Ultrafast Phenomena XV: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference, Pacific Grove, USA, July 30 – August 4, 2006

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sub 100 attosecond XUV pulses....Pages 3-5
Quasi phase matching of high harmonic generation in waveguides using counter-propagating beams....Pages 6-8
Observation of Intra-molecular Vibrational Dynamics using High-Harmonic Generation as a Probe....Pages 9-11
Ultrafast Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Si with 20fs Resolution Using HH Radiation....Pages 12-14
Enhanced High Harmonic Generation from Ions using a Capillary Discharge....Pages 15-17
Tunable isolated attosecond pulses....Pages 18-20
Measurement and control of attosecond pulse formation....Pages 21-23
Continuum Harmonic Radiation in the Extreme Ultraviolet Region Using Synthesized Sub-10-fs Two-Color Field....Pages 24-26
Basis for ultrafast imaging of molecular orbitals with high-order harmonic generation....Pages 27-29
Adaptive Spatial Control of High-Harmonic Generation....Pages 30-32
A proposed tabletop atto-second pulse coherent X-ray source....Pages 33-35
Attosecond pulse production and orbital tomography with orthogonally polarized two-color few-cycle pulses....Pages 36-38
Isolated EUV Pulses via CEP-insensitive Nonlinear Stabilization in a Waveguide....Pages 39-41
Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Holography: Dynamic Monitoring of Surface Deformation....Pages 42-44
Femtosecond VUV Photon Pulses for Time-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 45-47
Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect on Pt(111)....Pages 48-50
Is high harmonic generation a single-active-electron process?....Pages 51-53
Multi-Cycle Driven Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation....Pages 54-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Generation of 2 Terawatt Sub-8 fs Laser Pulses using Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification....Pages 59-61
Holographic Snapshots of Laser Wakefields....Pages 62-64
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Phase-Mask Control and Stabilization of Optical Filamentation....Pages 65-67
Development of a Multi-Terawatt Ultrabroadband Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier....Pages 68-70
High energy self-phase-stabilized pulses by difference frequency generation and optical parametric amplification....Pages 71-73
5.1 fs pulses by filamentation — future prospective of self-compression to one optical cycle....Pages 74-76
Interfering Lasing Filaments in Dense Absorbing Media....Pages 77-79
Non-relativistic Magnetic Continuum Generation....Pages 80-82
Mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser with dispersion compensation by a fiber taper....Pages 83-85
Soliton-effect pulse compression of supercontinuum in photonic nanowires....Pages 86-88
eXtreme Chirped Pulse Amplification using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers....Pages 89-91
Direct Comparison of the Hollow-core Fiber and Filamentation Techniques for Few-cycle Pulse Generation....Pages 92-94
Grism based stretcher/compressor system for amplified, femtosecond kilohertz lasers....Pages 95-97
High Power Femtosecond IR Laser Source based on Noncollinear Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification....Pages 98-100
Generation of high-fidelity sub-10-fs milIijoule pulses through filamentation for relativistic laser-matter experiments at 1 kHz....Pages 101-103
MHz-rate white light generation using a novel positive-dispersion cavity-dumped Ti: sapphire laser....Pages 104-106
High Spectral Irradiance White-Light Continuum Z-scan....Pages 107-109
Generation of 460nm femtosecond laser by sum frequency synchronized picosecond Nd:YVO 4 laser and femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser....Pages 110-112
Generation of Sub-3-fs Optical Pulses Using Induced Phase Modulation in an Ar-Gas-Filled Hollow Fiber....Pages 113-115
