ISBN: 3540412115
TITLE: Ultrafast Phenomena XII
AUTHOR: T. Elsaesser, S. Mukamel, M.M. Murnane, N.F. Scherer
TOC:

Part 1: Coherent Control
The Odyssey of Kent Wilson: Holding Molecules in the Light
D. Herschbach 3
The Kent Wilson Group in the 1990s
B. Kohler 10
Algorithms for Closed Loop Ultrafast Control of Quantum Dynamics
H. Rabitz 14
Control of Quantum Dynamics by Adaptive Femtosecond Pulse Shaping
M. Bergt, T. Brixner, B. Kiefer, M. Strehle, and G. Gerber 19
Optimal Control of Two-Photon Transitions: Bright and Dark Femtosecond Pulses Designed by a Self-Learning Algorithm
T. Hornung, R. Meier, D. Zeidler, K.L. Kompa, D. Proch, and M. Motzkus 24
Feedback Optimization of Molecular States Using a Parametrization in Frequency and Time Domain
T. Hornung, R. Meier, and M. Motzkus 27
Controlling and Probing Impulsively Induced Ground State Vibrational Dynamics
E. Gershgoren, S. Ruhman, J. Vala, and R. Kosloff 30
Dynamics and Coherent Control of Condensed Phase Vibrational Coherences
V.D. Kleiman, D. McMorrow, and J.S. Melinger 33
Spatiotemporal Coherent Control
R.M. Koehl and K.A. Nelson 36
Coherent Control and Nonlinear Interactions of Semiconductor Cavity Polaritons
Y.S. Lee, A.V. Maslov, D.S. Citrin, and T.B. Norris 39
Coherent Control of XUV Radiation
R. Bartels, S. Backus, I. Christov, L. Misoguti, G. Vdovin, E. Zeek, M.M. Murnane, and H.C. Kapteyn 42
Enhancement of k alpha Yield from Femtosecond Laser Produced Plasmas by Automated Control of Plasma Parameters
C. Ziener, I. Uschmann, G. Stobrawa, T. Feurer, H. Schwoerer, R. Sauerbrey 45
Part II: Lasers for Ultrashort Pulses
Challenges and Limitations on Generating Few Cycle Laser Pulses Directly from Oscillators
F.X. Krtner, U. Morgner, R. Ell, C. Jirauschek, G. Metzler, T.R. Schibli, Y. Chen, H.A. Haus, E.P. Ippen, J. Fujimoto, V. Scheuer, G. Angelow, and T. Tschudi 51
Extremely Flexible and Accurate Chirp-Compensation for 75-MHz Repetitive Glass-Fiber Output of a More-Than lOO-THz Bandwidth: Generation of a-Few-Optical-Cycle Transform-Limited Pulses
S. Nakamura, L. Li, N. Karasawa, R. Morita, H. Shigekawa, and M. Yamashita 56
14-fs Pulses at 1.3-m Generated from an All-Solid-State Cr: Forsterite Laser
C. Chudoba, J.G. Fujimoto, E.P. Ippen, H.A. Haus, U. Morgner, F.X. Krtner, V. Scheurer, G. Angelow, and T. Tschudi 59
Smooth Dispersion Compensation: Novel Chirped Mirrors with Suppresse Dispersion Oscillations
L. Gallmann, N. Matuschek, D.H. Sutter, V Scheuer, G. Angelow, T. Tschudi, G. Steinmeyer, and U. Keller 62
Dispersion Management over one Octave with Tilted-Front-Interface Chirped Mirrors
G.Tempea and F. Krausz 65
A Prism-Pair-Formed Pulse Shaper Compresses Optical Pulses to the 6 fs Regime
L. Xu, N. Nakagawa, R. Morita, and M. Yamashita 68
Correcting the Failure of the Slowly Varying Amplitude Approximation for Short Pulses
D.Alterman and J.Rauch 71
Precise Control of the Pulse-to-Pulse Carrier-Envelope Phase in a Mode-Locked Laser
D.J. Jones, S.A. Diddams, J.K. Ranka, R.S. Windeler, A.J. Stentz, J.L. Hall, and S.T. Cundiff 74
Carrier Envelope Offset Phase Stabilization for Few-Cycle Nonlinear Optics
G. Steinmeyer, D.H. Sutter, U. Keller, J. Stenger, and H.R. Telle 79
Sub-10 fs Light Pulses with Stabilized Carrier-Envelope Phase: Optical Waveform Synthesis
A. Poppe, R. Holzwarth, A. Apolonski, G. Tempea, C. Spielmann, T.W. Hnsch, and F. Krausz 82
Frequency Domain Control of Femtosecond Pulse Trains with Fabry-Perot Reference Cavities for Optical Frequency Metrology
R.J. Jones and J.C. Diels 87
Nonlinear Optcal Method for Determining the Absolute Carrier Phase of a Laser Pulse
M. Mehendale, S.A. Mitchell, D.M. Villeneuve, and P.B. Corkum 90
Generation of Relativistic Intensity Pulses at 300 Hz Repetition Rate
H. Wang, O. Albert, J. Nees, D. Liu, G. Mourou, and Z. Chang 93
Reflection Double Pass Ti:Sapphire Continuous-Wave Amplifier Delivering 5.77 W Average Power, 82 MHz Repetition Rate, 100 fs Pulse
Z. Liu, H. Murakami, T. Kozeki, H. Ohtake, and N. Sarukura 96
Chirped Pulse Amplification for Ultraviolet Femtosecond Pulses Using Ce:LiCAF Crystal
Z. Liu, T. Kozeki, Y. Suzuki, N. Sarukura, K. Shimamura, T. Fukuda, M.Hirano, and H. Hosono 99
