Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy

Lectures.- Investigating Physical Systems with Optical Spectroscopy.- Light-Matter Interactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale.- Photons and Photon Statistics: From Incandescent Light to Lasers.- Carrier-Wave Nonlinear Optics.- Carotenoid Excited States-Photophysics, Ultrafast Dynamics and Photosynthetic Functions.- Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells and Superlattices.- Lasers for Frontier Spectroscopy.- Coherent Spectroscopy of Stratified Semiconductor Micro- and Nanostructures.- Consequences of Extreme Photon Confinement in Micro- Cavities: I. Ultra-Sensitive Dedection of Perturbations by Bio-Molecules.- Luminescence Properties of Very Small Semiconductor Particles.- An Introduction to the Physics of Ultracold Atomic Gases.- Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms to Ultralow Temperatures.- Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in the Condensed Phase.- Lanthanide Series Spectroscopy Under Extreme Condition.- Excitonic Bose-Einstein Condensation versus Electron-Hole Plasma Formation.- Dynamics of Solid-State Coherent Light Sources.- Some Novel Aspects of Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer Processes.- Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectroscopy of Frontier Nonlinear-Laser Materials: Organic Crystals and Nanocrystalline Ceramics.- Interdisciplinary Lecture.- Strange Properties of Quantum Systems and Possible Interpretations.- Long Seminars.- Modulation Spectroscopy Revisited.- Advances in Solid State Lasers at NASA Langley Research Center.- Combinatorial Chemistry to Grow Single Crystals and Analysis of Concentration Quenching Processes: Application To Yb3+-Doped Laser Crystals.- Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers and Their Applications.- Rare Earth Ion Doped Ceramic Laser Materials.- Short Seminars.- Posters.