Ultrafast Phenomena XV (eBook)

Attoseconds and High Harmonics.- Sub 100 attosecond XUV pulses.- Quasi phase matching of high harmonic generation in waveguides using counter-propagating beams.- Observation of Intra-molecular Vibrational Dynamics using High-Harmonic Generation as a Probe.- Ultrafast Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Si with 20fs Resolution Using HH Radiation.- Enhanced High Harmonic Generation from Ions using a Capillary Discharge.- Tunable isolated attosecond pulses.- Measurement and control of attosecond pulse formation.- Continuum Harmonic Radiation in the Extreme Ultraviolet Region Using Synthesized Sub-10-fs Two-Color Field.- Basis for ultrafast imaging of molecular orbitals with high-order harmonic generation.- Adaptive Spatial Control of High-Harmonic Generation.- A proposed tabletop atto-second pulse coherent X-ray source.- Attosecond pulse production and orbital tomography with orthogonally polarized two-color few-cycle pulses.- Isolated EUV Pulses via CEP-insensitive Nonlinear Stabilization in a Waveguide.- Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Holography: Dynamic Monitoring of Surface Deformation.- Femtosecond VUV Photon Pulses for Time-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy.- Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect on Pt(111).- Is high harmonic generation a single-active-electron process?.- Multi-Cycle Driven Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation.- Generation and High-Power Propagation.- Generation of 2 Terawatt Sub-8 fs Laser Pulses using Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification.- Holographic Snapshots of Laser Wakefields.- Phase-Mask Control and Stabilization of Optical Filamentation.- Development of a Multi-Terawatt Ultrabroadband Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier.- High energy self-phase-stabilized pulses by difference frequency generation and optical parametric amplification.- 5.1 fs pulses by filamentation — future prospective of self-compression to one optical cycle.- Interfering Lasing Filaments in Dense Absorbing Media.- Non-relativistic Magnetic Continuum Generation.- Mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser with dispersion compensation by a fiber taper.- Soliton-effect pulse compression of supercontinuum in photonic nanowires.- eXtreme Chirped Pulse Amplification using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers.- Direct Comparison of the Hollow-core Fiber and Filamentation Techniques for Few-cycle Pulse Generation.- Grism based stretcher/compressor system for amplified, femtosecond kilohertz lasers.- High Power Femtosecond IR Laser Source based on Noncollinear Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification.- Generation of high-fidelity sub-10-fs milIijoule pulses through filamentation for relativistic laser-matter experiments at 1 kHz.- MHz-rate white light generation using a novel positive-dispersion cavity-dumped Ti: sapphire laser.- High Spectral Irradiance White-Light Continuum Z-scan.- Generation of 460nm femtosecond laser by sum frequency synchronized picosecond Nd:YVO4 laser and femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser.- Generation of Sub-3-fs Optical Pulses Using Induced Phase Modulation in an Ar-Gas-Filled Hollow Fiber.- Multi-wavelength Erbium-doped Fiber Lasers on the Assistance of High-nonlinear Photonic-crystal Fibers.- Combs.- Femtosecond enhancement cavity — direct frequency comb spectroscopy and coherent extreme nonlinear optics.- Spectral Line-by-Line Pulse Shaping of a Mode-Locked Laser and a Phase Modulated CW Laser.- Mapping of the Optical Frequency Comb to the Atom Velocity Comb.- Demonstration of Frequency Comb Laser Spectroscopy in the Vacuum-Ultraviolet.- Determination of the CEO Phase — ionization of He with Circularly polarized 5.5-fs Pulses.- Direct distinction between phase shift and time delay with carrier-envelope phase-controlled pulses.- Spectral Dependence of Phase Noise of Stabilized Optical Frequency Combs.- Ultrafast Optics.- Shaped UV Pulses with 20 fs Substructures.- Direct UV-AOPDF ultrafast laser pulse shaping.- Acousto-optic shaping of femtosecond pulses directly in the mid-IR.- Measurement of the Complete Electric Field of an Ultrashort Laser Pulse from a Single-Exposure Digital Hologram.- Ultrasensitive Second-Harmonic Generation Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating Using a Fiber-Pigtailed Aperiodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide at 1.55 µ m.- Two-dimensional spectral shearing interferometry for few-cycle pulse characterization and optimization.