Ultrafast Phenomena XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, July 12–17, 1998

Front Matter....Pages I-XXV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sub-5-fs Pulses: Generation, Characterisation, and Experiments....Pages 3-7
Generation of Intense Diffraction-Limited White Light and 4-fs Pulses....Pages 8-10
Broadband Operation of a Ti:Sapphire Laser Using Novel Double-Chirped Mirrors and Semiconductor Saturable Absorbers....Pages 11-13
Improved Broadband Double-Chirped Mirrors with Controlled Dispersion Characteristics....Pages 14-16
A New Type of Saturable Bragg Reflector with Record-Low Saturation Fluence and Broad Tuning Range....Pages 17-19
Time-Resolved Measurement of Electronic and Vibrational Nonlinear Refraction in Ti:sapphire and Cr:LiSGaF....Pages 20-23
Generation of amplified shaped pulses for highly adiabatic excitation....Pages 24-26
Transient Excited-State Absorption Measurement in Chromium Doped Forsterite....Pages 27-29
Ultrafast Fiber Lasers....Pages 30-34
First Experimental Observation of Polarization Locked Temporal Vector Solitons....Pages 35-37
Time-Domain Jitter Measurement of Modelocked Fiber Lasers....Pages 38-40
0.28 TW laser system at 1 kHz, Scaleable to 2 TW at 1 kHz....Pages 41-43
Generation of 100 TW, Sub-20 fs Pulses at a 10 Hz Repetition Rate in Ti:Sapphire....Pages 44-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Ultra-Broadband Optical Parametric Amplifiers in the Visible and in the Near-Infrared....Pages 49-53
Sub-5-fs Pulse Generation by Pulse-front-matched Optical Parametric Amplification....Pages 54-56
Tunable Visible and NIR Parametric Amplifiers at 1 kHz and Pulse Lengths Down to 10 fs....Pages 57-59
Parametric chirped pulse microamplifier based on engineerable quasi-phase-matched LiNbO 3 ....Pages 60-62
High Repetition Rate Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator....Pages 63-65
Generation of High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Infrared Pulses Tunable from 9 to 18 µm....Pages 66-68
A Proof of Principle Experiment of Sum Frequency Generation Using Chirped Pulses....Pages 69-71
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
A Novel Scheme for High-Intensity Ultrashort Pulse Generation....Pages 72-74
Self-focusing in waveguides....Pages 75-77
Observation of Raman Self-Conversion of fs-pulse Frequency due to Impulsive Excitation of Molecular Vibrations....Pages 78-80
Spatio-temporal coherence properties of super-continuum single filament in bulk media....Pages 81-83
Second Harmonic Pulse Compression....Pages 84-86
Adaptive Control of Pulse Phase In A Chirped Pulse Amplifier....Pages 87-89
Wavefront Correction of High Intensity Femtosecond Lasers....Pages 90-91
Spatiotemporal Imaging, Spatiotemporal Pulse Shaping, and Spatiotemporal Coherent Control....Pages 92-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Infrared streak camera....Pages 97-99
In-situ Waveform Retrieval and Display of Femtosecond Optical Pulses and Picosecond Electrical Pulses....Pages 100-102
Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric Field Reconstruction of Ultrashort Optical Pulses....Pages 103-105
Spatial-temporal field distribution of self-focused femtosecond pulses....Pages 106-108
Pulse Characterization Techniques for sub-30 Femtosecond Terawatt Lasers....Pages 109-111
Single-Shot Third-Order Correlator for Femtosecond Terawatt Ti:sapphire Lasers....Pages 112-114
Temporal evolution of selfguided femtosecond laser pulses in the presence of Kerr-nonlinearity and ionisation....Pages 115-117
Femtosecond Lidar....Pages 118-120
Superluminal Localized Waves in Femtosecond Optics....Pages 121-123
Even-order nonlinear interaction of focused femtosecond beam with the bulk of chiral media....Pages 124-126
Complete Electric Field of Femtosecond Photon Echoes at Their Point of Origin....Pages 127-129
Characterization of the Complex Third-order Susceptibility of Myoglobin using Diffractive Optics....Pages 130-132
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Time domain separation of the nuclear and electronic contributions to the third order nonlinearity in glasses....Pages 133-135
Multiple-Pulse Control and Bispectral 2D Raman Analysis of Nonlinear Lattice Dynamics....Pages 136-138
Engineering Quantum Indistinguishability in Ultrafast Parametric Downconversion....Pages 139-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Ultrafast Laser Technology Applied to Whole-Field Fluorescence Lifetime Changing....Pages 145-149
