Ultrafast Phenomena XIV: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference, Niigata, Japan, July 25–30, 2004

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Ultrafast Phenomena XIV presents the latest advances in ultrafast science, including ultrafast laser and measurement technology as well as studies of ultrafast phenomena. Pico-, femto-, and atosecond processes relevant in physics, chemistry, biology and engineering are presented. Ultrafast technology is now having a profound impact within a wide range of applications, among them imaging, material diagnostics, and transformation and high-speed optoelectronics. This book summarizes results presented at the 14th Ultrafast Phenomena Conference and reviews the state of the art in this important and rapidly advancing field. Single-Cycle Optical Pulse Generation....Pages 3-7 Toward a terawatt few-optical-cycle driver laser for attosecond spectroscopy....Pages 8-12 2.8-fs clean single transform-limited optical-pulse generation and characterization....Pages 13-15 Coherent amplification of femtosecond pulses with passive enhancement cavities....Pages 16-18 Temporal and Spatial Pulse Compression in a Nonlinear Defocusing Material....Pages 19-21 Intense CEO-stabilized few-cycle laser pulses from supercontinuum generation in filaments....Pages 22-24 Generation of ultra-broadband high energy pulses without external amplification....Pages 25-27 Sub-10 fs multi-mJ Ti:sapphire laser system with a pressure-gradient hollow fiber....Pages 28-30 Generation of 14-fs ultrashort pulse in all fiber scheme by use of highly nonlinear hybrid fiber....Pages 31-33 High peak power ultrashort pulse generation using all-fiber chirped pulse amplification system with small core multimode fiber....Pages 34-36 Carrier-envelope phase fluctuations of amplified laser pulses transmitted through neon-filled hollow fiber for pulse compression....Pages 37-39 Temporal Self-Compression of Intense Femtosecond Pulses Propagating in Argon-Filled Hollow Waveguides....Pages 40-42 Stimulated Brillouin scattering in ultrahigh- speed femtosecond soliton pulse compression with a dispersion-decreasing fiber....Pages 43-45 Control of the spectral broadening of tens-millijoules laser pulses in an argon-filled hollow fiber using a conjugate pressure gradient....Pages 46-48 Microstructured fiber feedback pulse compression to few optical cycles....Pages 49-51 Spectral-temporal soliton dynamics analysis near second zero-dispersion point in photonic crystal fibers....Pages 52-54 Generation of Rotational Raman Emissions and Self-compressed Femtosecond Pulses in a Hydrogen Gas....Pages 55-57 Spectral broadening of 50 milli joule laser pulses in a neon-filled Herriot multiple-pass cell (MPC)....Pages 58-60 CEO phase preservation in chirped-pulse optical parametric amplification of 17.3-fs pulses....Pages 61-63 Long-term stabilization and control of CEP of idler from NOPA....Pages 64-66 Experimental and Theoretical Study of a Visible Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplified Pulse with 200 THz Bandwidth....Pages 67-69 Tunable wavelength pulse shaping of visible NOPA Outputs with an Acousto-Optic Programmable Dispersive Filter....Pages 70-72 Broadband high power optical chirped pulse amplification....Pages 73-75 Mid-infrared femtosecond pulse generation by optical parametric amplification under broadband QPM condition....Pages 76-78 Achromatic second harmonic generation: tunable ultraviolet pulses with sub-10 fs duration....Pages 79-81 Ultrabroad-band noncollinear optical parametric amplification in some new nonlinear optical crystals....Pages 82-84 Design of Multilayer Mirrors for the Reflection of Sub-Femtosecond Pulses in the XUV Spectral Region....Pages 85-87 Route to design electric fields of optical pulses: A combination of a pulse shaper and a carrier-envelope-phase stabilized chirped-pulse amplifier system....Pages 88-90 Towards electric field reconstruction using coherent transients in a two-level System....Pages 91-93 Spatiotemporal determination of the absolute phase of few-cycle laser pulses....Pages 94-96 Spatial chirp and pulse-front tilt in ultrashort laser pulses and their measurement....Pages 97-99 Principal Control Analysis: Gaining Insight from Feedback Learning Algorithms....Pages 