Laser Optics of Condensed Matter

Opening Remarks.- Section I Time Resolved Spectroscopy, Ultra-Fast Processes.- Spectroscopy with 6 Femtosecond Optical Pulses.- Hot Electrons in Semiconductors and Metals.- Laser Spectroscopy of Hot Photoluminescence in Semiconductors: Energy Spectrum and Relaxation Times.- Static and Dynamic Cooling Rate of Photocreated Plasmas in Semiconductors.- GaSe Nonlinear Susceptibility and Relaxation Process Rates.- Picosecond Laser Studies of Collisional Effects on Rotational Processes in Liquids.- Optical Manifestations of Energy and Phase Relaxation in Vibronic Systems.- Section II Two-Dimensional Systems, Quantum Wells, Heterolasers, Superlattices.- The Oscillations of 2D-Electron Density of States in a Transverse Magnetic Field.- Excitonic Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductor Quantum Wells.- Excitons in Quantum Wells and Short Period Superlattices.- Recombination Processes in GaAs/AlGaAs Multi-Quantum Well Structures.- Picosecond Raman and Luminescence Studies of Carrier Relaxation in Quantum Wells.- Gain Saturation and Features in Threshold Behaviour of AIIIBvHeterostructure Lasers.- Single-Frequency Diode Laser with a High Temperature Stability of the Emission Line.- Raman Studies of Phonons in GaAs/AlGaAs Superlattices.- Section III Surface Optical Phenomena.- Optical Interactions at Rough Surfaces.- Nonlinear Distributed Coupling into Guided Waves.- Bistability on a Surface in Nonlinear Diffraction.- Picosecond Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Surface Structure Transformations.- Raman Scattering of Light from Coherently Excited Surface Polaritons.- Resonant Raman Scattering as a Spectroscopic Probe of the Valence Electron Excitations of Adsorbates on Metals.- Laser-Stimulated Ionization and Desorption of Molecules in an Electric Field.- Section IV Optics of Small Particles, Defects.- Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Single Micron-Size Droplets.- Optical Spectroscopy of Size Effects in Semiconductor Microcrystals.- Cooperative Behavior of Configurational Dipole Defects in Plastic Deformed Semiconductor Crystals.- Section V Photon Localization.- The Spectrum of Light Propagation Times through a Disordered Medium and Mesoscopic Fluctuations.- Photon Localization in Time and Space.- Classical Diffusive Photon Transport in a Slab.- Anderson Localization of Classical Photons in a Disordered Dieletric.- Section VI Light Scattering.- Electron Single-Particle Light Scattering in InP Crystals and in Mixed Crystals GaxIn1-xP.- Dynamical Light Scattering at the Nonequilibrium Crystal-Melt Interface.- Selective Laser Heating and Nonlinear Light Scattering in a Homogeneous Medium.- Dynamic Central Modes and Photorefractive Effects at TI and Tc in Barium Sodium Niobate.- Are Phasons Observable in Optics?.- Laser Spectroscopy of Fast KNO3 Ferroelectric Switches.- Inelastic Light Scattering by Magnons in Antiferromagnetic EuTe.- Spectroscopy of Mn04 and Mn024 Centers in Alkali Halide Crystals.- Section VII Excitons, Polaritons.- Theory of Transient Optical Response and Pulse Propagation in Bounded Spatially Dispersive Media.- Picosecond Dynamics of Excitonic Polaritons in the Bottleneck Region.- Polariton Waves Near the Threshold for Stimulated Scattering.- Quantum Fluctuations and Statistical Properties of Intense Polariton Waves.- Transport and Quantum Statistics of Excitons in Cu2 .- Study of Localized Excitons in Semiconductor Solid Solutions by Selective Excitation.- Luminescence of Bound Excitons in Quasi-Two-Dimensional TlGaS2 Crystals.- Section VIII Photoactive Materials, Photorefraction, Hole-Burning, Holography.- Optically Dense Active Media of Solid-State Lasers.- Negative Absolute Electrical Conductivity of Optically Excited Ruby: Microscopic Nature of the Phenomenon.- Theory and Observation of Electron-Hole Competition in the Photorefractive Effect.- Coherent Optical Oscillation Due to Vectorial Four-Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystals.- Stimulated Photorefractive Scattering and Optical Phase Conjugation.- Dephasing of Impurities in Organic Glasses Between 0.04 and 1.5K via Spectral Hole Photoburning.- Photoburning of Persistent Spectral Holes and Space-Time Domain Holography of Ultrafast Events of Nano- and Picosecond Duration.- Associative Space-and-Time Domain Holography of Picosecond Light Fields via Photochemical Hole Burning.- Study of Hot Carrier Diffusion in Semiconductors by Transient Grating Techniques.- Pulsed Holographic Diagnostics of Electron-Hole Plasma in Semiconductors.- Section IX Optical Bistability in Semiconductors and Liquid Crystals.- GaAs Etalons and Waveguides: Bulk Versus Multiple-Quantum-Well Material.- Resonant Nonlinearities and Optical Bistability in Semiconductors.- Monolithic Microresonator Arrays of Optical Switches.- Optical Bistability in Vacuum-Deposited Semiconductor Fabry-Perot Interferometers.- Optical Bistability Without Optical Feedback and Absorption-Related Nonlinearities.- Optical Freedericksz Transitions and Associated Effects in Liquid Crystals.- Light-Induced Self-Excitation of 3-D Orientational Gratings in Liquid Crystals.- Rotatory Instability of the Spatial Structure of Light Fields in Lonlinear Media with Two-Dimensional Feedback.- Intrinsic Optical Multistability and Instabilities in Liquid Crystals.- Concluding remarks.- Participants.- Author Index.