Optical Coherence Tomography using Femtosecond Lasers....Pages 150-152
3D-microscopy using third-harmonic generation at interfaces in biological and non-biological specimens....Pages 153-155
Ultrafast STM-tip Localized Responses from Nanostructured Surfaces....Pages 156-158
Ultrafast Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Using a Photoexcited Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs Tip....Pages 159-161
Photoconductive sampling with a scanning tunneling microscope....Pages 162-164
Femtosecond Nonlinear Microscopy of Photodetectors....Pages 165-167
Time-Resolved Near-Field Spectroscopy of the Carrier Dynamics in single GaAs Nanostructures....Pages 168-170
Time resolved near field imaging and diffraction with sub-wavelength far-infrared dipole sources....Pages 171-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing at Over 100 Gbit/s with Mode-Locked Semiconductor Diode Lasers....Pages 177-181
Characterization of Interferometric Switching Devices for Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing....Pages 182-184
Measurement of 1.4 THz Beat Frequencies from a Dual Wavelength Gain-Switched Laser Diode using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating....Pages 185-187
Spectral Holography For Dynamic Dispersion Compensation....Pages 188-190
Femtosecond Optical Pulse Generation from CW Laser Using Electrooptic Phase Modulator Featuring Lens Modulation....Pages 191-193
Characterization of > 300 GHz Transistors Using a Novel Optoelectronic Network Analyzer....Pages 194-196
Free-Space Electro-Optic Detection of THz Radiation with Chirped Optical Beam....Pages 197-201
Spectrum control of intense THz-radiation from InAs under magnetic field irradiated with stretched femtosecond laser pulses....Pages 202-204
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Dithered-edge sampling of terahertz pulses: fast detection using slow photoconductive receivers....Pages 205-207
Driving Intersubband Transitions With THz Pulses....Pages 208-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Quantum Interference Control of Free Carriers in Semiconductors....Pages 213-217
Optical Control of Precession of Mn 2+ Moment in CdTe/Cd 1-x Mn x Te Quantum Wells....Pages 218-220
Ultrafast Time-Resolved Quantum Beats in the Polarization State of Coherent Emission from Quantum Wells....Pages 221-223
Femtosecond Coherent Response of Spin-orbit Split-off Excitons in InP....Pages 224-226
Femtosecond Dynamics and Coherence Properties of Resonant Secondary Emission from Excitons in GaAs Quantum Wells....Pages 227-229
Femtosecond Interferometric Measurements of Secondary Emission from Resonantly Excited Quantum Wells....Pages 230-232
Quantum coherence dynamics of 2D excitons....Pages 233-235
Femtosecond Two Color Four-Wave Mixing Experiments on GaAs Quantum Wells Using Two Independently Tunable Lasers....Pages 236-238
Temporal and Spectral Characteristics of Radiatively Coupled Excitons in Multiple Quantum Wells....Pages 239-241
Pulse Breakup due to Coherent Self-Induced Transmission on a Free Exciton Resonance....Pages 242-244
Excitonic Quantum Beating in Space- and Time- Resolved Pump and Probe Experiments....Pages 245-247
Ultrafast phase relaxation of confined excitons in CuCl nanocrystals: Non-Markovian behaviors....Pages 248-250
Study of hexagonal GaN by femtosecond- excitation correlation measurement and degenerate four-wave-mixing....Pages 251-253
Evidence of Trion and Carrier Localization in Modulation Doped Quantum Wells by fs and ps FWM Studies....Pages 254-256
Ultrafast pump-probe signals at the band edge of bulk GaAs: Excitonic versus free carrier contributions....Pages 257-259
Femtosecond Coherent Dynamics of Free Carriers in Semiconductors....Pages 260-262
Intraband Coherence after Energy Relaxation....Pages 263-265
Subpicosecond Carrier-Phonon Interactions in GaAs/Al x Ga 1-x As MQW’: Plasmon-Phonon Coupling Mediated by Well-to-Well Coupling in MQW’s....Pages 266-268
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Study of coherent folded acoustic phonons in GaAs/AlAs superlattices by two-color pump-probe technique....Pages 269-271
Coherent Acoustic Phonon Oscillations in Superlattices....Pages 272-274
High-Field Transport in Semiconductors Studied via Ultrabroadband THz Sampling....Pages 275-277
Kinetics of Four-Wave Mixing for a Magnetoplasma in a Quantum Well....Pages 278-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Ultrafast Heating and Cooling of Electrons in GaAs at Room Temperature....Pages 283-285
