Ultrafast Phenomena XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, Charleston, SC, USA, July 9-13, 2000

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Odyssey of Kent Wilson: Holding Molecules in the Light....Pages 3-9
The Kent Wilson Group in the 1990s....Pages 10-13
Algorithms for Closed Loop Ultrafast Control of Quantum Dynamics....Pages 14-18
Control of Quantum Dynamics by Adaptive Femtosecond Pulse Shaping....Pages 19-23
Optimal control of two-photon transitions: bright and dark femtosecond pulses designed by a self-learning algorithm....Pages 24-26
Feedback optimization of molecular states using a parameterization in frequency and time domain....Pages 27-29
Controlling and Probing Impulsively Induced Ground State Vibrational Dynamics....Pages 30-32
Dynamics and Coherent Control of Condensed Phase Vibrational Coherences....Pages 33-35
Spatiotemporal Coherent Control....Pages 36-38
Coherent Control and Nonlinear Interactions of Semiconductor Cavity Polaritons....Pages 39-41
Coherent Control of XUV Radiation....Pages 42-44
Enhancement of Kα yield from femtosecond laser produced plasmas by automated control of plasma parameters....Pages 45-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Challenges and Limitations on Generating Few Cycle Laser Pulses directly from Oscillators....Pages 51-55
Extremely Flexible and Accurate Chirp Compensation for 75-MHz Repetitive Glass Fiber Output of a More-Than 100-THz Bandwidth -- Generation of a-Few-Optical-Cycle Transform-Limited Pulses--....Pages 56-58
14-fs Pulses at 1.3-µm Generated from an All-Solid-State Cr:Forsterite Laser....Pages 59-61
Smooth dispersion compensation: novel chirped mirrors with suppressed dispersion oscillations....Pages 62-64
Dispersion Management over one Octave with Tilted-Front-Interface Chirped Mirrors....Pages 65-67
A prism-pair-formed pulse shaper compresses optical pulses to the 6-fs regime....Pages 68-70
Correcting the Failure of the Slowly Varying Amplitude Approximation for Short Pulses....Pages 71-73
Precise Control of the Pulse-to-Pulse Carrier-Envelope Phase in a Mode-Locked Laser....Pages 74-78
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Carrier Envelope Offset Phase Stabilization for Few-Cycle Nonlinear Optics....Pages 79-81
Sub-10-fs light pulses with stabilized carrier-envelope phase: optical waveform synthesis....Pages 82-86
Frequency Domain Control of Femtosecond Pulse Trains with Fabry-Perot Reference Cavities for Optical Frequency Metrology....Pages 87-89
Nonlinear Optical Method for Determining the Absolute Carrier Phase of a Laser Pulse....Pages 90-92
Generation of Relativistic Intensity Pulses at 300-Hz Repetition Rate....Pages 93-95
Reflection-double-pass, Ti:sapphire continuous-wave amplifier delivering 5.77-W average power, 82-MHz repetition rate, 100-fs pulse....Pages 96-98
Chirped pulse amplification for ultraviolet femtosecond pulses using Ce:LiCAF crystal....Pages 99-101
Parabolic Pulses from Yb:fiber Amplifiers: A New Paradigm for High Power Ultrashort Pulse Generation....Pages 102-104
Generation. Amplification and Characterization of Tunable Visible Ultrashort Shaped Pulses....Pages 105-107
Synthesis of Supershort UV-Pulses Using Phase-Locked Raman Side-Band Generation....Pages 108-111
Generation and measurement of ultrafast tunable VUV light....Pages 112-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Autocorrelation Measurement of Femtosecond Optical Pulses Using Two-Photon-Induced Photocurrent in a Photomultiplier Tube....Pages 117-119
Precision and accuracy of ultrashort optical pulse measurement using SPIDER....Pages 120-122
Highly SimplifiedUltrashort Pulse Measurement....Pages 123-125
Time-gated FROG: A new technique for studying the buildup of optical pulse field in mode-locked ultrafast lasers....Pages 126-128
Measuring the intensity and phase of ultrabroaband continuum....Pages 129-131
Amplitude and Phase Measurement of Mid-IR Femtosecond Pulses Using XFROG....Pages 132-134
Rapid retrieval of ultrashort pulse amplitude and phase from a sonogram trace....Pages 135-137
Simultaneous two-dimensional Space and Time Measurement of Ultrashort Optical Pulses based on Spatial-Spectral Interferometry.....Pages 138-140
Reliability of Fourier-transform spectral interferometry....Pages 141-143
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Direct Measurement of Spectral Phase of Femtosecond Pulses using Optical Parametric Effect....Pages 144-146
Ultrashort Pulse Characterization by Frequency-Resolved Pump-Probe....Pages 147-149
Attosecond Cross Correlation Technique....Pages 150-152
Unbalanced multiphoton autocorrelation techniques for fs pulse measurements in the near ir....Pages 153-155
