Ultrafast Phenomena XVI: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference, Palazzo dei Congressi Stresa, Italy, June 9--13, 2008

Front Matter....Pages 1-29
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sub-100-as soft x-ray pulses....Pages 3-5
Generation of High-order Harmonics with a Near-IR Self-phase-stabilized Parametric Source....Pages 6-8
Quasi-Phase-Matched High-Order Harmonic Generation in the Soft-X-ray Regime....Pages 9-11
Phase Matching and Quasi-Phase Matching of Extreme High-Order Harmonic Generation....Pages 12-14
Comparison of Parallel and Perpendicular Polarized Counterpropagating Light for Quasi-Phase-Matching High Harmonic Generation....Pages 15-17
Enhanced Harmonic Generation in Gas Jets with Expanding Clusters....Pages 18-20
Observation of Elliptically Polarized High Harmonic Emission from Molecules Driven by Linearly Polarized Light....Pages 21-23
Polarization-Resolved Pump-Probe Spectroscopy with High Order Harmonics....Pages 24-26
Study of quantum-path interferences in the high harmonic generation process....Pages 27-29
Interference Patterns in the Wavelength Dependence of High-Harmonic Generation....Pages 30-32
Generation of Polarization-Shaped Ultraviolet Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 33-35
All-Optical Quasi-Phase Matching and Quantum Path Selection of High-Order Harmonic Generation at 140 eV Using Counterpropagating Light....Pages 36-38
Ultrafast Molecular and Materials Dynamics probed by Coherent X-Rays....Pages 39-41
Plasma-Blue-Shift Spectral Shear Interferometry for Characterization of Ultimately short Optical Pulses....Pages 42-44
Spatially resolved Ar * and Ar+ * imaging as a diagnostic for capillary based high harmonic generation....Pages 45-47
Internal Momentum State Mapping using High Harmonic Radiation....Pages 48-50
Attosecond control of electron localization in one- and two-color dissociative ionization of H 2 and D 2 ....Pages 51-53
Simultaneous Description of Electron and Nuclear Dynamics: A Quantum Approach for Multi-Electron Systems....Pages 54-56
Attosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Electron Tunneling in Dissociating Hydrogen Molecular Ion....Pages 57-59
Attosecond angular streaking: an ideal technique to measure an electron tunneling time?....Pages 60-62
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Probing Dynamics in Polyatomic Molecules Using High Harmonic Generation: the Role of Ionization Continua....Pages 63-65
High harmonic generation from multiple molecular orbitals of N 2 ....Pages 66-68
Ultrafast Multiphoton Crystallography....Pages 69-71
Direct Measurement of Angle-Dependent Single Photon Ionization of N 2 and CO 2 ....Pages 72-74
Field-free unidirectional molecular rotation....Pages 75-77
Attosecond coincidence spectroscopy of diatomic molecules....Pages 78-80
Real-time Evolution of the Valence Orbitals in a Dissociating Molecule as Revealed by Femtosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 81-83
Transient Waveguiding in a Rotationally Excited Molecular Gas....Pages 84-86
Molecular Recollision Interferometry in High Harmonic Generation....Pages 87-89
Multi-Electron Dynamics in Molecular High Harmonic Generation....Pages 90-92
Probing the dynamics of plasma mirrors on the attosecond time scale....Pages 93-95
Shaping Entangled Photon Pairs....Pages 96-98
Front Matter....Pages 100-100
Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Polar Solids Studied by Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 101-103
Atomic Motion in Laser Excited Bismuth Studied with Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 104-106
Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction Study of the Ultrafast Coupling between Magnetization and Structure in the Ferromagnet SrRuO 3 ....Pages 107-109
Electron-Phonon Energy Transfer in Bismuth Observed by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction....Pages 110-112
Atomic View of the Photoinduced Collapse of Gold and Bismuth....Pages 113-115
Four-dimensional Visualization of Transitional Structures in Phase Transformations by Electron Diffraction....Pages 116-118
Ultrashort soft x-ray pulses from a femtosecond slicing source for time-resolved laser pump- x-ray probe experiments....Pages 119-121
Femtosecond X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of a Photoinduced Spin-Crossover Process....Pages 122-124
Front Matter....Pages 100-100
Probing Reaction Dynamics of Transition-Metal Complexes in Solution via Time-Resolved Soft X-ray Spectroscopy....Pages 125-127