Parabolic Pulses from Yb:Fiber Amplifiers: A New Paradigm for High Power Ultrashort Pulse Generation
J.D. Harvey, J.M. Dudley, V.I. Kruglov, B.C. Thomsen, and M.E. Fermann 102
Generation, Amplification and Characterization of Tunable Visible Ultrashort Shaped Pulses
H.S. Tan, W.S. Warren, and E. Schreiber 105
Synthesis of Supershort W Pulses Using Phase-Locked Raman Side-Band Generation
G. Korn, A. Nazarkin, and M. Wittmann 108
Generation and Measurement of Ultrafast Tunable VUV Light
L. Misoguti, C.G. Durfee, S. Backus, M.M. Murnane, and H.C. Kapteyn 112
Part III: Pulse Characterization, Shaping and Measurement Techniques
Autocorrelation Measurement of Femtosecond Optical Pulses Using Two-Photon-Induced Photocurrent in a Photomultiplier Tube
T. Hattori, Y. Kawashima, M. Daikoku, H. Inouye, and H. Nakatsuka 117
Precision and Accuracy of Ultrashort Optical Pulse Measurement Using SPIDER
E.M. Kosik, M.E. Anderson, L.E.E. de Araujo, C. Dorrer, and I.A. Walsmsley 120
Highly Simplified Ultrashort Pulse Measurement
P. O'Shea, M. Kimmel, X. Gu, and R. Trebino 123
Time-Gated FROG: A New Technique for Studying the Build-Up of Optical Pulse Field in Mode-Locked Ultrafast Lasers
Y.S. Hsing, J.M. Hsieh, and C.L. Pan 126
Measuring the Intensity and Phase of Ultrabroadband Continuum

L. Xu, M.W. Kimmel, P. O'Shea, R. Trebino, J.K. Ranka, R.S. Windeler, and A.J. Stentz 129
Amplitude and Phase Measurement of Mid-IR Femtosecond Pulses Using XFROG
D.T. Reid, P. Loza-Alvarez, C.T.A. Brown, T. Beddard, and W. Sibbett 132
Rapid Retrieval of Ultrashort Pulse Amplitude and Phase from a Sonogram Trace
I.G. Cormack, W. Sibbett, and D.T. Reid 135
Simultaneous Two-Dimensional Space and Time Measurement of Ultrashort Optical Pulses Based on Spatial Spectral Interferometry
T. Tanabe, N. Takei, H. Tanabe, and F. Kannari 138
Reliability of Fourier-Transform Spectral Interferometry
N. Belabas, C. Dorrer, J.P. Likforman, and M. Joffre 141
Direct Measurement of Spectral Phase of Femtosecond Pulses Using Optical Parametric Effect
K. Naganuma and S. Ishibashi 144
Ultrashort Pulse Characterization by Frequency Resolved Pump Probe
M.S. Pshenichnikov, A. Baltuska, F. de Haan, and D.A. Wiersma 147
Attosecond Cross Correlation Technique
A. Scrinzi, M. Geissler, and T. Brabec 150
Unbalanced Multiphoton Autocorrelation Techniques for fs Pulse Measurements in the Near IR
S. Marzenell, P. Mahnke, and R. Beigang 153
Unbalanced Third-Order Correlations for Characterizing the Intensity and Phase of Femtosecond Pulses
J.W. Nicholson, M. Mero, J. Jasapara, and W. Rudolph 156
Spectral Phase Correlator for Coded Waveform Recognition Using Second Harmonic Generation
Z. Zheng, A.M. Weiner, K.R. Parameswaran, M.H. Chou, and M.M. Fejer 159
Femtosecond Nonlinear Polarization Evolution from Cascade Quadratic Processes
X. Liu, F.O. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, and F.W. Wise 162
Femtosecond Polarization Detection Using High-Speed Pulse Shaping
D. Keusters, P. Tian, and W.S. Warren 165
Tunable Third-Order Dispersion of a Prismatic Pulse Compressor
K. Osvay, P. Dombi, A.P. Kovacs, J. Klebniczki, G. Kurdi, and Z. Bor 168
Nonlinear Dispersion Properties of Sub-Wavelength Photonic Crystals
S. Vijayalakshmi, Y. Zhang, G. Yaglioglu, R. Dorsinville, C.W. White, and H. Grebel 171
Carrier-Induced Optical Pulse Shaping in a Semiconductor Nonlinear Bragg Reflector
K .Ogawa and Y. Matsui 174
20-fs Pulse Shaping with a 5 12-Element Phase only Liquid Crystal Modulator
H. Wang, Z. Zheng, D.E. Leaird, A.M. Weiner, T.A. Dorschner, J.J. Fijol, L.J. Friedman, H.Q. Nguyen, and L.A. Palmaccio 177
Coherently Controlled Shaping of Ultrafast Electric-Field Transients in the Mid-Infrared
F. Eickemeyer, R.A. Kaindl, M. Woerner, and A.M. Weiner 180
Spatial Replenishment and Self-Focusing Dynamics of Ultrashort Laser Pulses
K.D. Moll and A.L. Gaeta 183
Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers
F.G. Omenetto, D. Yarotski, and A.J. Taylor 186
Microcavity-Enhanced Surface-Emitted Second-Harmonic Generation for Signal Processing in the ps and fs Regimes