Multi-wavelength Erbium-doped Fiber Lasers on the Assistance of High-nonlinear Photonic-crystal Fibers....Pages 116-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Femtosecond enhancement cavity — direct frequency comb spectroscopy and coherent extreme nonlinear optics....Pages 121-123
Spectral Line-by-Line Pulse Shaping of a Mode-Locked Laser and a Phase Modulated CW Laser....Pages 124-126
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Mapping of the Optical Frequency Comb to the Atom Velocity Comb....Pages 127-129
Demonstration of Frequency Comb Laser Spectroscopy in the Vacuum-Ultraviolet....Pages 130-132
Determination of the CEO Phase — ionization of He with Circularly polarized 5.5-fs Pulses....Pages 133-135
Direct distinction between phase shift and time delay with carrier-envelope phase-controlled pulses....Pages 136-138
Spectral Dependence of Phase Noise of Stabilized Optical Frequency Combs....Pages 139-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Shaped UV Pulses with 20 fs Substructures....Pages 145-147
Direct UV-AOPDF ultrafast laser pulse shaping....Pages 148-150
Acousto-optic shaping of femtosecond pulses directly in the mid-IR....Pages 151-153
Measurement of the Complete Electric Field of an Ultrashort Laser Pulse from a Single-Exposure Digital Hologram....Pages 154-156
Ultrasensitive Second-Harmonic Generation Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating Using a Fiber-Pigtailed Aperiodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide at 1.55 µ m....Pages 157-159
Two-dimensional spectral shearing interferometry for few-cycle pulse characterization and optimization....Pages 160-162
Chirped mirrors without dispersion oscillations by Brewster’s angle incidence....Pages 163-165
Pulse Polarization Splitting with Propagation through an Ultrafast Transient Waveplate....Pages 166-168
Design and Fabrication of Efficient Reflection Grisms for Pulse Compression and Dispersion Compensation....Pages 169-171
A Novel Fast-mixing Microfluidic Device for Studying Nonequilibrium Systems using Femtosecond Spectroscopies....Pages 172-174
20-fps motion capture of phase-controlled wave-packets for adaptive quantum control....Pages 175-177
Detection of Ultrafast Infrared Electric Fields by Chirped-Pulse Upconversion....Pages 178-180
Enhancement of two-photon excited fluorescence by sub-micron photonic jets....Pages 181-183
Spatiotemporal femtosecond pulse shaping using a MEMS-based micromirror SLM....Pages 184-186
Secure Communications over a Public Network using Ultrafast Optical Technology....Pages 187-189
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Amplitude and Phase Shaping of Ultra-broad-bandwidth Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 190-192
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy analysis of Bacteria: What Femtosecond Lasers Make Possible....Pages 193-195
Spatially Resolved Spectral Interferometry....Pages 196-198
Measurement of pressure dependent dispersion of femtosecond pulses in air down to 0.01 mbar....Pages 199-201
Gradient- and vortex-shaped fs pulses in air....Pages 202-204
The General Theory of the First-Order Spatio-Temporal Couplings of Gaussian Pulses and Beams....Pages 205-207
Coherent control of two photon fluorescence with a high-resolution spectral phase shaper....Pages 208-210
Control of Third-Order Dispersion of Ultrashort Laser Pulses....Pages 211-213
Ultrasimple extremely broadband transient-grating frequency-resolved-optical-gating device....Pages 214-216
Phase-sensitive resonance in scattering of continuous waves on femtosecond solitons in photonic crystal fibers....Pages 217-219
Distortion of ultrashort pulses caused by aberrations....Pages 220-222
All-Fiber Temporal Differentiator for Sub-picosecond Optical Waveforms....Pages 223-225
Quantum Control of Two-Photon Fluorescence in Solution....Pages 226-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Ultrafast spectroscopy of single molecules....Pages 231-233
