Ultrafast Dynamics of Quantum Systems

Linear and Nonlinear Propagation of Short Light Pulses.- Linear and Nonlinear Propagation of Short Light Pulses.- Time Resolved Molecular Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Molecular Reactions at Metal Surfaces.- Some Selected Aspects of Light-Matter Interaction in Solids.- Femtosecond Pulse Generation: Principles and Fiber Applications.- Laser Sources for Ultrafast Spectroscopy.- Phonons, Electrons, and Electron-Phonon Interaction: Semiconductors and High-Tc Superconductors.- Surface Phonons and their Role in Ultrafast Phenomena.- Dielectric Description of Semiconductors: From Maxwell— to Semiconductor Bloch—Equations.- Coherent Dynamics in Semiconductors.- Quasiparticles and Quasimomentum.- On the Equivalence of Coupled Pendula and Quantum Mechanical Non-Crossing Rule.- Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy and Optical Control.- Long Seminars.- Solitions in Optical Fibers and Application to High Bit Rate Transmission.- Hot Luminescence and Fast Relaxation of Optical Centers in Solids.- Jahn-Teller Driven Movements of Excited Ions in Solids.- Recent Results in Multiphonon Non-Radiative Processes and in Novel Materials for Lasers and Amplifiers.- NASA’s Dial and Lidar Laser Technology Development Program.- Applications of Ultrafast Spectroscopy to Solid State Laser Materials.- Ultrafast Electron-Lattice Relaxation of Optically Excited Centers in Crystals.- Laser Crystal Emitting from Ultraviolet to Infrared and the Impact of Nonlinear Optics.- Non — Perturbative Up — Conversion Techniques: Ultrafast Meets X—Rays.- Nonlinear Interactions in Insulating Laser Crystals Under Femto- and Picosecond Excitation.- Interdisciplinary Lecture.- Unification in Particle Physics: Symmetries and Hidden Dimensions.- Short Seminars.- Measurements with anOptically Gated Scanning Tunneling Microscope.- Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Deep Emissions from Large Band Gap Semiconductors.- Chemical Dynamics of Uni- and Bimolecular Reactions Studied with Nonlinear Optical Techniques in the Femtosecond Time Domain.- Optical Spectroscopy on Single Molecules in Solids.- Nanoscopic Interactions Probed by Single Molecule Spectroscopy.- Fluorescence Intensity and Anisotropy Decays Measurements in the Frequency Domain.- Non-Destructive Optical Characterization of InxGa1-xAs Epitaxial Layer Composition, Thickness and Optical Quality.- Optical Homogeneous Linewidth in Amorphous Solids in the Framework of the Soft Potential Model.- Raman Shifted Laser Crystals with X(3) Non Linearity: Tungstate and Molybdate Crystals Families.- Luminescence Quantum Efficiency in CDSSE Mixed Crystals.- Luminescence and Afterglow in CSI:TL.- Position Sensitive Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry of Molecules.- Probing Exciton Distributions in Semiconductor Quantum Layers.- Light Induced Molecular Structure in H2+.- Posters.- Time Resolved Spin Relaxation in III-V Semiconductor Quantum Wells.- Analysis of the 4FN Energy Level Structure of the RE3+ Ions in RE Oxyhalides.- Temperature Dependence of Near Infrared to Visible Upconversion Luminescence of ER3+ in YSGG.- Quantum Confinement in Porous Silicon in the Effective-Mass Limit.- Ultrashort Laser Pulses Measurements by Means of Self Diffraction in Polydispersed Liquid Crystals.- Optical Near-Field Measurements on a Single Gold Nanoparticle.- Single-Atom Conditional Manipulation of Confined Quantized Electromagnetic Field.- Iterative Nonideal Conditional Generation of Nonclassical Cavity Field.- Multiple Branching of Vectorial Spatial Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Quadratic Media.- Relaxation Dynamics of Localized Excitons in ZnSe-ZnSSe Strained-Layer Superlattices.- Identification of Several Energy Transfer Pathways in the Light-Harvesting Complex II of Green Plants Using Current Structural and Spectroscopic Information.- Transient and Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning in CuBr Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- Multiphoton Excitation of GaN Using Picosecond Pulses.- 0.94 ?m Spectroscopy and Laser Development.- Spectral Lineshapes of Ammonia Transitions of the v2 Band Versus Pressure and Temperature.- Multiphoton Excited Luminescence of Porous Silicon.- First Roundtable Discussion.- Second Roundtable Discussion.- Summary.