100-102 Population-split Genetic Algorithm for phase retrieval of ultrafast laser pulses....Pages 103-105 Eight-Frame Observation of Propagation Behavior of 0.49-mJ, 45-fs Optical Pulses Generated by a 1-kHz Laser System....Pages 106-108 Self-referenced measurement of the complete electric field of ultrashort pulses in time and space....Pages 109-111 Pulse-measurement challenges at 1.5 microns: several-cycle pulses and several-element devices....Pages 112-114 Single-shot phase measurement by spectral phase interferometry using a streak camera....Pages 115-117 FROG measured 185 fs pulses generated by down-chirped dispersion-managed breathing-mode semiconductor laser....Pages 118-120 Direct Measurement of the Group Delay Dispersion of Ultrashort pulses utilizing Molecular Vibrations....Pages 121-123 Spatially encoded spectral interferometry for complete characterisation of attosecond XUV pulses....Pages 124-126 Spatially encoded spectral interferometry for complete characterization of ultrashort pulses....Pages 127-129 Full characterization of ultraviolet and visible 10-fs pulses with zero-additional-phase SPIDER....Pages 130-132 Direct visualization of transient absorption by real-time pump-probe imaging spectroscopy....Pages 133-135 Dynamic Molecular Imaging....Pages 139-143 Femtosecond electron diffraction: Towards making the “molecular movie”....Pages 144-148 Absolute Displacement Interferometry of Ultrafast Laser-Produced Plasma Expansion....Pages 149-151 Electron acceleration through spatiotemporal shaping of ultrashort light pulses....Pages 152-154 Mapping attosecond electron wave packet motion....Pages 155-157 Quasi-monoenergetic electron beam generation in laser-driven plasma acceleration....Pages 158-160 Control of multiphoton ionization processes in aligned I 2 molecules by optimizing time-dependent polarization of femtosecond pulses....Pages 161-163 Tomographic Imaging of Molecular Orbital with High Harmonic Generation....Pages 164-166 Femtosecond Infrared Vibrational Up-Pumping of Liquid Phase W(CO) 6 ....Pages 167-169 Ultrafast X-ray diffraction....Pages 170-174 Quasi-phase matching of high harmonic generation in the “water window” soft x-ray region....Pages 175-177 Adaptive engineering of coherent soft x-rays....Pages 178-180 Generation of strong soft x-ray field based on high-order harmonics....Pages 181-183 Generation of sub-4-fs high harmonic pulses and their application to the above-threshold ionization....Pages 184-188 Coherent imaging of laser-plasma interactions using high-harmonic EUV Light....Pages 189-191 High-Order Harmonic Generation from Argon Ions up to 250 eV....Pages 192-194 High-Order Harmonic Generation from Femtosecond Laser-Aligned Molecules....Pages 195-197 Efficient generation of high-order sum and difference frequencies in the XUV region by combining a weak, longer-wavelength field....Pages 198-200 Effects of Target Condition on Solid Surface Harmonics in the Extreme Ultraviolet Range....Pages 201-203 Control of the frequency chirp rate of high harmonic pulses....Pages 204-206 Wavefront Control in High Harmonics Generation with Few- and Many-optical-cycle Laser Pulses....Pages 207-209 Phase-driven strong-field processes in the multi-optical-cycle regime....Pages 210-212 Bright high-order harmonic generation at 13 nm and coherence measurement....Pages 213-215 Attosecond Pulse Generation During the Laser Pulse Reflection at the Plasma-Vacuum Interface....Pages 216-218 Energetic Proton and Deuteron Generation from a Microporous Polytetrafluoroethylene Film with Deuterated Polystyrene using a 2.4-TW Table-Top Laser....Pages 219-221 High-energy protons emitted from a polymer-coated metal foil by 60-fs laser irradiation....Pages 222-224 Estimation of proton source size generated by ultraintense laser pulses using a Thomson mass spectrometer....Pages 225-227 Imaging Nanostructures with Picosecond Ultrasonic Pulses....Pages 231-235 Ultrahigh frequency acoustic phonon generation and spectroscopy with Deathstar pulse shaping....Pages 236-238 Probing of Thermo-Acoustic Transients in Materials Using EUV Radiation....Pages 239-241 Ultrafast dynamics of coherent electron-phonon interaction in silicon....Pages 242-244 Generation of Coherent Zone Boundary Phonons by Impulsive Excitation