Sub-20-fs Optical Pump-X-ray Probe Spectroscopy beyond the Si K Edge....Pages 128-130
Capturing Transient Solute Structures in Solution by Pulsed X-ray Diffraction....Pages 131-133
Structural kinetics in protein-coated gold nanoparticles probed by time-resolved x-ray scattering....Pages 134-136
X-ray induced transient optical reflectivity for fs-X-ray/optical cross-correlation at Free-Electron Lasers....Pages 137-139
Autocorrelation Experiments with Soft X-ray FEL Pulses....Pages 140-142
Ultrafast coherent X-ray diffractive imaging with the FLASH Free-Electron Laser....Pages 143-145
Lensless Microscopy and Holography with 60 nm Resolution using Tabletop Coherent Soft X-Rays....Pages 146-148
Nanoscale Heat Transport Probed with Ultrafast Soft X-Rays....Pages 149-151
Relativistic attosecond electron pulses from cascaded acceleration using ultra-intense radially polarized laser beams....Pages 152-154
Attosecond Free Electron Pulses for Diffraction and Microscopy....Pages 155-157
Electronically Driven Structural Dynamics of Si Resolved by Femtosecond Electron Diffraction....Pages 158-160
Picosecond electron deflectometry of optical-field ionized plasmas....Pages 161-163
Front Matter....Pages 166-166
Clocking the Collapse of a Mott Gap....Pages 167-169
Coherent Orbital Waves in Manganites....Pages 170-172
Ultrafast terahertz response driven by photoinduced insulator to metal transition in layered organic salt....Pages 173-175
Photo-induced macroscopic oscillation between insulator and metal in layered organic Mott insulator....Pages 176-178
THz Slow Motion of an Ultrafast Insulator-Metal Transition in VO 2 : Coherent Structural Dynamics and Electronic Correlations....Pages 179-181
Nonthermal Melting of Orbital Order in La 1/2 Sr 3/2 MnO 4 by Coherent Excitation of a Mn-O Stretching Mode....Pages 182-184
Ultrafast Gigantic Photo-Response in Charge-Ordered Organic Salt (EDO-TTF) 2 PF 6 on 10-fs time scales....Pages 185-187
Front Matter....Pages 166-166
Teasing a Quasiparticle: Ultrafast Nonlinear Response of the Fröhlich Polaron in GaAs....Pages 188-190
Time-resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Photoinduced Insulator-Metal Transition in a Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganite....Pages 191-193
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy on the fs Time Scale: Ultrafast Electron and Spin Dynamics in Nickel....Pages 194-196
Ultrafast Photoinduced Ferromagnetic Order in a Magnetic Semiconductor Heterostructure....Pages 197-199
Non-equilibrium spin-dynamics of Gd(0001) studied by time-resolved SHG and magnetic linear dichroism in 4f core-level photoemission....Pages 200-202
Ultrafast Spin Control by Charge-separated States in Colloidal ZnO Quantum Dots....Pages 203-205
Ultrafast electronic and spin dynamics in thin iron films: electron-magnon and electron-phonon interactions....Pages 206-208
Laser Induced Alignment of Water Spin Isomers....Pages 209-211
Memory Effects in Photo-induced Femtosecond Magnetization Rotation in a Ferromagnetic Semiconductor....Pages 212-214
Front Matter....Pages 216-216
Transient Dielectric Function of Fs-Laser Excited Bismuth....Pages 217-219
Coherent A 1g and E g Phonons of Antimony....Pages 220-222
Mode selective Excitation of Coherent Phonons in Bismuth by Femotosecond Pulse Pair....Pages 223-225
Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron-Hole Plasma Coupled to Optical Phonons in a ZnO Thin Film....Pages 226-228
Large-amplitude coherent phonons in semimetals....Pages 229-231
Laser-Induced Undoing of a Peierls Distortion....Pages 232-234
Ultrafast dynamics of coherent optical phonons in α-quartz....Pages 235-237
Influence of Lattice Heating Time on Strain Wave Dynamics in InSb....Pages 238-240
Soft X-Ray Thomson Scattering in Warm Dense Matter at FLASH....Pages 241-243
Magnon-Enhanced Phonon Damping at Gd(0001) and Tb(0001) surfaces....Pages 244-246
Ultrafast Coherent Interactions in Quantum Wells Studied by Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy....Pages 247-249
Front Matter....Pages 216-216
Two-quantum Two-dimensional Fourier Transform Electronic Spectroscopy of Biexcitons in GaAs Quantum Wells....Pages 250-252
Three-Pulse Echo Peak Shift Spectroscopy of Disordered Semiconductor Quantum Wells and Dense Atomic Vapors....Pages 253-255
Coherently controlled ballistic charge currents in unbiased bulk silicon and single-walled carbon nanotubes....Pages 256-258