T.G. Ulmer, B.R. Washburn, A.J. SpringThorpe, C.M. Verber, and S.E. Ralph 189
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy Utilizing Optical Kerr Shutter: Direct Observation of a Temporal Fluorescence Band Shape
T. Nagahara, Y. Kanematsu, and T. Okada 192
Part IV THz Generation and Measurement
An intense Broadband Terahertz Source Based on a Novel Four-Wave Rectification Process
D.J. Cook, J.X. Chen, and R.M. Hochstrasser 197
THz Generation by Photo-Ionization of Electrically Biased Air
T. Lffler, F. Jacob, and H.G. Roskos 200
Coherent THz Emission from Optically Pumped Intersubband Plasmons in Parabolic Quantum Wells
R. Bratschitsch, T. Mller, R. Kersting, G. Strasser, and K. Unterrainer 203
Narrow-Band Terahertz Wavetrains Generated by Optical Rectification in Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate
T. Meade, Y.S. Lee, V. Perlin, H. Winful, T.B. Norris, and A. Galvanauskas 206
Optimum Geometrical Conditions for Femtosecond Laser Irradiated Magnetit-Field Enhanced THz Radiation InAs Emitter and its Saturation Effect in High-Magnetit Field
H. Ohtake, S. Ono, M. Sakai, Z. Liu, H. Murakami, and N. Sarukura 209
Tunable Coherent far Infrared Radiation Emission from Biased Semiconductor Microcavities
R. Harel, I. Brener, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, J.M. Vandenberg, S.G. Chu, and J. Wynn 212
Amplitude and Phase Resolved Detection of Tunable Femtosecond Pulses with Frequency Components Beyond 100 THz
A. Brodschelm, F. Tausser, R. Huber, J.Y. Sohn, and A. Leitenstorfer 215
Ultrabroadband Detection of THz Radiation by LT-GaAs Photoconductive Antenna Gated with 15fs Pulses
S. Kono, M. Tani, P. Gu, and K. Sakai 218
A Simple Terahertz Spectrometer
T.F. Crimmins, M.J. Gleason, D.W. Ward, and K.A. Nelson 221
Ultrafast Applications of THz Waveguides
D. Grischkowsky, G. Gallot, S.P. Jamison, and R.W. McGowan 224
Variable Angle Impulse Ranging and Image Reconstruction of Dielectric Cylinders
M.T. Reiten, D. Grischkowslq, and R.A. Cheville 229
Dielectric Property Measurement of Sub-Micron Thin Film by Differential Time-Domain Spectroscopy
K.S. Lee, J.Y. Kirn, J. Fortin, Z. Jiang, M. Li, T.M. Lu, and X.C. Zhang 232
Excitation Dynamics Beyond the Slowly Varying Envelope Approximation
R. Kersting, R. Bratschitsch, G. Strasser, and K. Unterrainer 235
THz-Pulse Studies of Superluminal Propagation in Frustrated Total Internal Teflection
J.J. Carey, J. Zawadzka, D.A. Jaroszynski, and K. Wynne 238
Part V: Imaging and Microscopy
Optical Coherence Tomography for Biomedical Imaging
J. Fujimoto, W. Drexler, X. Li, I. Hartl, C. Chudoba, U. Morgner, F. Krtner, C. Pitris, E. Ippen, and M. Brezinski 243
Ultrahigh Resolution OCT Using Continuuum Generation in an Air-Silica Microstructure Optical Fiber
I. Hartl, X.D. Li, C. Chudoba, R. Ghanta, T. Ko, J.G. Fujimoto, J.K. Ranka, R.S. Windeler, and A.J. Stentz 248
Intracellular Water Diffusion Probed by Femtosecond Nonlinear CARS Microscopy
E.O. Potma, W.P. de Boeij, and D.A. Wiersma 251
Ultrafast Near-Field Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Quasi-One-Dimensional Transport in a Single Quantum Wire
V. Emiliani. T. Guenther, C. Lienau, T. Elsaesser, R. Ntzel, and K.H. Ploog 256

Femtosecond Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy of Molecular Thin Films
H. Kawashima, M. Furuki, S. Tatsuura, M. Tian, Y. Sato, L.S. Pu, and T. Tani 259
Background-Free THz Imaging Using Interferometric Tomography
J.L. Johnson, T.D. Dorney, and D.M. Mittleman 262
Diagnosis of Dental Cavity and Osteoporosis Using Terahertz Transmission Images
J. Ryu, Y. Jung, S. Baek, J. Lee, S. Kirn, S. Kwon, and J. Kirn 265
Part VI: X-Ray Generation and Diffraction, Higher Harmonics, High Intensity Physics
Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses from a Synchrotron
R.W. Schoenlein, H.H.W. Chong, T.E. Glover, P.A. Heimann, C.V. Shank, A.A. Zholents, and M.S. Zolotorev 271
Direct Observation of Ultrafast Non-Thermal Melting by Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction
C.W. Siders, A. Cavalleri, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, C. Toth, T. Guo, M. Kammler, M. Horn von Hoegen, K.R. Wilson, D. von der Linde, and C.P.J. Barty 276
Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Study of Ultrafast Acoustic Phonon Dynamics in Ge/Si Heterostructures
K. Sokolowski-Tinten, A. Cavalleri, C.W. Siders, F.L.H. Brown, D.M. Leitner, C. Toth, M. Kammler, M. Horn von Hoegen, D. von der Linde, J.A. Squier, C.P.J. Barty, and K.R. Wilson 281
Picosecond Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction from a Silicon Crystal under Laser-Induced Breakdown
K.G. Nakamura, Y. Hironaka, A. Yazaki, F. Saito, and K. Kondo 284
Time-Resolved X-Ray Measurements of Polaron Dynamics of Charge-Ordered Nd_1/2Sr_1/2MnO_3
I. Kang, S. Johnson, A. Lindenberg, R. Falcone, T. Missalla, P. Heimann, K.H. Kirn, T. Katsufuji, and S.W. Cheong 287
High-Order harmonic Generation in the Few-Optical Cycle Regime: Spectral Characteristics and Modeling
S. De Silvestri, G. Cerullo, M. Nisoli, E. Priori, S. Stagira, O. Svelto, L. Poletto, G. Tondello, P. Villoresi, C. Altucci, R. Bruzzese, and C. de Lisio 290
Nonadiabatic Self-Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation
G. Tempea, M. Geissler, M. Schnrer, F. Krausz, and T. Brabec 293
Diffraction Limited Emission of High Order Harmonics from Solid Surfaces
A. Tarasevitch, C. Dietrich, A. Orisch, and D. von der Linde 296
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Luminescence Spectroscopy of Inner-Shell Excitation by High-Order Harmonics
T. Sekikawa, T. Yamazaki, S. Miura, Y. Nabekawa, and S. Watanabe 299
Femtosecond X-Ray Fluorescence from Light Elements Excited by Laser Harmonics
M. Hentschel, M. Schnrer, R. Kienberger, C. Spielmann, F. Krausz, C. Streli, and P. Wobrauschek 302
Emission of Highly-Charged Ions of Heavy Elements from a Picosecond Laser-Produced Plasma
J. Badziak, J. Makowski, P. Parys, J. Wolowski, E. Woryna, and A.B. Vankov 305
Evanescent-Wave Acceleration of Ultrashort Electron Pulses
J. Zawadzka, D.A. Jaroszynski, J.J. Carey, and K. Wynne 308
Pulse Compression in Plasma: Generation of Femtosecond Pulses without CPA
G. Shvets, N.J. Fisch, A. Pukhov, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn 311
Dynamic Stark Effect in Rydberg NO Induced by Intense Laser Pulses
R.B. Lpez-Martens, T.W. Schmidt, and G. Roberts 314
Ultrafast Transient Grating Study of Molecules After High Intensity Excitation

M. Comstock, 1. Pastirk, and M. Dantus 317
Part VII: Ultrafast Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules and Clusters in the Gas Phase
Stepwise Electron Emission from Autoionizing Magnesium Stark States
J.B.M. Warntjes, C. Wesdorp, F. Robicheaux, and L.D. Noordam 323
Centrifugal Dissociation of a Molecule Using the Optical Centrifuge
D.M. Villeneuve, S.A. Aseyev, P. Dietrich, M. Spanner, M.Y. Ivanov, and P.B.Corkum 326
State-Selective Rotational Coherence Spectroscopy by Two-Color Pump-Probe Schemes
A. Weichert, C. Riehn, and B. Brutschy 331
Vibrational Revivals in the Iodine B-State from Femtosecond Fluorescence Interference Noise
C. Warmuth, A. Tortschanoff, F. Milota, M. Leibscher, I.S. Averbukh, W. Jakubetz, and H.F. Kauffmann 335
Untangling pi-pi^*/n-pi^* Orbital Interactions via Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy
J.P. Shaffer, T. Schultz, M. Schmitt, J.G. Underwood, and A. Stolow 338
Change of Ultrafast Ammonia Cluster Dynamics by a Femtosecond Infrared Control Pulse
P. Farmanara, V. Stert, H.H. Ritze, and W. Radloff 341
Observation of the Lorentz Local Field in a Dense Atomic Vapor Using Transient Spectroscopy
S.T. Cundiff, J.M. Shacklette, and E.A. Gibson 344
Part VIII: Ultrafast Processes in Semiconductors
Resonant Rayleigh Scattering from Semiconductor Nanostructures: Ultrafast Spectral Interferometry
D. Birkedal, A. Shchegrov, and J. Shah 349
Radiative Interwell Coupling of hh-,lh-Excitons, and Correlated Electron-Hole Pairs in Multiple Quantum Well Bragg Samples
D. Ammerlahn, J. Kuhl, B. Grote, S.W. Koch, G. Khitrova, and H. Gibbs 354
Highly Energetic Excitons in GaAs Studied via Femtosecond Transmission Spectroscopy
A. Leitenstorfer, G. Gger, M. Betz, M. Bichler, W. Wegscheider, and G. Abstreiter 357
Ultrafast Electro-Absorption at the Transition Between Classical and Quantum Response