of Molecules....Pages 245-247 Amplitude Collapse -Revival of Chirped Coherent Phonons under High-density Optical Excitation....Pages 248-250 Intense coherent optical phonons driven by impulsive excitonic interference under electric fields....Pages 251-253 Phonon-polariton Based THz Spectroscopy....Pages 254-256 Excitonic quantum beats dressed with coherent phonons....Pages 257-259 Evidence of higher-order nonlinearities in excitonic FWM signals in microscopic theory and experiment....Pages 260-262 Ultrafast Anisotropic Processes of Exciton Magnetic Polarons in CdTe/CdMnTe Quantum Wires....Pages 263-265 Time-resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy of excitons in Cu 2 O....Pages 266-268 Exciton dynamics in pentacene and tetracene studied using optical pump-probe spectroscopy....Pages 269-271 Dephasing suppression of excitons in semiconductors....Pages 272-274 Dynamical Stark effect of excitons in Cu 2 O by resonant pulsed excitation of the 1 s -2 p transition....Pages 275-277 Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration and Exciton Regeneration at Polymeric Semiconductor Heterojunctions....Pages 278-280 Exciton diffusion dynamics in an organic semiconductor nanostructure....Pages 281-283 Carrier-envelope phase controlled quantum interference in a semiconductor....Pages 287-291 Phase-resolved nonlinear response of modulation-doped quantum wells under femtosecond intersubband excitation....Pages 292-294 Ultrafast Intersubband Relaxation and Carrier Cooling in GaN/AlN multiple quantum wells....Pages 295-297 Polaritonics in complex structures: Confinement, bandgap materials, and coherent control....Pages 298-300 Detection of four-wave mixing signal from single layer quantum dots....Pages 301-303 Wavepacket Interferometry and Wavepacket Dynamics in Condensed Phase....Pages 304-306 Femtosecond wavepacket dynamics of potassium adsorbate on Pt(111)....Pages 307-309 Control of tunnel ionization in molecules by intense femtosecond laser pulses with time-dependent polarization....Pages 310-312 Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Dynamics in the Colossal Magnetoresistance Pyrochlore Tl 2 Mn 2 O 7 ....Pages 313-315 Femto-magnetism visualized in three dimensions....Pages 316-318 Photo-induced demagnetization observed by time-resolved mid-infrared transmittance spectroscopy in Ga 0.94 Mn 0.06 As....Pages 319-321 Optically Induced Magnetization and Ultrafast Spin Dynamics of Magnetic Ions in Ionic Crystals....Pages 322-324 Dynamic coupling-decoupling crossover in the current-driven vortex-state in Tl 2 Ba 2 CaCu 2 O 8 studied using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy....Pages 325-327 Ultrafast light induced Charge disordering around phase transition temperature in 2D spin ladder compound NaV 2 O 5 ....Pages 328-330 Correlation of the Electronic Transitions in Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 331-333 Ultrafast radial transport in a micron-scale aluminum plasma excited at relativistic intensity....Pages 334-336 Chirp Control of Free Carrier Dynamics in GaAs....Pages 337-339 Ultrafast insulator-to-metal switching by photoinduced Mott transition....Pages 340-342 Femtosecond Near Edge X-ray Absorption Measurement of the VO 2 Phase Transition.....Pages 343-345 Phase Transition in strongly-correlated VO 2 : Time-domain Assignment of Cause and Effect....Pages 346-348 Polarization-dependent phenomenon induced by the interaction between focused femtosecond laser and transparent materials....Pages 349-353 Investigation on the parameters of dense electronic plasma induced by femtosecond laser in fused silica....Pages 354-356 Dynamical Symmetry Breaking induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses in KTaO 3 ....Pages 357-359 Sub-20-fs study of energy relaxation in carotenoids in solution and inside light harvesting complexes....Pages 363-367 Energy flow in carotenoids, studied with pump-deplete-probe, multiphoton and coherent control spectroscopy....Pages 368-370 Amplitude spectra of molecular vibration modes in phthalocyanine: comparison with Raman excitation profile....Pages 371-373 Real-time tracking of the peaks in transition difference spectra during vibrational periods in PDA....Pages 374-376 Time-resolved CARS studies of vibrational