Ultrafast dynamics of coherent phonons in the aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes....Pages 259-261
Evidence for electron correlation in (6,5) carbon nanotubes from pump-probe spectroscopy with broadband pulses....Pages 262-264
Ultrafast Relaxation of Excited Dirac Fermions in Epitaxial Graphene....Pages 265-267
Radiationless Transitions and Angular Momentum Transfer in Semiconductor Nanocrystals....Pages 268-270
Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanowires....Pages 271-273
Time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy in graphite....Pages 274-276
Exciton Dephasing in Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 277-279
On the Absence of Carrier Multiplication in InAs Core/Shell/Shell Nanocrystals....Pages 280-282
Temporal dynamics of polaritons in a stronglycoupled organic-semiconductor microcavity....Pages 283-285
Three-Dimensional Electronic Four Wave-Mixing Spectroscopy in GaAs Quantum Wells....Pages 286-288
Ultrafast carrier dynamics in spherical CdSe core/elongated CdS shell nanocrystals....Pages 289-291
Time-Resolved Optical Studies of InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Wells in High Magnetic Fields....Pages 292-294
Femtosecond Formation of Ultrastrong Light-Matter Interaction....Pages 295-297
Ultrafast Bleaching and Gain in a Single Semiconductor Quantum Dot....Pages 298-300
Probing coherent optical phonons by Extreme Ultraviolet radiation based on high-order harmonic generation....Pages 301-303
Front Matter....Pages 306-306
Real-Time Monitoring of Structural Evolution in Cis -Stilbene Photoisomerization Time-Domain Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 307-309
Origin of Negative and Dispersive Features in Resonance Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 310-312
Front Matter....Pages 306-306
Reactive Dynamics in Nanoscale Water droplets Confined in Inverse Micelles....Pages 313-315
Symmetry Dependent Solvation of Donor-Substituted Triarylboranes....Pages 316-318
Substitution- and Temperature-Effects on Hemithioindigo Photoisomerization – The Relevance of Energy Barriers....Pages 319-321
Vibrational Coherence Decay in Metal Carbonyls: Solvent Dependence of Coherence Lifetimes Studied with MDIR....Pages 322-324
Generation of Narrowband Ultrashort Pulses Tunable in the mid-IR and the Application to Vibrational Energy Transfer in a Modified Amino Acid....Pages 325-327
Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics of J- and H- Aggregates of Porphyrin Catechol in Aqueous Solution....Pages 328-330
Chirp Effect on Vibrational Wave Packets in Large Molecules: a Multimode Perspective....Pages 331-333
Determining Vibrational Huang-Rhys Factors by Photon Echo Spectroscopy....Pages 334-336
Observation of High-Frequency Coherent Vibrational Motion with Strongly Chirped Probe Pulses....Pages 337-339
Coherent Transfer of Molecular Vibrations in the Electronic Excited States....Pages 340-342
Ultrafast Isomerization Dynamics of Biomimetic Photoswitches....Pages 343-345
Broadband femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion and photon echo experiments in the UV....Pages 346-348
Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Redistribution Measured by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Experiments in a Hollow Waveguide....Pages 349-351
Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy of N 6 ,N 6 -Dimethyladenine: New Explanation of the “Dual Fluorescence” Dynamics from Decay and Rise Time Measurements at Threshold....Pages 352-354
Assignment of the Excited-State Infrared-Spectra in the Course of the Ring Opening Reaction of a Photochromic Dihydroazulene....Pages 355-357
Time-resolved coincidence imaging of ultrafast molecular dynamics....Pages 358-360
Ultrafast time and frequency domain vibrational dynamics of the CaF 2 /H 2 O interface....Pages 361-363
Non-Condon vibronic coupling of coherent molecular vibration in MEH-PPV induced by a visible few-cycle pulse laser....Pages 364-366
Specific Channel of Energy Dissipation in Carotenoids: Coherent Spectroscopic Study....Pages 367-369
Coherent phonons in cyanine dye monomers and J-aggregates....Pages 370-372
Front Matter....Pages 306-306
Ultrafast Dynamics in Na-doped water Clusters....Pages 373-375
Electronic Excitations in Pentacene Films: Singlet versus Triplet Dynamics....Pages 376-378
Photoreaction from a light generated non-equilibrium state....Pages 379-381