Unbalanced Third-Order Correlations for Characterizing the Intensity and Phase of Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 156-158
Spectral phase correlator for coded waveform recognition using second harmonie generation....Pages 159-161
Femtosecond nonlinear polarization evolution from cascade quadratic processes....Pages 162-164
Femtosecond polarization detection using high-speed pulse shaping....Pages 165-167
Tunable third-order dispersion of a prismatic pulse compressor....Pages 168-170
Nonlinear Dispersion Properties Of Sub-wavelength Photonic Crystals....Pages 171-173
Carrier-induced optical pulse shaping in a semiconductor nonlinear Bragg reflector....Pages 174-176
20-fs pulse shaping with a 512-element phase only liquid crystal modulator....Pages 177-179
Coherently controlled shaping of ultrafast electric field-transients in the mid-infrared....Pages 180-182
Spatial Replenishment and Self-Focusing Dynamics of Ultrashort Laser Pulses....Pages 183-185
Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers....Pages 186-188
Microcavity-enhanced surface-emitted second-harmonic generation for signal processing in the ps and fs regimes....Pages 189-191
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy Utilizing Optical Kerr Shutter: Direct Observation of a Temporal Fluorescence Band Shape....Pages 192-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
An intense broadband terahertz source based on a novel four wave rectification process....Pages 197-199
THz generation by photo-ionization of electrically biased air....Pages 200-202
Coherent THz emission from optically pumped intersubband plasmons in parabolic quantum wells....Pages 203-205
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Narrow-Band Terahertz Wavetrains Generated by Optical Rectification in Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate....Pages 206-208
Optimum geometrical conditions for femtosecond-laser-irradiated, magnetic-field enchanced, THz-radiation InAs emitter and its saturation effect in high magnetic field....Pages 209-211
Tunable Coherent Far Infrared Radiation Emission from Biased Semiconductor Microcavities....Pages 212-214
Amplitude and Phase Resolved Detection of Tunable Femtosecond Pulses with Frequency Components beyond 100 THz....Pages 215-217
Ultrabroadband detection of THz radiation by LT-GaAs photoconductive antenna gated with 15-fs laser pulses....Pages 218-220
A Simple Terahertz Spectrometer....Pages 221-223
Ultrafast Applications of THz Waveguides....Pages 224-228
Variable Angle Impulse Ranging and Image Reconstruction of Dielectric Cylinders....Pages 229-231
Dielectric Property Measurement of Sub-micron Thin Film by Differential Time-domain Spectroscopy....Pages 232-234
Excitation Dynamics beyond the Slowly-Varying Envelope Approximation....Pages 235-237
THz-Pulse Studies of Superluminal Propagation in Frustrated Total Internal Reflection....Pages 238-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Optical Coherence Tomography for Biomedical Imaging....Pages 243-247
Ultrahigh resolution OCT using continuum generation in an air-silica microstructure optical fiber....Pages 248-250
Intracellular water diffusion probed by femtosecond nonlinear CARS microscopy....Pages 251-255
Ultrafast near-field pump-probe spectroscopy of quasi-one-dimensional transport in a single quantum wire....Pages 256-258
Femtosecond Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy of Molecular Thin Films .....Pages 259-261
Background-free THz Imaging using Interferometric Tomography....Pages 262-264
Diagnosis of Dental Cavity and Osteoporosis Using Terahertz Transmission Images....Pages 265-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Femtosecond X-ray Pulses from a Synchrotron....Pages 271-275
Direct Observation of Ultrafast Non-thermal Melting by Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction....Pages 276-280
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Time-resolved x-ray diffraction study of ultrafast acoustic phonon dynamics in Ge/Si-heterostructures....Pages 281-283
Picosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction from a silicon crystal under laser-induced breakdown....Pages 284-286
Time-resolved x-ray measurements of polaron dynamics of charge-ordered Nd 1/2 Sr 1/2 MnO 3 ....Pages 287-289
High-Order Harmonic Generation in the Few-Optical-Cycle Regime: Spectral Characteristics and Modeling....Pages 290-292
Nonadiabatic Self-Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation....Pages 293-295
Diffraction Limited Emission of High Order Harmonics from Solid Surfaces....Pages 296-298