Observation of Raman-Induced Nuclear Wavepacket Motion in S 1 cis -Stilbene: Adiabatic Change of a Potential Curvature and Anharmonicity of Multidimensional Potential....Pages 234-236
Femtosecond laser-assisted catalytic surface reactions of syngas and their optimization by tailored laser pulses....Pages 237-239
Vibrational spectroscopy of nonlinear excitations via excited-state resonant impulsive Raman spectroscopy....Pages 240-242
Two-Color Electric Field Resolved Transient Grating Spectroscopy of an Oligophenylenevinylene Dimer....Pages 243-245
Dissociative Wave Packets in Large Molecules: Control and Measurement....Pages 246-248
Control of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene Ring-Opening....Pages 249-251
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Coherent Infrared Pulse Sequences for Probing Molecular Chirality....Pages 252-254
Robust Basis Functions for Control from Dimension Reduction of Adaptive Pulse-Shaping Experiments....Pages 255-257
Control strategies for molecular switches in donor-bridge-acceptor systems....Pages 258-260
Ultrafast Chelation Dynamics of Model Photoswitches: Cyclopentadienyl Manganese and Arene Chromium Tricarbonyl Derivatives with Pendant Sulfides....Pages 261-263
A Femtosecond IR and Raman Look on a Nucleophilic Addition in the Electronic Ground State....Pages 264-266
Electron transfer and triplet state formation in merocyanine/TiO 2 systems....Pages 267-269
Dynamics of electron injection from the excited state of anchored molecules into semiconductors....Pages 270-272
Ultrafast Dynamics of Fe(II) Polypyridyl Chromophores: Design Implications for Dye-Sensitized Photovoltaics....Pages 273-275
Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in C 6 F 6 /Cu(111) after Localized or Delocalized Excitation....Pages 276-278
Chirped molecular vibration after impulsive Raman excitation in a stilbene derivative molecule in solution....Pages 279-281
Control of molecular fragmentation using binary phase shaped femtosecond laser pulses....Pages 282-284
Accumulative quantum control of photochemical reactions....Pages 285-287
Adiabatic Passage in the Presence of Excited-State Absorption and Two-Exciton Processes....Pages 288-290
Ultrafast Photochromism: Structural and Electronic Dynamics of Indolyl Fulgimides....Pages 291-293
Photo-excitation dynamics of malachite green in ionic liquids studied by the transient grating method....Pages 294-296
Fifth-order Raman spectroscopy: Liquid benzene....Pages 297-299
Dynamics of One-dimensional Exciton in Porphyrin J Aggregates by sub-5fs Transient Absorption Experiment....Pages 300-302
Enhancement of Raman Modes in Complex Molecules by Coherent Control....Pages 303-305
Energy Transport Mechanisms in Doped Organic Films....Pages 306-308
Electron Transfer in Triarylmethane Lactones: From the sub-100 fs Regime to Solvent Control....Pages 309-311
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Pulse shape control of population transfer in LDS750.....Pages 312-314
Real-time Investigation of Elementary Steps for Photo-induced Phase Transition in a Model Dimer....Pages 315-317
Intermolecular communication and a vibrationally adiabatic basis treatment of small-molecule dynamics in low temperature solids....Pages 318-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Ultrafast Chemical Exchange 2D IR Spectroscopy....Pages 323-325
Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy of Multi-chromophore Protein Complexes....Pages 326-328
Multidimensional Population “Echo” Distinguishes Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Dynamics....Pages 329-331
Observation of kinetic networks of hydrogen-bond exchange using 2D IR echo spectroscopy....Pages 332-334
2D-IR Photon Echo Spectroscopy of Liquid H 2 O — Combination of Novel Nanofluidics and Diffractive Optics Deciphers Ultrafast Structural Dynamics....Pages 335-337
Propagation, beam geometry, and detection distortions of peak shapes in two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy....Pages 338-340