Excited-State Nuclear Wavepacket Motion of an Ultrafast Inorganic Molecular Switch....Pages 382-384
Femtosecond Electronic Dynamics via a Conical Funnel....Pages 385-387
A new technique to measure time-resolved circular dichroism: ultrafast conformational dynamics of 1,1\'-bi-2-naphthol....Pages 388-390
Picosecond Time-Resolved Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy....Pages 391-393
Front Matter....Pages 396-396
Automated 2D infrared and electronic spectroscopies using pulse shaping....Pages 397-399
Relaxation-Assisted Dual-Frequency Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy: Measuring Distances and Bond Connectivity....Pages 400-402
Triggered-exchange Two-dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Metal Carbonyl Photodissociation Dynamics....Pages 403-405
Observation of Quantum Coherence in Light-Harvesting Complex II by Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy....Pages 406-408
Vibrational Beating in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectra....Pages 409-411
Double-Quantum Coherence Spectroscopy of Chromophore Aggregates....Pages 412-414
Chain Length Dependence of Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectral Pattern Characteristic to 3 10 -Helix Peptides....Pages 415-417
Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of Glycine-L-Alanine-Methylamide....Pages 418-420
How do vibrations change their composition upon electronic excitation? – EXSY-T2D-IR measurements challenge DFT calculations.....Pages 421-423
Propagation and beam geometry effects on 2D Fourier transform spectra of multi-level systems....Pages 424-426
Difference 2D-IR spectroscopy on the chromophore in bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 427-429
Coherent Control of Retinal Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin in the High Intensity Regime....Pages 430-432
Quantum Control of the Photoinduced Wolff Rearrangement of Diazonaphthoquinone in the Condensed Phase Using Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 433-435
Front Matter....Pages 396-396
Coherent control of matter waves passing through a conical intersection in β-carotene....Pages 436-438
Mode selective single-beam coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering....Pages 439-441
Early Time Vibrationally Hot Ground-State Dynamics in β-Carotene Investigated with Pump-Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing (Pump-DFWM)....Pages 442-444
Surface Femtochemistry: Investigation and Optimization of Bond-Forming Chemical Reactions....Pages 445-447
Coherent Control of the Exciton Dynamics in the FMO Protein....Pages 448-450
Coherent Control of Population Transfer in an Ionic Multilevel System using Phase- and Amplitude-Shaped Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 451-453
Coherent control of the efficiency of an artificial light-harvesting complex....Pages 454-456
Strong Field Coherent Control Using 2D Spatio-Temporal Mapping....Pages 457-459
Control of Excited-State Population and Vibrational Coherence with Shaped-Resonant and Near-Resonant Excitation....Pages 460-462
Pump-push-probe transient spectroscopy of isolated conjugated oligomers....Pages 463-465
Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Liquid-to- Supercritical Ammonia Studied by Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 466-468
Probing Intermolecular Couplings in Simulations of the Two-Dimensional Infrared Photon Echo Spectrum of Liquid Water....Pages 469-471
Heterogeneous Dynamics of Coupled Vibrations....Pages 472-474
Immobilized water in hydrophobic hydration....Pages 475-477
Collective Breakdown of H-Bonding in Ice....Pages 478-480
The Dynamics of Aqueous Hydroxide Ion Transport Probed via Ultrafast Vibrational Echo Experiments....Pages 481-483
Glasslike Behaviour in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions....Pages 484-486
Mid-IR-Induced Nuclear Wavepacket Motion of a Hydrogen Bonding System: Effects of Mechanical and Electrical Anharmonic Couplings....Pages 487-489
Ultrafast Photodecomposition of Dibenzoyl Peroxide studied by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 490-492
Electron detachment of OH (aq)....Pages 493-495
Front Matter....Pages 396-396
Pathways of Vibrational Relaxation after N-H Stretching Excitation in Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonds....Pages 496-498
GHz Longitudinal and Transverse Acoustic Waves and Structural Relaxation Dynamics in Liquid Glycerol....Pages 499-501