coherences in the condensed phase: I 2 in solid krypton....Pages 377-379 Measurement of Conical Intersection Dynamics by Impulsive Femtosecond Polarization Spectroscopy....Pages 380-382 Vibrational Phase Characterization in Femtosecond-pumped Molecules by Path-length Modulation....Pages 383-385 Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Water-Acetonitrile Mixtures....Pages 386-388 Cascaded energy redistribution upon O-H stretching excitation in an intramolecular hydrogen bond....Pages 389-391 Pure intermolecular energy relaxation of the OH bending vibration of water molecules dissolved in organic liquids....Pages 392-394 Time-resolved spectroscopy of an azobenzene derivative with a small S 1 -S 2 energy gap....Pages 395-397 Photo-thermalization dynamics of azulene in supercritical fluids studied by the transient grating method....Pages 398-400 Vibrational Self-Trapping in an α-Helix....Pages 401-403 Infrared Photon-Echo Spectroscopy of Water: The Thermalization Effects....Pages 404-406 Heterodyne 2D-IR Photon Echo Spectroscopy of Multi-Level OH Stretching Coherences in Hydrogen Bonds....Pages 407-409 A unified analysis of ultrafast vibrational and orientational dynamics of HOD in D 2 O....Pages 410-412 Time Resolved Direct Probing of the Change in the Local Solvent Response Following Excitation of a Solute....Pages 413-415 Surface Femtochemistry: Photocatalytic Reaction Dynamics of Methanol / TiO 2 (110)....Pages 416-418 Three pulse four wave mixing for the study of coherent interactions, nuclear dynamics and solvation dynamics in liquids....Pages 419-421 Solvation dynamics of N-methylacetamide in D 2 O, CDCI 3 and DMSO-d 6 ....Pages 422-424 Femtosecond Pump-probe Measurements of Solvation Dynamics of Hydrogen-bonding Complexes in Non-associating Solvents....Pages 425-427 Novel Time- and Frequency-resolved Double Pump Spectroscopy of Short-lived Precursors: The Solvated Electron in Methanol....Pages 428-430 Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy on Aqueous Reverse-Micellar Nano-Droplets....Pages 431-433 Pump-probe near-field optical microscopy of molecular aggregates using supercontinuum....Pages 434-436 Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation Dynamics of Anions in Reverse Micelles by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 437-439 Femtochemistry in the electronic groundstate? IR-driven cis-trans isomerization of HONO....Pages 443-447 Bimodal Intermolecular Proton Transfer in Acid-Base Neutralization Reactions in Water....Pages 448-452 Ultrafast Excitation Energy Migration Processes in Various Porphyrin Arrays.....Pages 453-455 Energy transfer in phenylene ethynylene dendrimers....Pages 456-458 A 40-fs Time-Resolved Absorption Study of Cis -Stilbene in Solution: Observation of Coherent Nuclear Wavepacket Motion in Reactive Excited State....Pages 459-461 Monitoring an Ultrafast Photo-Isomerization by Femtosecond Fluorescence, Absorption, and IR Spectroscopy....Pages 462-464 From ultrafast spectroscopy to bidirectional molecular switches: DHA/VHF....Pages 465-467 Ultrafast Intramolecular Electron Transfer of 9,9′-Bianthryl as Studied by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Near-Infrared Absorption and Anisotropy in the 950–1500 nm Region....Pages 468-470 Real-time spectroscopy of charge-transfer excitation in phthalocyanine tin dichloride....Pages 471-473 Coherent nuclear dynamics coupled with electron transfer reaction in porphyrin-ferrocence dyads....Pages 474-478 Subpicosecond Pulse Radiolysis Study on Geminate Ion Recombination Process in n-Dodecane....Pages 479-481 Fast Spin Dynamics of Optically Induced Magnetization in Aqueous Solutions of Magnetic Ions....Pages 482-484 Vibrational excitation and energy redistribution after ultrafast intramolecular proton transfer of TINUVIN....Pages 485-487 Coherent Nuclear Motion in Reacting Molecules: Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Proton Transfer in Solution....Pages 488-490 Ultrafast double proton transfer: symmetry breaking wavepacket motion and absence of deuterium isotope effect....Pages 491-495 Photodissociation dynamics studied via Time-Resolved Coincidence Imaging Spectroscopy....Pages 496-498 Femtosecond Photo-induced Dissociation of the Trihalide Anions I 3 − and I 2 Br − in Solution....Pages 499-501 Coherent control of non-radiative transitions: long-range electron transfer....Pages 502-504 Teaching lasers to twist molecules....Pages 505-507 Quantum control of a chiral molecular motor driven by linearly polarized laser pulses....Pages 508-510 Numerical Synthesis of Optimal Laser Pulses for Manipulating Dissociation Wave Packets of I 2 − in Water....Pages 511-513 Molecular State Reconstruction by Nonlinear Wave Packet Interferometry....Pages 514-516 Femtosecond coherent spectroscopic study of Zn(II) porphyrin by chirping-controlled ultrashort pulses....Pages 517-519 Phase analysis of vibrational wavepackets in the ground and the excited states in polydiacetylene....Pages 520-522 Calculating Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Signals from Molecules in Cryogenic Matrices....Pages 523-525 Real-Time Observation of Phase -Controlled Vibrational Wave-packets in Iodine Molecules....Pages 526-528 Single-shot Transient Absorption of I 3 − in Solutions and Glasses....Pages 529-531 Dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water: Vibrational echoes and two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy....Pages 535-538 Dual-Frequency 2D IR Photon Echo of a Hydrogen Bond....Pages 539-541 2D-IR spectroscopy of transient species....Pages 542-544 Resolving Conformations of Acetylproline-NH 2 by Coherent 2D IR Spectroscopy....Pages 545-547 Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of rotaxanes....Pages 548-550 Thermal denaturing of proteins: Equilibrium and transient studies using nonlinear infrared probes....Pages 551-553 Two-Dimensional Optical Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Molecular Complexes....Pages 554-556 2-Dimensional Measurement of the Solvent Intermolecular Response in Solvation....Pages 557-559 Two-dimensional femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy using a chirped supercontinuum generated from a photonic crystal fiber....Pages 560-562 Two-dimensional spectroscopy by spectrally resolved real-time resonant coherent Raman scattering in polydiacetylene....Pages 563-565 Optical Two-dimensional Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Wells....Pages 566-568 Degenerate four-wave mixing spectroscopy based on two dimensional pulse shaping....Pages 569-571 Propagation and detection distortions of four-wave mixing signals: application to 2D spectroscopy....Pages 572-574 Fourier Transform Measurement of Two-Photon Excitation Spectra: Applications to Microscopy and Quantum Control....Pages 575-577 Watching proteins function with picosecond time-resolved X-ray crystallography....Pages 581-585 Energy transfer pathways in Photosystem I studied by one and two color photon echo spectroscopy....Pages 586-588 Dynamics of Carotenoids Probed by Femtosecond Absorption, Fluorescence, and Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 589-591 Multi-Pulse Transient Absorption and Carotenoid Excited-State Dynamics: β -Carotene....Pages 592-594 Observation and control of all- trans -β-carotene wavepacket motion using pump-degenerate four-wave mixing....Pages 595-597 Vibrational and Electronic Coherence Observed in Two-Dimensional Integrated Three-Pulse Photon Echo....Pages 598-600 Photon Echo Study of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Strength in Molecules and Molecular Aggregates....Pages 601-603 Time and Frequency Domain Investigations on Ultrafast Photoisomerization Reaction Dynamics of PYP....Pages 604-606 Entire view of coherent oscillations in ultrafast fluorescence for photoactive yellow protein....Pages 607-609 Ultrafast excited and ground-state isomerization dynamics of the Green Fluorescent Protein chromophore in solution....Pages 610-612 Optimal Control of Femtosecond Photoisomerization of Retinal in Rhodopsin: Effects of Conical Intersections....Pages 613-615 Ultrafast polarization and vibrational motions in bacteriorhodopsin studied by coherent infrared emission spectroscopy....Pages 616-618 Excited-state dynamics of the 1B u + , 3A g − , and 1B u − states in all- trans -spirilloxanthin as revealed by sub-5-fs time-resolved absorption spectroscopy....Pages 619-621 Ultrafast relaxation inside proteins: Calculation and measurement of electron-vibration coupling in enzymes....Pages 