Effects of carrier screening and state filling on the carrier scattering of Si doped GaAs....Pages 286-288
Ultrafast Nonlinear Absorption in an Exciton Bragg Reflector....Pages 289-291
Super-Radiant Decay in Two-Dimensional Layered Semiconductors....Pages 292-294
Spectral Hole Burning in Intersubband Absorption Bands of Quantum-Well-Structures....Pages 295-297
Ultrafast Carrier Capture into InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Wells....Pages 298-300
Femtosecond Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers: Dark Pulse Formation....Pages 301-303
Ultrafast Dynamics of Field-Induced Charge Generation in Conducting Polymers....Pages 304-306
Ultrafast Phase Transition in GeSb Films Triggered by Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 307-309
Time of Flight Mass Spectroscopy of Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Solid Surfaces....Pages 310-312
Nanometer precision material ablation and optical breakdown with sub-10 fs pulses....Pages 313-315
Time Resolved Studies of Femtosecond Laser Induced Ablation from Solid Surfaces....Pages 316-318
Surface Modifications in Transparent Dielectrics Induced by a Mid-Infrared Free-Electron Laser....Pages 319-321
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Direct Measurement of the Valence Band Decoherence in Copper....Pages 325-329
Lifetime Effects of Xenon Adsorption on the Image-Potential States of Ru(0001)....Pages 330-332
Dephasing of Image-Potential States on Cu(100) upon CO Adsorption Measured by Femtosecond Two-Photon Photoemission Spectroscopy....Pages 333-335
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Excited Electron Dynamics at Benzene/Ag(111)....Pages 336-338
New Directions in Nonlinear Surface Spectroscopy Enabled by Ultrafast Lasers....Pages 339-341
Ultrafast broadband (0.5–2.5eV) absorption spectroscopy of a one-dimensional mixed-valence metal complex....Pages 342-344
Ultrafast Surface Plasmon Resonance Nonlinearities in Noble Metal Nanoparticles....Pages 345-349
Nonlinear Optical Interplay Between Different Surface Plasmons in Silver Nano-Ellipsoids....Pages 350-352
Femtosecond spectroscopy of silver nanoparticles in different dielectric matrixes....Pages 353-355
Ultrafast Relaxation Processes in Au Quantum Dots at High Pulse Repetition Frequencies....Pages 356-358
Femtosecond demagnetization of ferromagnetic CoPt 3 thin films and Ni nanoparticles....Pages 359-361
Generation of Coherent and Squeezed Phonon Fields Using Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 362-364
Nonequilibrium Superconductivity and Quasiparticle Dynamics in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 ....Pages 365-367
Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Nonequilibrium Excitations in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ ....Pages 368-370
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
Phase-matched Generation of Short Wavelength, Ultrashort-pulse Light in Capillary Waveguides....Pages 373-377
Generation of Near-keV High Harmonic Radiation With a Sub-10fs Laser....Pages 378-380
Temporal Broadening Of Femtosecond High Harmonic Radiation....Pages 381-383
High-Order Harmonic Generation and Quasi-Phase-Matching With Self-Guided Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 384-386
Kilohertz High Harmonic Generation in Hollow Core Fibers....Pages 387-389
Generation of “Dark” Femtosecond Synchrotron Pulses from the Advanced Light Source....Pages 390-392
Disorder in Solids Studied on an Ultrashort Timescale using Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 393-397
Vacuum Heating vs. Resonance Absorption in the Solid to Plasma Transition of fs-Laser-Irradiated Iron and Aluminum....Pages 398-400
Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in InSb Probed by Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction....Pages 401-403
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
Time-resolved x-ray diffraction of GaAs with a 20-fs, laser-driven plasma source....Pages 404-406
Interaction of Superintense Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Cluster-like Solids....Pages 407-409
Probing Black Hole Physics in the Laboratory Using High Intensity Femtosecond Lasers....Pages 410-414
Experimental observation of photon acceleration of femtosecond laser pulses in relativistic under-dense ionization fronts....Pages 415-417
Generation of Ultrashort Electron Bunches Using Table-Top Laser-Plasma-Based Electron Accelerators....Pages 418-420
Ultrafast optical diagnostics for laser driven wakefields and plasma fibers....Pages 421-423