Frequency dependence of the molecular reorientation of liquid water....Pages 502-504
Ultrafast Temperature Jumps in Liquid Water Studied by Infrared-Pump and X-ray Absorption-Probe Spectroscopy....Pages 505-507
Influence of the Environment on Reaction Dynamics: Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in the Gas Phase and in Solution....Pages 508-510
Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of a molecular monolayer....Pages 511-513
Frozen Dynamics and Insulation of Water at the Lipid Interface....Pages 514-516
Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of interfacial water....Pages 517-519
Ultrafast Dynamics at Liquid Interfaces Investigated with Femtosecond Time-Resolved Multiplex Electronic Sum-Frequency Generation (TR-ESFG) Spectroscopy....Pages 520-522
Femtosecond spectral phase shaping for CARS spectroscopy and imaging....Pages 523-525
Front Matter....Pages 528-528
Energy transfer along a poly(Pro) - peptide....Pages 529-531
Energy transport in peptide helices around the glass transition....Pages 532-534
Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Adenine-Thymine Base Pairs in Hydrated DNA....Pages 535-537
Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics in the AppA Blue Light Sensing Protein....Pages 538-540
Direct observation of ligand transfer and bond formation in cytochrome c oxidase using mid-infrared chirped-pulse upconversion....Pages 541-543
Tryptophan Residues as Natural Ultrafast Voltmeters in Retinal Proteins....Pages 544-546
Interrogating Fiber Formation Kinetics with Automated 2D-IR Spectroscopy....Pages 547-549
Coherent Control of Chirality-Induced 2D Electronic Spectroscopy Signals....Pages 550-552
Two-Photon Two-Color Generation of Zeaxanthin Radical Cation in CP29 Light Harvesting Complex....Pages 553-555
Rebinding of Proximal Histidine in the Cytochrome c \' from Alcaligenes xylosoxidans Acts as a Molecular Trap for Nitric Oxide....Pages 556-558
Front Matter....Pages 528-528
Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of the Low-Light Adapted Light Harvesting Complex 4....Pages 559-561
Three-Pulse Photon Echo Spectroscopy as a Probe of Flexibility and Conformational Heterogeneity in Protein Folding....Pages 562-564
Ultrafast Rebinding of CO to Carboxymethyl Cytochrome c Probed by Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy....Pages 565-567
Real-time observation of the bond length modulation of carbon double bond during the photoisomerization of bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 568-570
Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: Optimization in Model and Nature....Pages 571-573
Coherently Controlled Release of Drugs in Ophthalmology....Pages 574-576
Light Harvesting, Energy Transfer and Photoprotection in the Fucoxanthin-Chlorophyll Proteins of Cyclotella meneghiniana ....Pages 577-579
Primary Reaction Dynamics of Green Absorbing Proteorhodopsin WT and D97N Mutant Observed by fs Infrared and Visible Spectroscopy....Pages 580-582
Photodynamics of a Collagen Model Peptide....Pages 583-585
Ultrafast Charge Migration Following Ionization in Oligopeptides....Pages 586-588
Probing Photodynamics of Retinal Protonated Schiff-Base with 7 fs Impulsive Vibrational Spectroscopy....Pages 589-591
The 2DIR Spectroscopy on C-D Modes of Leucined 10 Side Chain....Pages 592-594
A Time-resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy Study on Adenine/Thymine Based Nucleic Acid Systems....Pages 595-597
Mapping Parallel Pathways of Energy Flow in LHCII with Broadband 2D Electronic Spectroscopy....Pages 598-600
Dissecting Exciton Dynamics Pathways in Electronic Multidimensional Spectroscopy by Pulse Polarizations....Pages 601-603
Photoselection Polarization Experiments Reveal Ultrafast Electron Hopping Between Distinct Aromatic Residues in the Flavoprotein DNA Photolyase....Pages 604-606
Quantum Coherence Accelerating Photosynthetic Energy Transfer....Pages 607-609
Ultrafast dynamics of light-harvesting function of β-carotene in carbon nanotube....Pages 610-612
Direct Femtosecond Observation of Tight and Loose Ion Pairs upon Photoinduced Bimolecular Electron Transfer....Pages 613-615
Ultrafast Dynamics of Dansylated POPAM Dendrimers and Energy Transfer in their Dye Complexes....Pages 616-618
Front Matter....Pages 528-528
Electron Transfer in a Donor/Acceptor System Coupled to the Surface of Metal Oxide Nanoporous Films: Direct vs. Surface Confined Electron Transfer....Pages 619-621
Aqueous Proton Transfer Pathways in Bimolecular Acid-Base Neutralization....Pages 622-624