- Chirped mirrors without dispersion oscillations by Brewster’s angle incidence.- Pulse Polarization Splitting with Propagation through an Ultrafast Transient Waveplate.- Design and Fabrication of Efficient Reflection Grisms for Pulse Compression and Dispersion Compensation.- A Novel Fast-mixing Microfluidic Device for Studying Nonequilibrium Systems using Femtosecond Spectroscopies.- 20-fps motion capture of phase-controlled wave-packets for adaptive quantum control.- Detection of Ultrafast Infrared Electric Fields by Chirped-Pulse Upconversion.- Enhancement of two-photon excited fluorescence by sub-micron photonic jets.- Spatiotemporal femtosecond pulse shaping using a MEMS-based micromirror SLM.- Secure Communications over a Public Network using Ultrafast Optical Technology.- Amplitude and Phase Shaping of Ultra-broad-bandwidth Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy analysis of Bacteria: What Femtosecond Lasers Make Possible.- Spatially Resolved Spectral Interferometry.- Measurement of pressure dependent dispersion of femtosecond pulses in air down to 0.01 mbar.- Gradient- and vortex-shaped fs pulses in air.- The General Theory of the First-Order Spatio-Temporal Couplings of Gaussian Pulses and Beams.- Coherent control of two photon fluorescence with a high-resolution spectral phase shaper.- Control of Third-Order Dispersion of Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Ultrasimple extremely broadband transient-grating frequency-resolved-optical-gating device.- Phase-sensitive resonance in scattering of continuous waves on femtosecond solitons in photonic crystal fibers.- Distortion of ultrashort pulses caused by aberrations.- All-Fiber Temporal Differentiator for Sub-picosecond Optical Waveforms.- Quantum Control of Two-Photon Fluorescence in Solution.- Chemistry.- Ultrafast spectroscopy of single molecules.- Observation of Raman-Induced Nuclear Wavepacket Motion in S1 cis-Stilbene: Adiabatic Change of a Potential Curvature and Anharmonicity of Multidimensional Potential.- Femtosecond laser-assisted catalytic surface reactions of syngas and their optimization by tailored laser pulses.- Vibrational spectroscopy of nonlinear excitations via excited-state resonant impulsive Raman spectroscopy.- Two-Color Electric Field Resolved Transient Grating Spectroscopy of an Oligophenylenevinylene Dimer.- Dissociative Wave Packets in Large Molecules: Control and Measurement.- Control of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene Ring-Opening.- Coherent Infrared Pulse Sequences for Probing Molecular Chirality.- Robust Basis Functions for Control from Dimension Reduction of Adaptive Pulse-Shaping Experiments.- Control strategies for molecular switches in donor-bridge-acceptor systems.- Ultrafast Chelation Dynamics of Model Photoswitches: Cyclopentadienyl Manganese and Arene Chromium Tricarbonyl Derivatives with Pendant Sulfides.- A Femtosecond IR and Raman Look on a Nucleophilic Addition in the Electronic Ground State.- Electron transfer and triplet state formation in merocyanine/TiO2 systems.- Dynamics of electron injection from the excited state of anchored molecules into semiconductors.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Fe(II) Polypyridyl Chromophores: Design Implications for Dye-Sensitized Photovoltaics.- Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in C6F6/Cu(111) after Localized or Delocalized Excitation.- Chirped molecular vibration after impulsive Raman excitation in a stilbene derivative molecule in solution.- Control of molecular fragmentation using binary phase shaped femtosecond laser pulses.- Accumulative quantum control of photochemical reactions.- Adiabatic Passage in the Presence of Excited-State Absorption and Two-Exciton Processes.- Ultrafast Photochromism: Structural and Electronic Dynamics of Indolyl Fulgimides.- Photo-excitation dynamics of malachite green in ionic liquids studied by the transient grating method.- Fifth-order Raman spectroscopy: Liquid benzene.- Dynamics of One-dimensional Exciton in Porphyrin J Aggregates by sub-5fs Transient Absorption Experiment.- Enhancement of Raman Modes in Complex Molecules by Coherent Control.- Energy Transport Mechanisms in Doped Organic Films.- Electron Transfer in Triarylmethane Lactones: From the sub-100 fs Regime to Solvent Control.- Pulse shape control of population transfer in LDS750..- Real-time Investigation of Elementary Steps for Photo-induced Phase Transition in a Model Dimer.- Intermolecular communication and a vibrationally adiabatic basis treatment of small-molecule dynamics in low temperature solids.- Multidimensional Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast Chemical Exchange 2D IR Spectroscopy.- Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy of Multi-chromophore Protein Complexes.- Multidimensional Population “Echo” Distinguishes Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Dynamics.- Observation of kinetic networks of hydrogen-bond exchange using 2D IR echo spectroscopy.- 2D-IR Photon Echo Spectroscopy of Liquid H2O — Combination of Novel Nanofluidics and Diffractive Optics Deciphers Ultrafast Structural Dynamics.- Propagation, beam geometry, and detection distortions of peak shapes in two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy.- 2D IR Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Bond Switching in Liquid Water.- Relaxation-Assisted 2D IR Using Weak Vibrational Modes.- Different Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectral Signatures for 310- and ?-Helix Octapeptides.- Multidimensional IR Spectroscopy of Site-Specific Hairpin Folding.- Single-Shot Time Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy.- Two-Dimensional Optical Correlation Spectroscopy Applied to Liquid/Glass Dynamics.- 2D optical spectroscopy of a conjugated polymer with tuneable visible 15 fs-pulses from a 200 kHz NOPA.- Direct Probing of the Local Solvent Response During Intermolecular Electron Transfer.- Femtosecond Multidimensional Imaging - Watching Chemistry from the Molecule’s Point of View.- Polarized Optical Two-dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductors.- Coherently Controlled Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy.- Transient 2D-IR spectroscopy of Thiopeptides.- Nonequilibrium 2D-IR Exchange Spectroscopy: Ligand Migration in Proteins.- Lineshapes and Correlations in Two Dimensional Vibrational Signals of NMA.- Manipulating Multidimensional Nonlinear Spectra of Excitons by Coherent Control with Polarization Pulse Shaping.- Well-Resolved Coherent Raman Spectra from Femtosecond Pulses.- Multidimensional Anisostropic Spectroscopy for The Study of Intramolecular Charge Transfer.- Two Dimensional Fourier Transform Electronic Spectroscopy: Evolution of Cross Peaks in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex.- Dispersion Relations in Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy.- Multidimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of a Peptide NH···O Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond.- Signatures of Chemical Exchange in 2D Vibrational Spectroscopy; Simulations Based on the Stochastic Liouville Equations.- Femtosecond 3D IR spectroscopy.- Hydrogen Bonding.- Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of HOD in Liquid to Supercritical Heavy Water.- Ultrafast Aqueous Bimolecular Acid-Base Proton Transfer: from Direct Exchange to Sequential Hopping.- On the role of water in intermolecular proton transfer reactions.- Picosecond Temperature and Pressure Changes in H-bonded Systems.- Multicolor IR Spectroscopy of Pure Liquid Water.- Towards a Molecular Movie: Real Time Observation of Hydrogen Bond Breaking by Transient 2D-IR Spectroscopy in a Cyclic Peptide.- An experimental and numerical study of hydrogen-bonding in aqueous salts and methanol.- Structural Dynamics of Rotaxanes Studied by Infrared Photon Echo Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast Superheating of Ice.- Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics of O-H Bending and Librational Excitations in Liquid H2O.- Ultrafast Intramolecular Energy Transfer in Water.- Understanding the Building Blocks of Life — Evidence of Hydrogen-Bonded Aggregation of N-Methylacetamide.- Anharmonic Bend-Stretch Coupling in Water.- Mode-selective O-H stretching relaxation in a hydrogen bond studied by ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy.- Biology.- Ultrafast Polarization-Sensitive Infrared Spectroscopy of Photoactive Yellow Protein and Model Compounds.- What determines the success of isomerization of the Photoactive Yellow Protein chromophore? — A picosecond pump-probe study in the midIR.- Femtosecond Pump — Shaped Dump — Probe Control of Retinal in Bacteriorhodopsin.- Experimental Coherent Control of Retinal Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin.- THz Radiation from Light-induced Electron and Proton Motion in Bacteriorhodopsin.- Ultrafast Photoreactions in the Green Fluorescent Protein Studied Through Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast Energy and Electron Transfer in Photosystem I - Direct Evidence for two-branched Electron Transfer.- Decomposing the Excited State Dynamics of Carotenoids in Light Harvesting Complexes and Dissecting Pulse Structures from Optimal Control Experiments.