Ultrafast Plasma Studies by Phase Measurements with Femtosecond Spectral Interferometry....Pages 424-426
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Complete Measurement and Control of Rydberg Wave Packets....Pages 429-431
Collective Multi-Electron Tunneling in State- and Charge-Selected Atoms in Strong Fields....Pages 432-434
Femtosecond time-resolved experiments in atomic calcium in weak and strong laser fields....Pages 435-437
Femtosecond Coherent Spectroscopy at 800nm: MI-FROG Measures High-Field Ionization Rates in Gases....Pages 438-440
Resonant Effects in Above Threshold Ionization....Pages 441-443
Imaging of ions produced by femtosecond laser induced Coulomb explosion of molecules....Pages 444-446
Coulomb Explosion Imaging of H 2 + ....Pages 447-449
High Resolution Investigation of H 2 + Exploding in a High Intensity Ultrashort Laser Pulse....Pages 450-452
Photodissociation of Na 2 + in intense femtosecond laser fields....Pages 453-455
Time-Resolved Configuration Interaction....Pages 456-458
Ultrafast Dissociation Dynamics of Polynuclear Organometallic Compounds in the Gas Phase....Pages 459-461
Vibrational ladder climbing with chirped pulses....Pages 462-464
Optimal laser control for photoisomerization....Pages 465-467
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Quantum Control of Femtosecond Multiphoton Absorption via Chirp....Pages 468-470
Automated Coherent Control of Chemical Reactions and Pulse Compression by an Evolutionary Algorithm with Feedback....Pages 471-473
Dynamics of Charge-Transfer-to-Solvent Precursor States in I - (D 2 O) n Clusters....Pages 474-478
Analysis of the femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectra of the ammonia dimer excited to the à state....Pages 479-481
Time-Resolved Observation of Geometrical Reorientations of Metal Clusters....Pages 482-484
Experimental Observation of Resonance Effects in Intensely Irradiated Atomic Clusters....Pages 485-487
Front Matter....Pages 489-489
Conical Intersections and Femtosecond Dynamics....Pages 491-495
Vibrational Coherence in Excited State of an Electron Donor-Acceptor Complex....Pages 496-498
Ultrafast Vibrational Energy Transfer Studied by a Novel Spectrometer....Pages 499-501
Ultrafast Relaxation Processes of Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited State in One-Dimensional Metal Complex....Pages 502-504
Sub-picosecond Interfacial Electron Injection in Dye Sensitized Titanium Dioxide Films....Pages 505-507
Local Density Effects in the Energy Relaxation of Vibrationally Highly Excited Molecules from the Gas to the Compressed Liquid Phase....Pages 508-510
The UV Band System of the Allyl Radical, Studied by Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 511-513
Vibrational relaxation and dephasing of small molecules strongly interacting with water....Pages 514-516
Anomalous 1-ps relaxation of excited exciton in J-aggregates of three-level molecules....Pages 517-519
Coherence from Femtosecond Fluorescence Interference Noise-Terahertz Electronic Beatings in Pentacene....Pages 520-522
Fluorescence of Dye Molecules Embedded in a Photonic Crystal....Pages 523-525
Front Matter....Pages 527-527
Chirped wavepacket dynamics of solvating HgBr....Pages 529-531
A Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Approach to Solvation Dynamics Tested by Three Pulse Photon Echo Measurements....Pages 532-534
Dynamics of Site-Specific Excited-State Solute-Solvent Interactions as Probed by Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy....Pages 535-537
Front Matter....Pages 527-527
Studies of Molecular Interactions and Collective Liquid Motions with Two-Dimensional Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 538-540
Two-Dimensional Raman-Echo Spectroscopy; Femtosecond View of Vibrational Coherence....Pages 541-543
Ultrafast solvation dynamics and quantum beats....Pages 544-546
Ultrafast Relaxation of the Dye LDS-750 in Solution: Dependence on Excitation Wavelength....Pages 547-549
Optically Induced SHG as a Probe of Orientational Dynamics in Liquids....Pages 550-552
Solvation Dynamics in Restricted Environments: Solvent Immobilization in Reverse Micelles....Pages 553-555
Photon Echo Studies of Solute-Solvent Interaction Dynamics in Polymer Glasses....Pages 556-558
Ultrafast measurement of microscopic chemical environments using high intensity chirped pulses....Pages 559-561
Femtosecond mid-infrared pump-probe spectroscopy of water and ice....Pages 562-564
Time-Resolved THz Studies of Liquid Dynamics....Pages 565-567