A.H. Chin and J. Kono 360
Sub-Picosecond Dynamics of the Photo-Induced Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in CdTe at Room Temperature
A.V. Kimel, F. Bentivegna, V.N. Gridnev, V.V. Pavlov, R.V. Pisarev, and T. Rasing 363
Femtosecond Optical Time-of-Flight Measurement of the Electron Velocity in GaN
M. Wraback, H. Shen, J.C. Carrano, T. Li, and J.C. Campbell 366
Femtosecond Intersubband Dynamics of Holes in P-Type Si_1-x Gex/Si Multiple Quantum Wells
R.A. Kaindl, M. Wurm, K. Reimann, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, C. Miesner, K. Brunner, and G. Abstreiter 369
Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Study of Electron Dynamics in Self-Organized InAs Quantum Wires on InAlAs/InP (001)
E. Peronne, T. Polack, J.F. Lampin, A. Alexandrou, F. Fossard, F.H. Julien,
J. Brault, and M. Gendry 372
Size and Surface Dependence of Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in CdSe Quantum
Dots Determined by Fluorescence Upconversion Spectroscopy
D.F. Underwood, T. Kippeny, R. Ward, A.V. Kadavanich, J. Taylor, and S.J. Rosenthal 375
Investigation of Phase Change in Ge_2Sb_2Te_5 Films by Coherent Phonon Spectroscopy
M. Frst, T. Dekorsy, M. Laurenzis, C. Trappe, H. Kurz, and B. Bechevet 378
Generation of Coherent LO Phonons in GaAs/AlGaAs MQWs by the Impulsive
Stimulated Raman Scattering
K.J. Yee, Y.S. Lim,and D.S. Kim 381
Observation of Coherent Confined LO Phonons in ^70Ge/^74Ge Isotope Superlattices
M. Nakajima, H. Harima, K. Morita, K.M. Itoh, K. Mizoguchi, E.E. Haller,
And M. Hangyo 384
Effect of Lattice Defects on LO Phonon-Plasmon Coupled Modes in n-GaAs
M. Hase, K. Ishioka, M. Kitajima, and K. Ushida 387
Part IX: Isolators, Metals and Superconductors
Ultrafast Dynamics of Excitonic Self-Trapping: The Role of the Electron-Phonon Interaction
A.D.Van Pelt and L. Dexheimer 393
Femtosecond and Attosecond Giant Optical Responses and Fluctuations in Disordered Clusters, Nanocomposites, and Rough Surfaces
M.I. Stockman 398
Electron Energy Relaxation Dependent on Size and Matrix in Gold Nanocrystal-Dielectric Composites

Y. Hamanaka, J. Kuwabata, A. Nakamura, I. Tanahashi, and S. Omi 401
Femtosecond Photoemission Studies of the Transient Electron Temperature in Supported Metal Nanoparticles
M. Merschdorf, W. Pfeiffer, A. Thon, S. Voll, and G. Gerber 404
Acoustic Vibrations of Silver Nanoparticles
S. Gresillon, M. Perner, G. von Plessen, J. Feldmann, J. Porstendorfer,
K.J. Berg, and G. Berg 407
Ultrafast Interferometric Studies of Multiple Scattering of Light in Photonic Structures
Y.H. Liau and N.F. Scherer 410
Resolving Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron Thermalization in Gold Using Surface SHG
C. Guo, G. Rodriguez, and A.J. Taylor 413
Analysis of Hot Electron Cascades in Copper
M.J. Weida, S. Ogawa, H. Nagano, and H. Petek 416
Phonon Pair Combination States Driven by Second-Order Raman Scattering in KTaO_3
A. Bartels, T. Dekorsy, and H. Kurz 419
Temporally Decorrelated Multifocal Array for High-Speed, High-Resolution Multiphoton Imaging and Micromachining
D.N. Fittinghoff and J.A. Squier 422
Femtosecond Laser-Induced Ablation of Graphite
K. Sokolowski-Tinten, S. Kudryashov, V. Temnov, J. Bialkowski, D. von der Linde, A. Cavalleri, H.O. Jeschke, M.E. Garcia, and K. H.Bennemann 425
Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Study of the High-T, Superconductor YBa_2Cu_3O_7-delta
M. Woerner, R. A. Kaindl, T. Elsaesser, D. C. Smith, J.F. Ryan, G.A. Farnan,
M.P. McCurry, and D.G. Walmsley 428
Observation of the Josephson Plasma Resonance in TI_2Ba_2CaCu_2O_8
Using THz Spectroscopy
V.K. Thorsmolle, R.D. Averitt, M.P. Maley, L.N. Bulaevskii, and A. J. Taylor 431 Ultrafast THz Conductivity Dynamics: Spin-Lattice Relaxation in Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides
R.D. Averitt, AI. Lobad, C. Kwon, S.A. Trugman, V.K. Thorsmolle, and A.J. Taylor 434
Part X: Electron Dynamics and Charge Transfer at Interfaces and in Liquids
Femtosecond Electron Dynamics at Surfaces and Interfaces
C.B. Harris, A.D. Miller, S.H. Liu, and K.J. Gaffney 439