- Energy Transport in a Peptide Helix.- Ultrafast Energy Transfer in the Soret Band of Linear Porphyrin Arrays.- Multiphoton quantum control spectroscopy of ?-carotene.- Direct Observation of Ultrafast Dynamics in DNA Bases.- Following photoinduced dynamics in bacteriorhodopsin with 7 fsec impulsive vibrational spectroscopy.- Real-time observation of carbon double bond transformation during photo-isomerization of bacteriorhodopsin.- Ultrafast conformational changes in carboxymyoglobin studied by time-resolved circular dichroism.- Ultrafast Unzipping of a Beta-Hairpin Peptide.- Molecular Basis of Nonphotochemical Quenching; The Role of the Major Light Harvesting Complex II.- Direct observation of the ‘lubricant of life’ using ultrafast spectroscopies.- Mechanism of Radical Transfer During Photoactivation of the flavoprotein DNA Photolyase.- Relaxation Paths and Dynamics of ?-apo-8?-carotenal: An Ultrafast Electronic and Vibrational Study.- Slow Fluorescence and Fast Intersystem Crossing — The Xanthone Anomaly.- Ultrafast Relaxation of the S2 Excited State in ?-Carotene and its Homologs: A Role of Intermediate States.- Resonance Hyper-Raman Spectroscopy of Organic Nonlinear Optical Chromophores.- Thymine Dimer Formation probed by Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy.- Primary Reaction of Sensory Rhodopsin II Mutant D75N.- Carotenoid Excited State Kinetics in Bacterial RCs with the Primary Electron Donor Oxidized.- Ligand Interconversion Dynamics in the Primary Docking Site of Myoglobin in Various Solvents.- Time- and Frequency-resolved Two-dimensional Transient Absorption Imaging of ?-Carotene in Solids.- Determination of Electronic Mixing in Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria by Two-Color Three Pulse Photon Echo Peak Shift.- Ultrafast Charge Transfer Dynamics of a Modified Double Helical DNA.- A New Class of Ultrafast Photoswitchable Chromopeptides.- AMO Physics.- Three-Pulse Photon Echo in a Dense Potassium Vapor.- Coherent Population Control of Rydberg Atom by Adiabatic Rapid Passage.- Ultrafast dynamics of autoionization in O2 probed by laser-field-assisted XUV photoionization.- Control of Dissociative Ionization of Ethanol Molecule by Cascaded Double Ultrashort Laser Pulse Excitation.- Time-resolved Imaging of H2 + (D2 +) Nuclear Wave Packets.- Slowing down molecular dissociation in strong laser fields.- Investigation of Coriolis Perturbations on the ro-vibrational v 1 Band of H2CO with fs-CARS.- Rotational wave packet dynamics correlated to ultrafast non-time-stationary linear and nonlinear optical susceptibilities.- Ac Stark-Mediated Quantum Control with Two-Color Pulses in Two- and Three-Level Systems.- Molecular Orientation via Molecular Anti-Alignment.- Optimal control of molecular alignment with the feedback of ion images.- Solid-State Physics.- Evidence for Superfluorescent Recombination from Dense Magneto-plasmas.- Insulator-to-Metal Transition Induced by Mid-IR Vibrational Excitation in a Magnetoresistive Manganite.- Ultrafast coherent dynamics of the quantum Hall system.- Dynamics of Photoexcited Carriers in Heavy-electron Systems.- Energy relaxation and anomalies in the thermo-acoustic response of femtosecond laser-excited Germanium.- Enhanced photosusceptibility in the insulator-to-metal phase transition in vanadium dioxide.- Ultrafast Dynamics of the Itinerant Antiferromagnet UNiGa5.- Ultrafast Fano dynamics of quasiparticles in a semiconductor.- Unique Behavior of Lattice Modulation Phase Induced by Ligand Motion of a Mixed-Valence Metal-Halogen Complex.- Ultrafast Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Solids.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Fano-resonance in Zn.- Coherent Phonons in the Zone Boundary Region of Solid Ar Doped with Cl2.- Ultrafast gigantic photo-response in (EDO-TTF)2PF6 initiated by 10-fs laser pulses.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Coherent Optical Phonons in Graphite.- Subpicosecond Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Carrier Transfer in AlGaN Using Difference-Frequency Generation.- Plasmonics.- Adaptive Control of Nanoscopic Photoelectron Emission.- Femtosecond Microscopy of Surface Plasmon Propagation in a Silver Film.- Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities of Single Metal Nanoparticles.- Dynamical Electric Metamaterial Response at Terahertz Frequencies.- Nanolocalized Nonlinear Photoprocesses under Coherent Control.- Properties of Two-Photon Induced Emission from Dendritic Silver Nanoclusters.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Polarization induced at Surface Plasmon Resonances in a One Dimensional Metallic Plasmonic Crystal.