The solvated electron dynamics in aqueous bromide studied by three-pulse-spectroscopy....Pages 625-627
Naphthalene Bisimides: on the Way to Ultrafast Opto-electronic Devices....Pages 628-630
Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration in MEH-PPV Charge-Transfer Complexes....Pages 631-633
Photomodulation of Interfacial Electron Transfer by Optical Switches....Pages 634-636
Two-color two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy of energy transfer....Pages 637-639
Electron Injection Dynamics of Perylene Derivatives into ZnO and TiO 2 Particle Films....Pages 640-642
Front Matter....Pages 644-644
Dynamic Metamaterials at Terahertz Frequencies....Pages 645-647
Effect of Spin-Polarized Electrons on THz Emission from Photoexcited GaAs(111)....Pages 648-650
Nonlinear Lattice Response Observed Through Terahertz SPM....Pages 651-653
Ultrafast Electron Cascades Driven by Intense Femtosecond THz Pulses....Pages 654-656
Rabi Oscillations in a Shallow Donor System Driven by Intense THz Radiation....Pages 657-659
Nonlinear optical effects in germanium in the THz range: THz-pump - THz-probe measurement of carrier dynamics....Pages 660-662
Terahertz Nonlinear Response and Coherent Population Control of Dark Excitons in Cu 2 O....Pages 663-665
Impact Ionization in InSb studied by THz-Pump-THz-probe spectroscopy....Pages 666-668
Single Shot Linear Detection of THz Electromagnetic Fields on the Fs to Ps Scale....Pages 669-671
Intense THz Pulses and 11-fs Electro-optic Sampling with a Multi-Branch Er:fiber/Ti:sapphire Hybrid Amplifier....Pages 672-674
Frequency selective surface sensor for terahertz bio-sensing applications....Pages 675-677
Single cycle THz pulses in 1D and 2D photonic crystal structures....Pages 678-680
Front Matter....Pages 644-644
Terahertz wave from coherent LO phonon in a GaAs/AlAs multiple quantum well under an electric field....Pages 681-683
Improved Fast Scanning TeraHz Pulse System....Pages 684-686
Ultrafast photoemission electron microscopy: imaging light with electrons on femto-nano scale....Pages 687-689
Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Quantum Well States of Pb/Si(111) Investigated by Two-Photon Photoemission....Pages 690-692
Direct Visualization of Electron Emission during Femtosecond Laser Ablation....Pages 693-695
Attosecond Nanoplasmonic Field Microscope....Pages 696-698
Coherent Control of Surface Plasmon Propagation Directions....Pages 699-701
Ultrafast Laser-Induced Electron Emission from Field Emission Tips....Pages 702-704
Simultaneous Spatial and Temporal Control of Nanooptical Fields....Pages 705-707
Nano-Confined Light and Electron Sources Driven by Few-Cycle Optical Pulses....Pages 708-710
Nonlinear Optical Response of Metal Nanoantennas....Pages 711-713
Near-Field Imaging of Single-Cycle THz Pulses Transmitted Through Sub-Wavelength Metallic Slit Structures....Pages 714-716
Nanoscale Optical Microscopy in the Vectorial Focusing Regime....Pages 717-719
Ultrafast Wide-Field Fluorescence Microscopy....Pages 720-722
Measurement of Dispersion Properties of Silver Nanowires Used as Plasmon Waveguides....Pages 723-725
Front Matter....Pages 728-728
Pulse energies exceeding 20 μJ directly from a femtosecond Yb:YAG oscillator....Pages 729-731
Fundamentally Mode-locked 3 GHz Femtosecond Erbium Fiber Laser....Pages 732-734
Ultrabroadband Er:fiber Systems and Applications....Pages 735-737
Compact high Power Ytterbium based fs-Oscillator-Amplifier System....Pages 738-740
Fiber laser pumped high average power singlecycle THz pulse source....Pages 741-743
Front Matter....Pages 728-728
Millijoule Pulse Energy High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Fiber CPA System: Results, Micromachining Application and Scaling Potential....Pages 744-746
Femtosecond thin disk lasers with >10 μJ pulse energy for high field physics at multi-megahertz repetition rates....Pages 747-749
Ultra-high intensity-High Contrast 300-TW laser at 0.1 Hz repetition rate....Pages 750-752
Highly Efficient, Low-Cost Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Cr 3+ :LiCAF Lasers....Pages 753-755
Environmentally stable 200-fs Yb-doped fiber laser with dispersion compensation by photonic crystal fiber....Pages 756-758
Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplification Pumped by the Third Harmonics of a Ti:sapphire Laser....Pages 759-761
Sub-10 fs Pulse Generation in Vacuum Ultraviolet Using Chirped Four Wave Mixing in Hollow Fibers....Pages 762-764