Spectral Sensitization, Supersensitization and Ultrafast Exciton Migration on AgBr Semiconductor Surface
I. V. Rubtsov, K. Ebina, K. Yoshihara, J. Knoester, T. Suzumoto, and T. Tani 444
Ultrafast Interfacial Charge Separation from the Singlet and Triplet MLCT
States of Ru(bpy)_2(dcbpy) Adsorbed on Nanocrystalline SnO_2 under Applied Bias
S. Iwai, K. Hara, R. Katoh, S. Murata, H. Sugihara, and H. Arakawa 447
Femtosecond IR Study of Ultrafast Electron Injection in Nanocrystalline Thin Film Electrodes
J. B. Asbury, E. Hao, Y. Wang, and T. Lian 450
Unique Curve Crossing and Vibrational Wavepacket Behavior of Femtosecond Heterogeneous Electron Transfer
C. Zimmermann, F. Willig, S. Ramakrishna, B. Pettinger, B. Burfeindt,
N. Biswas, and R. Eichberger 453
Surface States Control Ultrafast Electron Injection in Dye/Semiconductor Collodial Systems
R. Huber, S. Sprlein, J.E. Moser, M. Grtzel, and J. Wachtveitl 456
THz Pump-Probe Measurements of Electrons in Nonpolar Liquids
E. Knoesel, J. Shan, M. Bonn, M. Wolf, and T.F. Heinz 459
Photon-Echo Spectroscopy of the Hydrated Electron with 5-fs Pulses
M.S. Pshenichnikov, A. Baltuska, M.F. Emde, and D.A. Wiersma 464
Ultrafast Thermalization Dynamics of Hot Photoelectrons Injected into Water
V.H. Vilchiz, J.A. Kloepfer, A.C. Germaine, V.A. Lenchenkov, and S.E. Bradforth 467
Mid-IR Detection of a Precursor to the Prehydrated Electron
N.A. Anderson, K. Hang, J.B. Asbury, and T. Lian 470
Novel fs-Precursors of Solvated Electrons in Water in the MIR: A Charge Transfer Process
R. Laenen, T. Roth, and A. Laubereau 473
Femtosecond Study of Electron Photo Detachment from Complex Anions: Fe(CN)^4+_6 and CuBr^-_2 in H_2O
V. Lenchenkov, V. Vilchiz, J. Kloepfer, and S. Bradforth 476
Femtosecond Studies of the Charge-Transfer-to-Solvent Transition of the Sodium Anion in THF
E.R. Barthel, I.B. Martini, and B.J. Schwartz 479
(Sub)picosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Depolarization of OLED Compounds Alq_3, Gaq_3, and Inq_3
E. van Veldhoven, H. Zhang, and M. Glasbeek 482
Investigation of the Ultrafast Dynamics of Charge Recombination of Ion Pairs
Using Multiplex Transient Grating Spectroscopy
E. Vauthey 485
Ultrafast Adiabatic Electron Transfer Cooperated with Exciplex Formation
Induced by Strong Interaction Between Donor and Acceptor at Short Distances
S. Iwai, S. Murata, and M. Tachiya 488
Femtosecond Multicolor Pump-Probe Investigation of Ultrafast Electron Transfer of (NH_3)_5Ru^IIINCRu^II(CN)_5^- in Solution
D.H. Son, P. Kambhampati, T.W. Kee, and P.F. Barbara 491
Ultrafast Solvent-Induced Charge Localization in Tris-(2,2'-Bipyridine) Ruthenium(II)
A.T. Yeh, C.V. Shank, and J.K. McCusker 494
Part XI: Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy
Structural Dynamics of Small Peptides by Time Dependent 2D-IR spectroscopy
S. Woutersen and P. Hamm 499
Frequency Resolved and Heterodyned Femtosecond Infrared Echoes of Peptides: Multiple Pulse Coherent Vibrational Analogues of NMR
M.T. Zanni, M.C. Asplund, S.M. Decatur, and R.M. Hochstrasser 504
Nonlinear Two-Dimensional IR Spectroscopy of Unfolding Processes in -Peptides
C. Seheurer, A. Piryatinski, and S. Mukamel 507
Diffractive Optics Based 2-Colour Six Wave Mixing: Heterodyne Detection of the Fifth-Order Raman Response of Liquids
V. Astinov, K.J. Kubarych, C.J. Milne, S. Lin, and R.J. Dwayne Miller 510
Polarized and Magic Angle Fifth-Order 2D Electronically Non-Resonant Raman Scattering from CS_2
D.A. Blank, L.J. Kaufman, and G.R. Fleming 513
Separating the Direct and Cascaded Contributions to Two-Dimensional Signals Using Phase-Sensitive Detection
0. Golonzka, N. Demirdven, and A. Tokmakoff 516
Time Dependent 2D Fourier Transform Spectra Reveal Femtosecond Solvation Dynamics
J.D. Hybl, A.W. Albrecht, and D.M. Jonas 519
Two-Dimensional Time-Resolved THz Spectroscopy of Solvent Response
to Photoexcitation
M.C. Beard, G.M. Turner, and C.A. Schmuttenmaer 522
Part XII: Dynamics in Liquids
Ultrafast Intermolecular Transfer of Vibrational Excitations in Liquid Water
S. Woutersen and H.J. Bakker 527
Time and Frequency-Gated FID: A New Approach to Study the Vibrational
Dephasing of Water
J.A. Gruetzmacher and N.F. Scherer 530