- Landau Damping of Coherent Plasmons.- Nanostructures.- Polarization Dependence of Nanostructure Formation in Transparent Solids.- Time resolved magneto-optical microscopy of individual ferromagnetic dots.- Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of a Single Self-Assembled InGaAs Quantum Dot.- Microscopic Many-Body Analysis of Ultrafast Photocurrents in Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Intraband Spectroscopy of GaSe Nanoparticles and InSe/GaSe Nanoparticle Heterojunctions.- Observation of the Optical Stark Effect in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes.- Nonlinear Optical Approach to Multiexciton Relaxation Dynamics in Quantum Dots.- Memory and Nanostructure Formation in the Intense Field Ionization of Fused Silica.- Auger Recombination of Excitons in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes.- Probing Exciton Dynamics of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Photon Echo Spectroscopy.- Modeling of the Extreme Nonlinear Optical Response of Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Dephasing of Inter-Landau level Raman Coherences in GaAs quantum wells.- Real time observation of non-linear coherent phonon dynamics in semiconducting single wall carbon nanotubes.- Ultrafast Interfacial Carrier Dynamics in UV-Blue Photoluminescing ZnSe Nanoparticles.- Selective measurement of ultrafast exciton spin relaxation in quantum dots.- X-Ray Studies.- Direct Observation of Electron Dynamics at Surfaces using X-ray Spectroscopy.- Carrier Dependent Stability of a Semiconductor Lattice Measured with Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction.- Probing strain propagation in nanolayered perovskites by diffraction of femtosecond x-rays.- Lattice Motions from THz phonon polaritons measured with Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction.- Ultrafast XAFS of transition metal complexes.- Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Photochemical Transient Species in Solution.- Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction on DIABN Single Crystals.- Imaging Plume Dynamics with Ultrafast Hard X-rays.- Ultrafast X-ray diffraction and Optical Reflection Measurements of Coherent Optical Phonons of CdTe.- DNA Strand Breaks by a Laser-Driven Electron X-ray Source (LEXS).- High intensity XUV-FEL interaction with solids: first experimental results.- Ultrafast Electron Studies.- A Nanometer-sized Femtosecond Electron Source at 80 MHz Repetition Rate.- A spatially and temporally localized sub-laser cycle electron source.- Time Resolved Photoemission of an Insulator-Metal Transition.- Electronic Thermal Expansion and the Coherent Acoustic Phonons Generation.- Femtosecond Electron Diffraction Study on the Heating and Melting Dynamics of Gold.- Characterization of ultrashort electron pulses.- THz.- A compact radially polarized THz source based on velocity-mismatched optical rectification.- Carrier Dynamics in ZnO Nanowires and Films Measured by Time-Resolved THz Spectroscopy.- Stimulated Terahertz Emission from Excitons in Cu2O.- Terahertz nonlinear response in lithium niobate.- Spatio-Temporal Properties of Single-Cycle THz Pulses Generated by Relativistic Electron Beams in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator.- Terahertz Emission from Nano-structured Metal Surfaces.- High power compact THz system based on ultrafast Yb-doped parabolic fiber amplifier.- Phonon-Polariton Excitation in Ferroelectric Slab Waveguides and Photonic Crystals.- Using of 2D PPLN Crystal for Surface-Emitted THz-Wave Generation by Optical Rectification of Laser Pulses.- Dynamical Properties of Terahertz Radiation from Coherent Longitudinal Optical Phonons Confined in a GaAs/AlAs Multiple Quantum Well.- Characterization of Magnetization Dynamics using Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy.- Single-shot, High-resolution, THz Field Reconstruction using Phase-retrieval.- Nonlinear THz Spectroscopy of n-Type GaAs.- Terahertz amplification in high-dielectric materials.- Imaging and Microscopy.- Tissue imaging with shaped femtosecond laser pulses.- Selective Two-Photon Imaging of a Biological Sample.- Time-resolved Single-beam CARS with Shaped Supercontinuum from a Photonic Crystal Fiber.- Optical Coherence Microscopy and Cellular Imaging.- Novel applicatipns of broadband excitation to multiphoton microscopy.- In-vivo multi-nonlinear optical imaging of a living cell using a single femtosecond Ti:Sapphire oscillator.- Optically Active Sum Frequency Generation Microscopy for Cellular Imaging.- Two-photon Bio-imaging with a Mode-locked Semiconductor Laser.