Generation of High Energy Pulses from a Fiber-based Femtosecond Oscillator....Pages 765-767
Femtosecond passively mode-locked fiber lasers using saturable Bragg reflectors....Pages 768-770
Noncollinear optical parametric amplification of cw light, continua and vacuum fluctuations....Pages 771-773
Modeling of Octave-Spanning Sub-Two-Cycle Titanium:Sapphire Lasers: Simulation and Experiment....Pages 774-776
Ultra-Broadband Infrared Pulses from a Potassium-Titanyl Phosphate Optical Parametric Amplifier for VIS-IR-SFG Spectroscopy....Pages 777-779
Chirped-pulse Raman amplification for two-color high-intensity laser experiments....Pages 780-782
Generation of Broadband mid-infrared Pulses from an Optical Parametric Amplifier....Pages 783-785
Optimized 2-micron Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier for High Harmonic Generation....Pages 786-788
Generation of sub-20-fs, two-color deep-ultraviolet pulses by four-wave mixing through filamentation in gases....Pages 789-791
Efficient ultrafast four-wave optical parametric amplification in condensed bulk media....Pages 792-794
Cascaded four-wave mixing technique for highpower few-cycle pulse generation....Pages 795-797
2 MHz repetition rate - 15 fs fiber amplifier pumped optical parametric amplifier....Pages 798-800
Octave-wide tunable NOPA pulses at up to 2 MHz repetition rate....Pages 801-803
Front Matter....Pages 728-728
Asymptotic pulse shapes and pulse self-compression in femtosecond filaments....Pages 804-806
Efficient and Highly Coherent Extreme-Ultraviolet High-Harmonic Source....Pages 807-809
Single-stage Pulse Compression and High-Energy Supercontinuum generation from a Chirped-pulse oscillator....Pages 810-812
An All-Optical Synchrotron Light Source....Pages 813-815
Compression of an Ultraviolet Pulse by Molecular Phase Modulation and Self-Phase Modulation....Pages 816-818
Temporal Optimization of Ultrabroadband Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification....Pages 819-821
Third Harmonic X-waves Generation by Filamentation of Infrared Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Air....Pages 822-824
Generation and control of coherent conical pulses in seeded optical parametric amplification....Pages 825-827
Generation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses Using Multiple Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Signals in a Crystal and Observation of the Raman Phase....Pages 828-830
Generation of High-power Visible and UV/VUV Supercontinua and Self-compressed Single-cycle Pulses in Metal-dielectric Hollow Waveguides....Pages 831-833
Front Matter....Pages 836-836
CEO-Phase Stabilized Few-Cycle Field Synthesizer....Pages 837-839
High-power, mHz linewidth Yb:fiber optical frequency comb for high harmonic generation....Pages 840-842
High Harmonic Frequency Combs for High Resolution Spectroscopy....Pages 843-845
Ultrafast double pulse parametric amplification for precision Ramsey metrology....Pages 846-848
Towards Versatile Coherent Pulse Synthesis using a Femtosecond Laser and Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator....Pages 849-851
Frequency comb spectroscopy on calcium ions in a linear Paul trap....Pages 852-854
Generation of octave-spanning Raman comb stabilized to an optical frequency standard....Pages 855-857
Tunable, octave-spannning supercontinuum driven by X-Waves formation in condensed Kerr media.....Pages 858-860
Toward Ultrafast Optical Waveform Synthesis with a Stabilized Ti:Sapphire Frequency Comb....Pages 861-863
Multimillijoule Optically Synchronized and Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Stable Chirped Parametric Amplification at 1.5 μm....Pages 864-866
Front Matter....Pages 836-836
5-fs multi-mJ CEP-locked parametric chirpedpulse amplifier at 1 kHz....Pages 867-869
Sub-two-cycle pulses at 1.6 μm from an optical parametric amplifier....Pages 870-872
Carrier envelope offset control of broad Raman sidebands by locking two pump laser frequencies to a single optical cavity....Pages 873-875
Cancellation of the coherent accumulation in rubidium atoms excited by a train of femtosecond pulses....Pages 876-878
Front Matter....Pages 880-880
Sub-10-fs XUV Tunable Pulses at the Output of a Time-Delay-Compensated Monochromator....Pages 881-883
First Step Towards a Femtosecond VUV Microscope: Zone Plate Optics as Monochromator for High-Order Harmonics.....Pages 884-886
Measurement of Electron Pulse Duration by Attosecond Streaking....Pages 887-889