2D IR Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Bond Switching in Liquid Water....Pages 341-343
Relaxation-Assisted 2D IR Using Weak Vibrational Modes....Pages 344-346
Different Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectral Signatures for 3 10 - and α -Helix Octapeptides....Pages 347-349
Multidimensional IR Spectroscopy of Site-Specific Hairpin Folding....Pages 350-352
Single-Shot Time Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 353-355
Two-Dimensional Optical Correlation Spectroscopy Applied to Liquid/Glass Dynamics....Pages 356-358
2D optical spectroscopy of a conjugated polymer with tuneable visible 15 fs-pulses from a 200 kHz NOPA....Pages 359-361
Direct Probing of the Local Solvent Response During Intermolecular Electron Transfer....Pages 362-364
Femtosecond Multidimensional Imaging - Watching Chemistry from the Molecule’s Point of View....Pages 365-367
Polarized Optical Two-dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductors....Pages 368-370
Coherently Controlled Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy....Pages 371-373
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Transient 2D-IR spectroscopy of Thiopeptides....Pages 374-376
Nonequilibrium 2D-IR Exchange Spectroscopy: Ligand Migration in Proteins....Pages 377-379
Lineshapes and Correlations in Two Dimensional Vibrational Signals of NMA....Pages 380-382
Manipulating Multidimensional Nonlinear Spectra of Excitons by Coherent Control with Polarization Pulse Shaping....Pages 383-385
Well-Resolved Coherent Raman Spectra from Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 386-388
Multidimensional Anisostropic Spectroscopy for The Study of Intramolecular Charge Transfer....Pages 389-391
Two Dimensional Fourier Transform Electronic Spectroscopy: Evolution of Cross Peaks in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex....Pages 392-394
Dispersion Relations in Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy....Pages 395-397
Multidimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of a Peptide NH···O Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond....Pages 398-400
Signatures of Chemical Exchange in 2D Vibrational Spectroscopy; Simulations Based on the Stochastic Liouville Equations....Pages 401-403
Femtosecond 3D IR spectroscopy....Pages 404-406
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of HOD in Liquid to Supercritical Heavy Water....Pages 409-411
Ultrafast Aqueous Bimolecular Acid-Base Proton Transfer: from Direct Exchange to Sequential Hopping....Pages 412-414
On the role of water in intermolecular proton transfer reactions....Pages 415-417
Picosecond Temperature and Pressure Changes in H-bonded Systems....Pages 418-420
Multicolor IR Spectroscopy of Pure Liquid Water....Pages 421-423
Towards a Molecular Movie: Real Time Observation of Hydrogen Bond Breaking by Transient 2D-IR Spectroscopy in a Cyclic Peptide....Pages 424-426
An experimental and numerical study of hydrogen-bonding in aqueous salts and methanol....Pages 427-429
Structural Dynamics of Rotaxanes Studied by Infrared Photon Echo Spectroscopy....Pages 430-432
Ultrafast Superheating of Ice....Pages 433-435
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics of O-H Bending and Librational Excitations in Liquid H 2 O....Pages 436-438
Ultrafast Intramolecular Energy Transfer in Water....Pages 439-441
Understanding the Building Blocks of Life — Evidence of Hydrogen-Bonded Aggregation of N-Methylacetamide....Pages 442-444
Anharmonic Bend-Stretch Coupling in Water....Pages 445-447
Mode-selective O-H stretching relaxation in a hydrogen bond studied by ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy....Pages 448-450
Front Matter....Pages 451-451
Ultrafast Polarization-Sensitive Infrared Spectroscopy of Photoactive Yellow Protein and Model Compounds....Pages 453-455
What determines the success of isomerization of the Photoactive Yellow Protein chromophore? — A picosecond pump-probe study in the midIR....Pages 456-458