Observation of the Bose Peak in Nanometer-Sized Liquid Water Clusters
Using Terahertz Spectroscopy
J. Boyd, A. Briskman, V. Colvin, and D. Mittleman 533
Interaction of Terawatt Laser Pulses with Neat Water
S. Pornmeret, F. Gobert, M. Mostafavi, I. Lampre, P. Pernot, R. Haidar,
S. Buguet, G. Vigneron, and J.C. Mialocq 536
Picosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of Carboxylic Acid Dimers
in Liquid Solution and Water-in-Oil Microemulsions
G. Seifert, T. Patzlaff, M. Janich, and H. Graener 539
Ultrafast Coherent Response of Hydrogen Bonds
J. Stenger, D. Madsen, J. Dreyer, E.T.J. Nibbering, P. Hamm, and T. Elsaesser. 542
Phase-Sensitive Detection for Polarization-Selective Femtosecond Raman Spectroscopy
M. Khalil, O. Golonzka, N. Demirdven, and A. Tokmakoff 545
Studies of the Third and Fifth Order Nonlinear Susceptibilities of Optical Materials Using Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
K.Ekvall,C.Lundevall,andP.vanderMeulen 548
Nuclear Dynamics in the Ground and Excited Electronic States for a Molecule in Liquid
J.S. Park and T. Joo 551
Ultrafast Solute Vibrational Spectral Evolution During the Solvation Process
J.B. Asbury, Y. Wang, and T. Lian 554
Separating Inertial and Diffusive Rotation and Solvation for a Nonpolar Solute
Y. Zhang, J. Jiang, and M. A. Berg 557
Solute Dependence of Three Pulse Photon Echo Peak Shift Measurement
Y. Nagasawa, A. Watanabe, and T. Okada 560
Ultrafast Dynamics in DNA
E.B. Brauns, M.M. Madaras, R.S. Coleman, C.J. Murphy, and M.A. Berg 563
Femtosecond Photophysics of DNA and RNA Nucleosides in Aequeous Solution
J.M.Pecourt, J.Peon,and B. Kohler 566
Investigation of Coherent Dynamics in Charge-Transfer Reaction of Plastocyanin
S. Nakashima, Y. Nagasawa, T. Okada, M. Sato, and T. Kohzuma 569
Part XIII: Polymers, Aggregates, and Macromolecular Systems
Vibrational Dynamics in Molecules and Polymers Revealed by Sub-5-fs Real-Rime Spectroscopy
T. Kobayashi 575
Early Events in the Photoexcitation of pi-Conjugated Chains Studied with Sub-10-fs Time Resolution
G. Cerullo, M. Zavelani-Rossi, G. Lanzani, and S. De Silvestri 580
Direct Probe of Spectrally Line-Narrowed Emission from Cooperative Optical State in n-Conjugated Polymeric Thin Films
S.C. Jeoung and D. Kim 583
Mapping of Molecular Docking of Organic Cations on Negatively Charged Polymers by Picosecond Time Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy
D. Pines, J. Cohen, Y. Zhao, V. Khutorsky, Z. Priel, and E. Pines 586
Direct Observation of the Ultrafast Electron Transfer Process in a Polymer/Fullerene Blend
C.J. Brabec, G. Zerza, N.S. Sariciftci, G. Cerullo, G. Lanzani, S. De Silvestri,
and J.C. Hummelen 589
The Controlled Coherent Excitation of Vibrational Modes in the Electronic Ground State of Polydiacetylenes
T. Chen, A. Vierheilig, W. Kiefer, and A. Materny 592
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Collective Electronic and Nuclear Modes in Conjugated Systems
M. Tommasini, V. Chernyak, and S. Mukamel 595
Theoretical Investigation of the Excited States Dynamics of the Polydiacetylene Backbone
T. Barisien, M. Turki, C. Daniel, and J.Y. Bigot 598
Ultrafast Energy Relaxation Processes of Long Molecular Wires Based on Zinc(II)porphyrines
Y.H. Kirn, D.H. Jeong, S.C. Jeoung, D. Kirn, N. Aratani, and A. Osuka 601

Dynamic Intensity Borrowing in Porphyrin J-Aggregates Revealed by Sub-5 fs Spectroscopy
H. Kano, T. Sato, and T. Kobayashi 604
Wavepacket Motion of Self-Trapped Exciton under Excitation by Femtosecond Chirped Pulses in One-Dimensional Metal Dimethyl-Glyoxime Complex
S. Iwai, T. Kamata, S. Murata, and K. Yamamoto 607
Energy Funneling in the Dendrimeric Nanostar Probed by Time-Resolved Nonlinear Spectroscopies
J.C. Kirkwood, C. Scheurer, T. Minami, V. Chernyak, and S. Mukamel 610

Ultrafast Investigations of Intramolecular Interactions and Energy Transfer
in Dendrimers and Polymeric Materials
T. Goodson 613
Systematic Fluorescence Upconversion Investigation of Intramolecular Processes in Peryleneimide Dendrimers Containing One to Four Chromophors
G. Schweitzer, G. De Belder, S. Jordens, S. Mitra, M. Lor, and F.C. DeSchryver 616