622-624 Direct observations of ligand rebinding trajectories in myoglobin by femtosecond mid-IR spectroscopy....Pages 625-627 Coherent vibrational climbing in carboxy-hemoglobin....Pages 628-630 Evidence for non-separating four-point correlation functions from IR pump-probe spectroscopy of CO in a protein internal cavity....Pages 631-633 The CO oscillator as a probe of ligand dissociation dynamics in myoglobin....Pages 634-636 A 2DIR study of backbone structure and dynamics of a dipeptide in membrane....Pages 637-639 Engineering cost function for optimizing coherent control between processes with different nonlinearities....Pages 640-642 Imaging of localized silver plasmon dynamics with sub-fs time and nano-meter spatial resolution....Pages 645-649 Ultrafast Dynamics of Light Transmission Through Plasmonic Crystals....Pages 650-654 Ultrafast Near-Field Microscope Imaging of Electron and Phonon Relaxation in Single Gold Nanoparticle....Pages 655-657 Plasmon enhanced ultrafast optical transmission in metallic nano-arrays....Pages 658-660 Excitation and propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on metallic periodic structures....Pages 661-663 Ultrafast dynamics of periodic arrays of holes in a gold film....Pages 664-666 Surface plasmon assisted 26 fs, 0.4 keV electron pulse generation....Pages 667-669 Space—Time Control in Ultrafast Nano-Optics....Pages 670-672 Coherent Control of Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Nanostructures....Pages 673-675 SPASER as Ultrafast Nanoscale Phenomenon and Device....Pages 676-678 Ultrafast quenching of ring closure in molecular switches, self-assembled on gold nanoparticles....Pages 679-681 Temporal spectroscopic behavior of terahertz pulses transmitted through metal hole arrays....Pages 685-689 Surface-plasmon-polariton enhanced tunneling of THz radiation through arrays of sub-wavelength apertures....Pages 690-692 Terahertz Access to the Nanoworld....Pages 693-695 Terahertz surface plasmon polariton coupling on metallic grating structures....Pages 696-698 Control of THz transmission through two-dimensional metallic photonic crystals....Pages 699-701 Teflon photonic crystal fiber as polarization-preserving waveguide in THz region....Pages 702-704 Generation of coherent tunable THz waves by using birefringent crystal and grating pair....Pages 705-707 Ultra-wide bandwidth THz emission from a semiconductor irradiated with intense, radially-polarized, Bessel-Gauss pulses....Pages 708-710 Mechanism crossover of terahertz radiation from InAs surface induced by a magnetic field at high density excitation....Pages 711-713 Transient Grating Generation and Waveform Shaping of Free-Space Propagating, Picosecond, Narrow-Band THz Radiation....Pages 714-716 Typesetting THz Waveforms....Pages 717-719 Magnetically induced evolution of terahertz radiation spectrum emitted from InAs up to 27T....Pages 720-722 A Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter with a Tuning Range of over 360 degrees around 1 THz....Pages 723-725 Cooper pair breaking dynamics in MgB 2 using optieal-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy....Pages 726-728 Femtosecond formation of phonon-plasmon coupled modes studied by ultrabroadband THz spectroscopy....Pages 729-731 Solid-state phase transition onset detection in estrogen-like chemical via terahertz transmission spectroscopy....Pages 732-734 Maximum Entropy Method for Misplacement Phase Error Correction in Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy....Pages 735-737 Pulsed terahertz spectroscopy and imaging applied to inspection of explosives and inflammable liquids....Pages 738-740 Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of surface plasmon polaritons on semiconductor surfaces....Pages 741-743 Evaluation of Complex Optical Constants of Semiconductor Wafers Using Terahertz Ellipsometry....Pages 744-746 Terahertz two-dimensional spectroscopic imaging with a high speed CMOS camera....Pages 747-749 Single-shot terahertz imaging....Pages 750-752 Ultrabroadband detection of multi-THz field transients with GaSe electro-optic sensors....Pages 753-755 Terahertz field detection beyond 30 THz by proton-bombarded InP photoconductive antennas....Pages 756-758 THz Wave Near-Field Emission Microscope....Pages 