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Luminescence Spectroscopy of Inner-Shell Excitation by HighOrder Harmonics....Pages 299-301
Femtosecond X-ray fluorescence from light elements excited by laser harmonics....Pages 302-304
Emission of highly-charged ions of heavy elements from a picosecond laser-produced plasma....Pages 305-307
Evanescent-Wave Acceleration of Ultrashort Electron Pulses....Pages 308-310
Pulse Compression in Plasma: Generation of Femtosecond Pulses Without CPA....Pages 311-313
Dynamic Stark Effect in Rydberg NO Induced by Intense Laser Pulses....Pages 314-316
Ultrafast transient-grating study of molecules after high intensity excitation....Pages 317-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Stepwise Electron Emission from Autoionizing Magnesium Stark States....Pages 323-325
Centrifugal Dissociation of a Molecule Using the Optical Centrifuge....Pages 326-330
State-selective Rotational Coherence Spectroscopy by Two-color Pump-Probe Schemes....Pages 331-334
Vibrational revivals in the Iodine B-state from femtosecond fluorescence interference noise....Pages 335-337
Untangling π-π*/n-π* Orbital Interactions via Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 338-340
Change of ultrafast ammonia cluster dynamics by a femtosecond infrared control pulse....Pages 341-343
Observation of the Lorentz Local Field in a Dense Atomic Vapor Using Transient Spectroscopy....Pages 344-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Resonant Rayleigh Scattering from Semiconductor Nanostructures: Ultrafast Spectral Interferometry....Pages 349-353
Radiative interwell coupling of hh-, lh-excitons, and correlated electron-hole pairs in multiple quantum well Bragg samples....Pages 354-356
Highly Energetic Excitons in GaAs Studied via Femtosecond Transmission Spectroscopy....Pages 357-359
Ultrafast Electro-Absorption at the Transition between Classical and Quantum Response....Pages 360-362
Sub-Picosecond Dynamics of the Photo-Induced Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in CdTe at Room Temperature....Pages 363-365
Femtosecond Optical Time-of-Flight Measurement of the Electron Velocity in GaN....Pages 366-368
Femtosecond intersubband dynamics of holes in p-type Si 1-x Ge x /Si multiple quantum wells....Pages 369-371
Femtosecond Mid-Infrared study of electron dynamics in self-organized InAs quantum wires on InAIAs/InP (001)....Pages 372-374
Size and Surface Dependence of Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in CdSe Quantum Dots Determined by Fluorescence Upconversion Spectroscopy....Pages 375-377
Investigation of phase change in Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 films by coherent phonon spectroscopy....Pages 378-380
Generation of Coherent LO Phonons in GaAs/AlGaAs MQW’s by the Impulsive Stimulated Raman Scattering....Pages 381-383
Observation of coherent confined LO phonons in 70 Ge/ 74 Ge isotope superlattices....Pages 384-386
Effect of lattice defects on LO phonon-plasmon coupled modes in n-GaAs....Pages 387-389
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Ultrafast dynamics of excitonic self-trapping: The role of the electron-phonon interaction....Pages 393-397
Femtosecond and Attosecond Giant Optical Responses and Fluctuations in Disordered Clusters, Nanocomposites, and Rough Surfaces....Pages 398-400
Electron Energy Relaxation Dependent on Size and Matrix in Gold Nanocrystal-Dielectric Composites....Pages 401-403
Femtosecond photoemission studies of the transient electron temperature in supported metal nanoparticles....Pages 404-406
Acoustic vibrations of silver nanoparticles....Pages 407-409
Ultrafast Interferometric Studies of Multiple Scattering of Light in Photonic Structures....Pages 410-412
Resolving Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron Thermalization in Gold using Surface SHG....Pages 413-415
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Analysis of Hot Electron Cascades in Copper....Pages 416-418
Phonon-Pair combination states driven by second-order Raman scattering in KTa0 3 ....Pages 419-421
Temporally decorrelated muItifocal array for high-speed, high-resolution, muItiphoton imaging and micromachining....Pages 422-424
Femtosecond laser-induced ablation of graphite....Pages 425-427
Femtosecond mid-infrared study of the high-T c superconductor YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-∂ ....Pages 428-430
Observation of the Josephson Plasma Resonance in Tl 2 Ba 2 CaCu 2 O 8 using THz Spectroscopy....Pages 431-433
Ultrafast THz conductivity dynamics: spinlattice relaxation in colossal magnetoresistive oxides....Pages 434-436
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