THz Reflection Spectroscopy of H 2 O(1) and D 2 O(1)....Pages 568-570
Subpicosecond Holeburning Spectroscopy of Water in the Infrared: Dynamics of Local Structures....Pages 571-573
Dynamics of the Hydrogen-Bond in Liquid Water....Pages 574-576
Mode Coupling Mechanisms in Liquids Studied by 2D Raman Scattering....Pages 577-579
Electronic “Bubble” Dynamics in Solid Argon....Pages 580-582
Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy on the Equilibrated Aqueous Solvated Electron: Isotope Effects and Saturation Studies....Pages 583-585
Hydrated Electron Dynamics on a 5-fs Timescale....Pages 586-588
Femtosecond Pump-Probe-Spectroscopy of the Solvated Electron in Water and Aqueous Salt Solutions....Pages 589-591
Excitation Energy Dependence of the H/D Isotope Effect in the Geminate Recombination of Hydrated Electrons....Pages 592-594
Front Matter....Pages 595-595
Investigating the Photochemical Dynamics of Chlorine Dioxide in Water and Acetonitrile using Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy....Pages 597-599
Front Matter....Pages 595-595
Instantaneous Product Anisotropies in the fs-Photolysis of Triiodide....Pages 600-602
Photoinduced Release of Nitric Oxide from S-nitrosoglutathione....Pages 603-605
Aromatic solute photoionization studied by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy....Pages 606-608
Ultrafast Photomodulation of Conformation in Azobenzene Containing Cyclic Peptides....Pages 609-611
Potential Energy Surfaces for Ultrafast Photochemistry: Short Chain Polyenes and Protonated Schiff Bases....Pages 612-614
Ultrafast photoisomerizations and S 1 /S 0 internal conversions in organic and inorganic molecules: evidence for easily accessible conical intersections....Pages 615-617
Femtosecond Dynamics of Quantum Dissipative Systems: Localization of Electrons at Interfaces....Pages 618-620
Ultrafast reaction in solvated metal atom clusters: A dynamic study in the visible and near IR spectral range....Pages 621-623
Photodissociation of CH 2 I 2 and the Subsequent Electron Transfer in Its Cluster Formed in Solution....Pages 624-626
Dynamics of Excited-State Evolution in Transition Metal Complexes: Time Resolving Electron Delocalization....Pages 627-629
Modulation of Ultrafast Electron Transfer Dynamics by Wavepacket Motion in Oxazine 1....Pages 630-632
Site Dependent Electron Transfer Reaction in Solution....Pages 633-635
Measurements and Theoretical Modelling of Ultrafast Heterogeneous Spacer-Controlled Electron Transfer....Pages 636-638
Femtosecond IR Study of Ru(II)(SCN) 2 (dcbpy) 2 Sensitized Nanocrystalline TiO 2 Thin Films: Ultrafast Electron Injection and Relaxation Dynamics....Pages 639-641
Femtosecond Photoselectivity in Intramolecular Double Proton Transfer in [2,2′-bipyridyl]-3,3′- diol....Pages 642-644
Feedback Quantum Control of Population Transfer Using Shaped Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 645-647
Control of Condensed Phase Molecular Excitation with Intense Infrared and Visible Chirped Pulses....Pages 648-649
Front Matter....Pages 651-651
Femtosecond Dynamics, Two Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy and Echoes of Protein Vibrations....Pages 653-657
Three Pulse Echo Peak Shift Measurements and ab initio Excited State Calculations of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Function....Pages 658-662
Two-Dimensional Femtosecond Spectroscopies of Coupled Chromophores....Pages 663-665
Front Matter....Pages 651-651
Fluorescence Upconversion and ab initio Studies of the Light-Harvesting Function of Carotenoids in Bacterial Light-Harvesting Antenna....Pages 666-668
Dynamics of Energy Transfer in the LH2 Antenna Complex of the Purple Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides ....Pages 669-671
Ultrafast Singlet Energy Transfer in a Carotenopyropheophorbide Dyad: A Biomimetic Model for Photosynthetic Light Harvesting?....Pages 672-674
Adiabatic Behaviour in the Primary Photosynthetic Electron Transfer....Pages 675-677
Characterization of the Ultrafast Processes in the Trimeric Photosystem I Complex by Femtosecond Transient Absorption....Pages 678-680
Single and Double Mutants of Bacteriorhodopsin and their Impact on Photoisomerization....Pages 681-683
Femtosecond-Picosecond Fluorescence Studies on Excited State Dynamics of Photoactive Yellow Protein (PYP) and It’s Site — Directed Mutants....Pages 684-686
Femtosecond Lasers for Ultra-Accurate Surgery: Application to Corneal Surgery....Pages 687-691
Back Matter....Pages 693-698