Far-Infrared Transient-Grating Measurements of Electron Cooling in InAs and GaSb....Pages 398-399
Hot Electron Reaction Dynamics at GaAs(100) Surface Quantum Wells....Pages 400-401
Ultrafast Gain in Semiconductors....Pages 402-403
Femtosecond Kinetics of Freely Relaxing Non-Fermi Carrier Distributions in GaAs....Pages 404-405
Determination of the Electron Mobility in Multiple Quantum Wells by Time-Resolved Optical Measurements....Pages 406-407
Ultrafast Excitation and Deexcitation of Local Vibrational Modes in a Solid Matrix: The Si-H Bond in Amorphous Silicon....Pages 408-409
Femtosecond Carrier Spin Dynamics in CdTe/Cd 0.6 Mn 0.4 Te Quantum Wells....Pages 410-411
Front Matter....Pages 412-413
Spin Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Nickel Films....Pages 393-393
Saturation of the Two-Photon Absorption in CdS....Pages 414-415
Femtosecond Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in a 350 μ m Undoped InP at Far Below Band Gap....Pages 416-417
Front Matter....Pages 418-419
Coherence Transfer in Exciton-Exciton Scattering in a Semiconductor Microcavity....Pages 421-421
Ultrafast Oscillations in the Optical Emission from a Semiconductor Microcavity....Pages 423-424
Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in Strain-Induced InGaAs Quantum Dots....Pages 425-426
Ultrafast Dephasing Dynamics and Multi-Level Electronic Structure of InP Nanocrystals....Pages 427-428
Size Dependent Absorption Anisotropy Measurements of CdSe Nanocrystals: Symmetry Assignments for the Lowest Electronic States....Pages 429-430
Interfacial Electron Transfer in Dye Sensitised Nanocrystalline TiO 2 Films....Pages 431-432
Ultrafast Ionization Dynamics in Laser-Driven Clusters....Pages 433-434
Ultrafast Line-Broadening of the Surface Plasmon in Au-Colloids Embedded in a Dielectric Sol-Gel Matrix....Pages 435-436
Confinement Effects on the Electron Thermalization Process in Tin Nanocrystals....Pages 437-438
Quasi-Zero-Dimensional Media Formed by Thin-Film Technique: Microstructure, Subpicosecond Optical Nonlinearities, Applications....Pages 439-440
Front Matter....Pages 441-442
Femtosecond Studies of Electron Dynamics in Two Dimensions....Pages 443-443
Time-Resolved Two-Color Photoelectron Spectroscopy at Bare and Adsorbate Covered Metal Surfaces....Pages 445-447
Hot-Electron Dynamics at Cu Surfaces....Pages 448-449
Applications of Femtosecond Lasers to Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Process Control of Si(001) Interfaces....Pages 450-451
Surface Second Harmonic Generation from the Si/SiO 2 Interface Using 10 fs Pulses....Pages 452-454
Ultrafast Surface Reaction and Desorption Probed by Femtosecond Second Harmonic Generation: Cl Etching of Si(111) Surface....Pages 455-456
Laser-Induced Softening of Coherent Phonons: Pathway to Nonthermal Melting....Pages 457-458
Front Matter....Pages 459-460
Ultrafast Nonlinearity of Metallic Indium Across the Liquid-Solid Transition....Pages 443-443
Electron-Lattice Heating from Avalanche Ionization in Silicon with Near Infrared Ultrafast Laser Pulses....Pages 461-462
Femtosecond Melting Rates of Crystalline and Amorphous Column IV Elements....Pages 463-464
Back Matter....Pages 465-466
....Pages 467-474