Nanoscale Spatial Effects of Pulse Shaping....Pages 890-892
Designer Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Using Grating-Engineered Quasi-Phasematching in Lithium Niobate....Pages 893-895
Direct Measurement of Spectral Phase for Ultrashort Laser Pulses Based on Intrapulse Interference....Pages 896-898
Two Dimension Spatial Light Modulator with an Over-Two-Octave Bandwidth for High-Powered Monocycle Optical Pulses....Pages 899-901
Vector Pulse Shaper Assisted Short Pulse Characterization....Pages 902-904
Femtosecond Spectral Interferometry with Attosecond Accuracy by Correction for Spectrometer Resolution Asymmetry....Pages 905-907
Spatial phase control and applications of high-order harmonics....Pages 908-910
A New Generalized Projections Algorithm Geared Towards Sub-100 Attosecond Pulse Characterization....Pages 911-913
Characterization of Mid-Infrared Pulses by Time-Encoded Arrangement....Pages 914-916
Intensity and phase measurements of the spatiotemporal electric field of focusing ultrashort pulses....Pages 917-919
Polarization, ionization and spatial gates in single attosecond pulse generation....Pages 920-922
All dispersive mirrors compressor for femtosecond lasers....Pages 923-925
Optical Mapping of Attosecond Ionization Dynamics by Few-Cycle Light Pulses....Pages 926-928
Front Matter....Pages 880-880
Polarization, Phase and Amplitude Control and Characterization of Ultrafast Laser Pulses....Pages 929-931
Silicon-Chip-Based Single-Shot Ultrafast Optical Oscilloscope....Pages 932-934
Time-resolved off-axis digital holography for characterization of ultrafast phenomena in water....Pages 935-937
3 GHz RF Streak Camera for Diagnosis of sub-100 fs, 100 keV Electron Bunches....Pages 938-940
Simulations of Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating for measuring very complex pulses....Pages 941-943
Electron density gradient measurement for laser wakefield accelerator....Pages 944-946
10-femtosecond Precision, Long-term Stable Timing Distribution Over Multiple Fiber Links....Pages 947-949
Two-dimensional pulse shapers capable of more than phase & amplitude modulation....Pages 950-952
Adaptive Phase Shaping in a Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification System....Pages 953-955
Two-dimensional Fourier transform electronic spectroscopy with a pulse-shaper....Pages 956-958
Probing Anomalous Spectral Diffusion and Exciton Fluctuations by Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy....Pages 959-961
Noninterferometric Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy....Pages 962-964
Front Matter....Pages 966-966
Filament-induced electric events in thunderstorms....Pages 967-969
Optimizing laser-induced refractive index changes in “thermal” glasses....Pages 970-972
Femtosecond laser fabrication for the integration of optical sensors in microfluidic lab-on-chip devices....Pages 973-975
Tailored Femtosecond Pulses for Nanoscale Laser Processing of Dielectrics....Pages 976-978
Electric Field Detection of Near-Infrared Light Using Photoconductive Sampling....Pages 979-981
Fluorescence-Detected Two-Dimensional Electronic Coherence Spectroscopy by Acousto-Optic Phase Modulation....Pages 982-984
Single-pulse standoff nonlinear Raman spectroscopy using shaped femtosecond pulses....Pages 985-987
Multiphoton Microscopy by Multiexcitonic Ladder Climbing in Colloidal Quantum Dots....Pages 988-990
Front Matter....Pages 966-966
Real-time wave-packet engineering using a sensitive wave-packet spectrometer and a pulse-shaper....Pages 991-993
Grating Enhanced Ponderomotive Scattering for Characterization of Femtosecond Electron Pulses....Pages 994-996
CARS Microspectrometer with a Suppressed Nonresonant Background....Pages 997-999
Resonant and Nonresonant Stimulated Parametric Fluorescence Microscopy....Pages 1000-1002
Femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy as an instrument for nanostructured materials investigation.....Pages 3003-3005
Selective excitation in nonlinear microscopy by using an ultra-broadband pulse....Pages 1006-1008
Interferometrically Detected Femtosecond CARS in a Single Beam of Shaped Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 1009-1011
Advantages of Two-photon Microscopy with Ultrashort Pulses....Pages 3012-3014
Development of laser-based imaging systems for medical diagnostics....Pages 1015-1017
Frequency shifts at the fiber-optical event horizon....Pages 1018-1020
Back Matter....Pages 1-11