Part XIY: Ultrafast Chemistry
Experimental and Theoretical Study of Chirped Pulse Excitation
B.D. Fainberg, D. Huppert, and J. Segal 621
Probing CTTS Dynamics of Na^- in THF: Novel Relaxation and Polarization Effects
Z. Wang, O. Shoshana, and S. Ruhman 624
The Ultrafast Dissociation Dynamics of Iodine Embedded in Microporous Crystalline Porosils of Different Structure
G. Flachenecker and A. Materny 627
Ultrafast Dynamics in ClO_2 and ClO_2(H_2O)_n Excited at 398 nm
V. Stert, H.H. Ritze, P. Farmanara, F. Tschirschwitz, E.T.J. Nibbering,
and W. Radloff 630
Vibrational Mode-Specific Ultrafast Photodissociation Dynamics of Chlorine Dioxide in Solution
H. Fidder, F. Tschirschwitz, O. Dhr, and E.T.J. Nibbering 633
Ultrafast Infrared Studies of Ligand Rearrangement
at Coordinatively Unsaturated Transition Metal Centers
K.T. Kotz, H. Yang, P.T. Snee, C.K. Payne, and C.B. Harris 636
Ultrafast Fragmentation Dynamics of the Dicarbonyl(cyclopentadienyl)iron Halides
M. Bergt, N. Darmauer, C. Dietl, B. Kiefer, and G. Gerber 639
Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Dynamics
S. Lochbrunner, M. Schmidt, J.P. Shaffer, T. Schultz, and A. Stolow 642
Does the Proton Move During Ultrafast Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer?
E. Riedle, S. Lochbrunner, A.J. Wurzer, V. de Waele, and R. de Vivie-Riedle 645
Direct Observation of Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics in Condensed Phase Photochemistry and Photobiology
R.J. Sension, A.G. Cole, N.A. Anderson, and J.J. Shiang 648
Part XV: Biology
Disorder in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes: A Three-Pulse Photon Echo Peak Shift Study of the B800 Band of the LH2 Complex
R. Agarwal, M. Yang, and G. R. Fleming 653
Highly Unusual Growing-in of Coherenceand Strong Oscillations in the Bacterial FM0 Antenna Complexes Observed in Photon Echo Kinetics
V.I. Prokhorenko, A.R. Holzwarth, ER. Nowak, and T.J. Aartsma 656
Time-Dependent Exciton Delocalization Size in the B850 Band
of Purple Bacterial LH2
L.D. Book, A.E. Ostafin, N. Ponomarenko, J.R. Norris, S. Mukamel, and N. F. Scherer 659
The Kinetics of Primary Electron Transfer Steps in PS I Reaction Centers
S. Savikhin, P. Martinson, P. Chitnis, W. Johnson, W. Xu, and W. Struve 662
Ultrafast Charge Separation in the Plant Photosystem  Reaction Center
S. Kumazaki, I. Ikegami, S. Yasuda, and K. Yoshihara 665
Direct Observation of the S_1 Level of the Carotenoid Spheroidene Using Near-Infiared Femtosecond Spectroscopy
T., Polivka, D. Zigmantas, J.L. Herek, J.A. Bautista, H. A. Frank,
and V. Sundstrm 668
Femtosecond-Transient Absorption and Fluorescence Upconversion after Two-Photon Excitation of Carotenoids in Solution and in LHC II
P.J. Walla, P.A. Linden, and G.R. Fleming 671
Quantitative Modeling of Ultrafast Energy Transfer Dynamis in the Photosynthetic Apparatus
X.J. Jordanides, G.D. Scholes, and G.R. Fleming 674
Primat-y Reactions of Sensory Rhodopsins: Two Proteins with Vastly Different Dynamics
I. Lutz, A. Sieg, I Boche, M. Otsuka, D. Oesterhelt, J. Wachtveitl, and W.Zinth 677
Femtosecond Spectrosopcy and Model Calculations for an Understanding of the Primary Reaction in Bacteriorhodopsin
W. Zinth, A. Sieg, P. Huppmann, T. Blankenhorn, D. Oesterhelt, and M. Nonella 680
Resolving the Primary Dynamics of Bacteriorhodopsin and Locked Analogs
in the Reactive Excited States
T. Ye, B. Hou, E. Gershgoren, M. Ottolenghi, N. Friedman, M. Sheves, and S. Ruhman 683
Coherent Infrared Emission from Myoglobin Crystals
M.L. Groot, M.H. Vos, I. Schlichting, and J.L. Martin 686
Femtosecond Fluorescence Dynamics of Porphyrins; Internal Conversion,Energy Relaxation and Quantum Beats
Y. Shibata, H. Chosrowjan, N. Mataga, N. Yoshida, and A. Osuka 689
Femtosecond Pump-Probe Studies of Radiationless Decay Dynamics in Anthropod and Mollusc Hemocyanins
M.D. Edington, J.S. Floyd, N.M. Haralampus-Grynaviski, T. Ye, B. Zheng,
andJ.D. Simon 692
Initial Conformational Dynamics in Cyclic Azobenzene Peptides
J. Wachtveitl, S. Sprlein, W. Zinth, C. Renner, R. Behrendt, and L. Moroder 695
Index of Contributors 699
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