Femtosecond Electron Dynamics at Surfaces and Interfaces.....Pages 439-443
Spectral Sensitization, Supersensitization and Ultrafast Exciton Migration on AgBr Semiconductor Surface....Pages 444-446
Ultrafast interfacial charge separation from the singlet and triplet MLCT states of Ru(bpy) 2 (dcbpy) adsorbed on nanocrystalline SnO 2 under applied bias....Pages 447-449
Femtosecond IR Study of Ultrafast Electron Injection in Nanocrystalline Thin Film Electrodes....Pages 450-452
Unique curve crossing and vibrational wavepacket behavior of femtosecond heterogeneous electron transfer....Pages 453-455
Surface States Control Ultrafast Electron Injection in Dye/Semiconductor Colloidal Systems....Pages 456-458
THz Pump-Probe Measurements of Electrons in Non-Polar Liquids....Pages 459-463
Photon-Echo Spectroscopy of the Hydrated Electron with 5-fs Pulses....Pages 464-466
Ultrafast thermalization dynamics of hot photoelectrons injected into water....Pages 467-469
Mid-IR Detection of a Precursor to the Prehydrated Electron....Pages 470-472
Novel fs-Precursors of Solvated Electrons in Water in the MIR: A Charge Transfer Process....Pages 473-475
Femtosecond Study of Electron Photodetachment from Complex Anions: Fe(CN) 6 4- and CuBr 2 - in H 2 0....Pages 476-478
Femtosecond Studies of the Charge-Transfer-toSolvent Transition of the Sodium Anion in THF....Pages 479-481
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
(Sub)picosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Depolarization of OLED Compounds Alq 3 , Gaq 3 , and Inq 3 ....Pages 482-484
Investigation of the Ultrafast Dynamics of Charge Recombination of Ion Pairs Using Multiplex Transient Grating Spectroscopy....Pages 485-487
Ultrafast adiabatic elctron transfer cooperated with exciplex formation induced by strong interaction between donor and acceptor at short distances....Pages 488-490
Femtosecond multicolor pump-probe investigation of ultrafast electron transfer of (NH 3 ) 5 Ru III NCRu II (CN) 5 - in solution....Pages 491-493
Ultrafast Solvent-Induced Charge Localization in Tris-(2,2′ -Bipyridine) Ruthenium(II)....Pages 494-496
Front Matter....Pages 497-497
Structural Dynamics of Small Peptides by Time Dependent 2D-IR Spectroscopy....Pages 499-503
Frequency Resolved and Heterodyned Femtosecond Infrared Echoes of Pep tides; Multiple Pulse Coherent Vibrational Analogues ofNMR....Pages 504-506
Nonlinear two-dimensional IR spectroscopy of unfolding processes in ,β-peptides....Pages 507-509
Diffractive optics based 2-colour six wave mixing: heterodyne detection of the fifth-order Raman response of liquids....Pages 510-512
Polarized and magie angle fifth-order 2D electronieally non-resonant Raman scattering from CS 2 ....Pages 513-515
Separating the direct and cascaded contributions to two-dimensional Raman signals using phase-sensitive detection....Pages 516-518
Time dependent 2D Fourier transform spectra reveal femtosecond solvation dynamics....Pages 519-521
Two-dimensional time-resolved THz spectroscopy of solvent response to photo excitation....Pages 522-524
Front Matter....Pages 525-525
Ultrafast intermolecular transfer of vibrational excitations in liquid water....Pages 527-529
Time and frequency-Gated FID: a new approach to study the vibrational dephasing of water....Pages 530-532
Observation of the Bose Peak in NanometerSized Liquid Water Clusters using Terahertz Spectroscopy....Pages 533-535
Interaction of terawatt laser pulses with neat water....Pages 536-538
Picosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of Carboxylic Acid Dimers in Liquid Solution and Water-in-Oil Microemulsions....Pages 539-541
Ultrafast coherent response of hydrogen bonds....Pages 542-544
Phase-sensitive detection for polarizationselective femtosecond Raman spectroscopy....Pages 545-547
Front Matter....Pages 525-525
Studies of the Third and Fifth Order NonLinear Susceptibilities of Optical Materials using Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 548-550
Nuclear Dynamics in the Ground and Excited Electronic States for a Molecule in Liquid....Pages 551-553
Ultrafast Solute Vibrational Spectral Evolution During the Solvation Process....Pages 554-556
Separating Inertial and Diffusive Rotation and Solvation for a Nonpolar Solute....Pages 557-559
Solute Dependence of three pulse photon echo peak shift measurement....Pages 560-562
Ultrafast Dynamics in DNA....Pages 563-565
Femtosecond Photophysics of DNA and RNA Nucleosides in Aqueous Solution....Pages 566-568
Investigation of Coherent Dynamics in ChargeTransfer Reaction of Plastocyanin....Pages 569-571
Front Matter....Pages 573-573