Femtosecond Pump — Shaped Dump — Probe Control of Retinal in Bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 459-461
Experimental Coherent Control of Retinal Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 462-464
THz Radiation from Light-induced Electron and Proton Motion in Bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 465-467
Ultrafast Photoreactions in the Green Fluorescent Protein Studied Through Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy....Pages 468-470
Ultrafast Energy and Electron Transfer in Photosystem I - Direct Evidence for two-branched Electron Transfer....Pages 471-473
Decomposing the Excited State Dynamics of Carotenoids in Light Harvesting Complexes and Dissecting Pulse Structures from Optimal Control Experiments....Pages 474-476
Energy Transport in a Peptide Helix....Pages 477-479
Ultrafast Energy Transfer in the Soret Band of Linear Porphyrin Arrays....Pages 480-482
Multiphoton quantum control spectroscopy of β-carotene....Pages 483-485
Direct Observation of Ultrafast Dynamics in DNA Bases....Pages 486-488
Following photoinduced dynamics in bacteriorhodopsin with 7 fsec impulsive vibrational spectroscopy....Pages 489-491
Real-time observation of carbon double bond transformation during photo-isomerization of bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 492-494
Ultrafast conformational changes in carboxymyoglobin studied by time-resolved circular dichroism....Pages 495-497
Front Matter....Pages 451-451
Ultrafast Unzipping of a Beta-Hairpin Peptide....Pages 498-500
Molecular Basis of Nonphotochemical Quenching; The Role of the Major Light Harvesting Complex II....Pages 501-503
Direct observation of the ‘lubricant of life’ using ultrafast spectroscopies....Pages 504-506
Mechanism of Radical Transfer During Photoactivation of the flavoprotein DNA Photolyase....Pages 507-509
Relaxation Paths and Dynamics of β-apo-8′-carotenal: An Ultrafast Electronic and Vibrational Study....Pages 510-512
Slow Fluorescence and Fast Intersystem Crossing — The Xanthone Anomaly....Pages 513-515
Ultrafast Relaxation of the S 2 Excited State in β-Carotene and its Homologs: A Role of Intermediate States....Pages 516-518
Resonance Hyper-Raman Spectroscopy of Organic Nonlinear Optical Chromophores....Pages 519-521
Thymine Dimer Formation probed by Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy....Pages 522-524
Primary Reaction of Sensory Rhodopsin II Mutant D75N....Pages 525-527
Carotenoid Excited State Kinetics in Bacterial RCs with the Primary Electron Donor Oxidized....Pages 528-530
Ligand Interconversion Dynamics in the Primary Docking Site of Myoglobin in Various Solvents....Pages 531-533
Time- and Frequency-resolved Two-dimensional Transient Absorption Imaging of β-Carotene in Solids....Pages 534-536
Determination of Electronic Mixing in Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria by Two-Color Three Pulse Photon Echo Peak Shift....Pages 537-539
Ultrafast Charge Transfer Dynamics of a Modified Double Helical DNA....Pages 540-542
A New Class of Ultrafast Photoswitchable Chromopeptides....Pages 543-545
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Three-Pulse Photon Echo in a Dense Potassium Vapor....Pages 549-551
Coherent Population Control of Rydberg Atom by Adiabatic Rapid Passage....Pages 552-554
Ultrafast dynamics of autoionization in O 2 probed by laser-field-assisted XUV photoionization....Pages 555-557
Control of Dissociative Ionization of Ethanol Molecule by Cascaded Double Ultrashort Laser Pulse Excitation....Pages 558-560
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Time-resolved Imaging of H 2 + (D 2 + ) Nuclear Wave Packets....Pages 561-563
Slowing down molecular dissociation in strong laser fields....Pages 564-566
Investigation of Coriolis Perturbations on the ro-vibrational v 1 Band of H 2 CO with fs-CARS....Pages 567-569
Rotational wave packet dynamics correlated to ultrafast non-time-stationary linear and nonlinear optical susceptibilities....Pages 570-572