759-761 Optimization of a 40 GHz regeneratively and harmonically mode-locked fiber laser under PLL operation and its longitudinal mode characteristics....Pages 765-767 Femtosecond Synchronization of RF-Signals with Optical Pulse Trains....Pages 768-770 Fast photo-induced phase switching in organic conductor crystal; (EDO-TTF) 2 PF 6 ....Pages 771-773 Molecular phase-to-amplitude converter using femtosecond wave packet engineering....Pages 774-776 Femtosecond pulse recoding and regeneration by a two-photon gated periodic diffractive optics....Pages 777-779 Linewidth and RIN measurements of longitudinal modes in ultrahigh-speed mode-locked laser diodes....Pages 780-782 Charge Generation in Inorganic/Organic Photovoltaic Blends....Pages 783-785 Enhanced polariton decay in LiNbO 3 due to stimulated emission of acoustic phonons....Pages 786-788 Ultrafast Electrooptic Deflector Using Quasi-Velocity-Matching....Pages 789-791 Ultrafast Control of a Surface Plasmon Resonance via the Insulator to Metal Transition in VO 2 Nanoparticles....Pages 792-794 External Generation of Flat Power-envelope THz Modulation Sidebands from a CW Laser based on an Electrooptic Phase Modulator....Pages 795-797 3D photonic devices fabricated in glass by a femtosecond oscillator....Pages 801-803 Writing of photonic devices and waveguide lasers by a diode-pumped femtosecond oscillator....Pages 804-806 Toward the Fabrication of Hybrid Polymer/Metal Three-Dimensional Microstructures....Pages 807-809 Production of 3D, dichroitic microstructures in nanocomposite glasses by femtosecond laser pulses....Pages 810-812 Micrometer and sub-micrometer structures fabrication and analysis with femtosecond laser micro-nanomachining system....Pages 813-815 Femtosecond Laser Effects on Osseous Tissues....Pages 816-818 Femtosecond Laser Material Processing - How Short is Short?....Pages 819-821 Diode-pumped Cr 3+ :LiCAF Laser for Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography....Pages 822-824 Time-resolved electron imaging of femtosecond laser ablation....Pages 825-827 A new ultrastable cesium optical atomic clock with a 9.1926-GHz regeneratively mode-locked fiber laser....Pages 831-833 Frequency transfer of optical standards through a fiber network using 1550-nm mode-locked sources....Pages 834-836 Femtosecond laser optical frequency synthesizers with uncertainty at the 10 −19 level....Pages 837-839 Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs with linewidths at the 1-Hz Level....Pages 840-842 Frequency metrology with a turnkey all-fiber system....Pages 843-845 Optical frequency measurement precision of femtosecond laser optical comb system and the stability of its HF reference frequency....Pages 846-848 Evaluation of oscillation frequency stability of a diode laser using a fs laser optical comb....Pages 849-851 Coherent cooling of molecular vibrational motion with laser-induced dipole forces....Pages 855-857 Molecular orientation of CH 3 F induced by phase-controlled lights....Pages 858-860 Observation and manipulation of quantum interferences in ladder climbing....Pages 861-863 Adaptive polarization control of molecular dynamics....Pages 864-866 Two-photon absorption imaging with shaped femtosecond laser pulses....Pages 867-869 Selective two-photon functional imaging through scattering media based on binary phase shaping....Pages 870-872 Photon number squeezing of ultrabroadband pulses generated by microstructure fibers....Pages 873-875 Real-time, ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography at 1.5 µm using a femtosecond fiber laser continuum....Pages 876-878 Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Organic Nanotubes....Pages 879-881 Ultrafast molecule to semiconductor electron transfer via different anchor groups in ultra-high vacuum....Pages 882-884 Controllability in dissociative ionization of organic molecules with pulse-shaped intense laser fields....Pages 885-887 Laser Coulomb explosion imaging for probing molecular structure and dynamics....Pages 888-890 Ultrafast electron transfer via a bridge-extended donor orbital....Pages 891-893 Multiple Ionization of Atoms by 25 and 7 fs Laser Pulses....Pages 894-896 Time Resolved, Phase-Matched Harmonic Generation from Exploding Noble Gas Clusters....Pages 897-899