Vibrational Dynamics in Molecules and Polymers Revealed by Sub-S-fs Real-time Spectroscopy....Pages 575-579
Early events in the photoexcitation of π-conjugated chains studied with sub-10-fs time resolution....Pages 580-582
Direct Probe of Spectrally Line-Narrowed Emission from Cooperative Optical State in π-conjugated Polymeric Thin Films....Pages 583-585
Mapping of Molecular Docking of Organic Cations on Negatively Charged Polymers by Picosecond Time Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy.....Pages 586-588
Direct observation of the ultrafast electron transfer process in a polymer/fullerene blend....Pages 589-591
The Controlled Coherent Excitation of Vibrational Modes in the Electronic Ground State of Polydiacetylenes....Pages 592-594
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Collective Electronic and Nuclear Modes in Conjugated Systems....Pages 595-597
Theoretical investigation of the excited states dynamics of the polydiacetylene backbone....Pages 598-600
Ultrafast Energy Relaxation Processes of Long Molecular Wires Based on Zinc(II)porphyrins....Pages 601-603
Dynamic intensity borrowing in porphyrin Jaggregates revealed by sub-5-fs spectroscopy....Pages 604-606
Wavepacket motion of self-trapped exciton under excitation by femtosecond chirped pulses in one dimensional metal dimethylglyoxime complex....Pages 607-609
Energy funneling in the dendrimeric nanostar probed by time-resolved nonlinear spectroscopies....Pages 610-612
Front Matter....Pages 573-573
Ultrafast Investigations of Intra-molecular Interactions and Energy Transfer in Dendrimers and Polymeric Materials....Pages 613-615
Systematic Fluorescence Up conversion Investigation of Intramolecular Processes in Peryleneimide Dendrimers containing One to Four Chromophores....Pages 616-618
Front Matter....Pages 619-619
Experimental and theoretical study of chirped pulse excitation....Pages 621-623
Probing CTTS Dynamics ofNa - in THF: Novel Relaxation and Polarization Effects....Pages 624-626
The Ultrafast Dissociation Dynamics of Iodine Embedded in Microporous Crystalline Porosils of Different Structure....Pages 627-629
Ultrafast dynamics in CIO 2 and CIO 2 (H 2 0)n excited at 398nm....Pages 630-632
Vibrational Mode-Specific Ultrafast Photodissociation Dynamics of Chlorine Dioxide in Solution....Pages 633-635
Ultrafast Infrared Studies of Ligand Rearrangement at Coordinatively Unsaturated Transition Metal Centers....Pages 636-638
Ultrafast Fragmentation dynamics of the dicarbonyl(cyclopentadienyl)iron halides....Pages 639-641
Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Dynamics....Pages 642-644
Does the proton move during ultrafast excited state intramolecular proton transfer?....Pages 645-647
Direct Observation of Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics in Condensed Phase Photochemistry and Photobiology.....Pages 648-650
Front Matter....Pages 651-651
Disorder in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes: A Three-Pulse Photon Echo Peak Shift Study of the B800 band of the LH2 complex....Pages 653-655
Highly unusual growing-in of coherence and strong oscillations in the bacterial FMO antenna complexes, observed in photon echo kinetics....Pages 656-658
Time-Dependent Exciton Delocalization Size in the B850 Band of Purple Bacterial LH2....Pages 659-661
The Kinetics of Primary Electron Transfer steps in PS I Reaction Centers....Pages 662-664
Ultrafast charge separation in the plant photosystem I reaction center....Pages 665-667
Direct observation of the S 1 level of the carotenoid spheroidene using near-infrared femtosecond spectroscopy....Pages 668-670
Fs-transient Absorption and Fluorescence Upconversion after Two-Photon Excitation of Carotenoids in Solution and in LHC II....Pages 671-673
Quantitative modeling of ultrafast energy transfer dynamics in the photosynthetic apparatus....Pages 674-676
Front Matter....Pages 651-651
Primary Reactions of Sensory Rhodopsins: Two Proteins with Vastly Different Dynamics....Pages 677-679
Femtosecond Spectroscopy and model calculations for an understanding of the primary reaction in bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 680-682
Resolving the primary dynamics of bacteriorhodopsin, and Locked analogs in the reactive excited state.....Pages 683-685
Coherent infrared emission from Myoglobin crystals....Pages 686-688
Femtosecond fluorescence dynamics of porphyrins; internal conversion, energy relaxation, and quantum beats....Pages 689-691
Femtosecond Pump-Probe Studies of Radiationless Decay Dynamics in Arthropod and Mollusc Hemocyanins....Pages 692-694
Initial Conformational Dynamics in Cyclic AzobenzenePeptides....Pages 695-697
Back Matter....Pages 699-706