Ac Stark-Mediated Quantum Control with Two-Color Pulses in Two- and Three-Level Systems....Pages 573-575
Molecular Orientation via Molecular Anti-Alignment....Pages 576-578
Optimal control of molecular alignment with the feedback of ion images....Pages 579-581
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
Evidence for Superfluorescent Recombination from Dense Magneto-plasmas....Pages 585-587
Insulator-to-Metal Transition Induced by Mid-IR Vibrational Excitation in a Magnetoresistive Manganite....Pages 588-590
Ultrafast coherent dynamics of the quantum Hall system....Pages 591-593
Dynamics of Photoexcited Carriers in Heavy-electron Systems....Pages 594-596
Energy relaxation and anomalies in the thermo-acoustic response of femtosecond laser-excited Germanium....Pages 597-599
Enhanced photosusceptibility in the insulator-to-metal phase transition in vanadium dioxide....Pages 600-602
Ultrafast Dynamics of the Itinerant Antiferromagnet UNiGa 5 ....Pages 603-605
Ultrafast Fano dynamics of quasiparticles in a semiconductor....Pages 606-608
Unique Behavior of Lattice Modulation Phase Induced by Ligand Motion of a Mixed-Valence Metal-Halogen Complex....Pages 609-611
Ultrafast Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Solids....Pages 612-614
Femtosecond Dynamics of Fano-resonance in Zn....Pages 615-617
Coherent Phonons in the Zone Boundary Region of Solid Ar Doped with Cl 2 ....Pages 618-620
Ultrafast gigantic photo-response in (EDO-TTF) 2 PF 6 initiated by 10-fs laser pulses....Pages 621-623
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
Femtosecond Dynamics of Coherent Optical Phonons in Graphite....Pages 624-626
Subpicosecond Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Carrier Transfer in AlGaN Using Difference-Frequency Generation....Pages 627-629
Front Matter....Pages 631-631
Adaptive Control of Nanoscopic Photoelectron Emission....Pages 633-635
Femtosecond Microscopy of Surface Plasmon Propagation in a Silver Film....Pages 636-638
Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities of Single Metal Nanoparticles....Pages 639-641
Dynamical Electric Metamaterial Response at Terahertz Frequencies....Pages 642-644
Nanolocalized Nonlinear Photoprocesses under Coherent Control....Pages 645-647
Properties of Two-Photon Induced Emission from Dendritic Silver Nanoclusters....Pages 648-650
Ultrafast Dynamics of Polarization induced at Surface Plasmon Resonances in a One Dimensional Metallic Plasmonic Crystal....Pages 651-653
Landau Damping of Coherent Plasmons....Pages 654-656
Front Matter....Pages 657-657
Polarization Dependence of Nanostructure Formation in Transparent Solids....Pages 659-661
Time resolved magneto-optical microscopy of individual ferromagnetic dots....Pages 662-664
Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of a Single Self-Assembled InGaAs Quantum Dot....Pages 665-667
Microscopic Many-Body Analysis of Ultrafast Photocurrents in Semiconductor Nanostructures....Pages 668-670
Intraband Spectroscopy of GaSe Nanoparticles and InSe/GaSe Nanoparticle Heterojunctions....Pages 671-673
Observation of the Optical Stark Effect in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 674-676
Nonlinear Optical Approach to Multiexciton Relaxation Dynamics in Quantum Dots....Pages 677-679
Memory and Nanostructure Formation in the Intense Field Ionization of Fused Silica....Pages 680-682
Auger Recombination of Excitons in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 683-685
Probing Exciton Dynamics of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Photon Echo Spectroscopy....Pages 686-688
Front Matter....Pages 657-657
Modeling of the Extreme Nonlinear Optical Response of Semiconductor Nanostructures....Pages 689-691
Dephasing of Inter-Landau level Raman Coherences in GaAs quantum wells....Pages 692-694
Real time observation of non-linear coherent phonon dynamics in semiconducting single wall carbon nanotubes....Pages 695-697
Ultrafast Interfacial Carrier Dynamics in UV-Blue Photoluminescing ZnSe Nanoparticles....Pages 698-700
Selective measurement of ultrafast exciton spin relaxation in quantum dots....Pages 701-703
Front Matter....Pages 705-705
Direct Observation of Electron Dynamics at Surfaces using X-ray Spectroscopy....Pages 707-709
Carrier Dependent Stability of a Semiconductor Lattice Measured with Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction....Pages 710-712
Probing strain propagation in nanolayered perovskites by diffraction of femtosecond x-rays....Pages 713-715
Lattice Motions from THz phonon polaritons measured with Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction....Pages 716-718
Ultrafast XAFS of transition metal complexes....Pages 719-721
Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Photochemical Transient Species in Solution....Pages 722-724
Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction on DIABN Single Crystals....Pages 725-727
Imaging Plume Dynamics with Ultrafast Hard X-rays....Pages 728-730
Ultrafast X-ray diffraction and Optical Reflection Measurements of Coherent Optical Phonons of CdTe....Pages 731-733
DNA Strand Breaks by a Laser-Driven Electron X-ray Source (LEXS)....Pages 734-736
High intensity XUV-FEL interaction with solids: first experimental results....Pages 737-739
Front Matter....Pages 741-741
A Nanometer-sized Femtosecond Electron Source at 80 MHz Repetition Rate....Pages 743-745
A spatially and temporally localized sub-laser cycle electron source....Pages 746-748
Time Resolved Photoemission of an Insulator-Metal Transition....Pages 749-751
Electronic Thermal Expansion and the Coherent Acoustic Phonons Generation....Pages 752-754
Front Matter....Pages 741-741
Femtosecond Electron Diffraction Study on the Heating and Melting Dynamics of Gold....Pages 755-757
Characterization of ultrashort electron pulses....Pages 758-760
Front Matter....Pages 761-761
A compact radially polarized THz source based on velocity-mismatched optical rectification....Pages 763-765
Carrier Dynamics in ZnO Nanowires and Films Measured by Time-Resolved THz Spectroscopy....Pages 766-768
Stimulated Terahertz Emission from Excitons in Cu 2 O....Pages 769-771
Terahertz nonlinear response in lithium niobate....Pages 772-774
Spatio-Temporal Properties of Single-Cycle THz Pulses Generated by Relativistic Electron Beams in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator....Pages 775-777
Terahertz Emission from Nano-structured Metal Surfaces....Pages 778-780
High power compact THz system based on ultrafast Yb-doped parabolic fiber amplifier....Pages 781-783
Phonon-Polariton Excitation in Ferroelectric Slab Waveguides and Photonic Crystals....Pages 784-786
Using of 2D PPLN Crystal for Surface-Emitted THz-Wave Generation by Optical Rectification of Laser Pulses....Pages 787-789
Dynamical Properties of Terahertz Radiation from Coherent Longitudinal Optical Phonons Confined in a GaAs/AlAs Multiple Quantum Well....Pages 790-792
Characterization of Magnetization Dynamics using Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy....Pages 793-795
Single-shot, High-resolution, THz Field Reconstruction using Phase-retrieval....Pages 796-798
Nonlinear THz Spectroscopy of n -Type GaAs....Pages 799-801
Terahertz amplification in high-dielectric materials....Pages 802-804
Front Matter....Pages 805-805
Tissue imaging with shaped femtosecond laser pulses....Pages 807-809
Selective Two-Photon Imaging of a Biological Sample....Pages 810-812
Time-resolved Single-beam CARS with Shaped Supercontinuum from a Photonic Crystal Fiber....Pages 813-815
Optical Coherence Microscopy and Cellular Imaging....Pages 816-818
Front Matter....Pages 805-805
Novel applicatipns of broadband excitation to multiphoton microscopy....Pages 819-821
 In-vivo multi-nonlinear optical imaging of a living cell using a single femtosecond Ti:Sapphire oscillator....Pages 822-824
Optically Active Sum Frequency Generation Microscopy for Cellular Imaging....Pages 825-827
Two-photon Bio-imaging with a Mode-locked Semiconductor Laser....Pages 828-830
Back Matter....Pages 831-842