Advances in Laser Chemistry

I. Laser- Induced Chemistry.- Internal Energy Transfer in Isolated Molecules: Ergodic and Nonergodic Behavior.- Spectroscopy and Relaxation of Vibrationally Excited HCO Radicals.- Dye Laser-Induced Photochemistry.- Chemical Applications of Lasers.- A Direct Measure of the Partitioning of Electronic, Vibrational, Rotational, and Translational Energies in Unimolecular Processes.- Laser Synthetic Chemistry and Laser Photogeneration of Catalysis.- Vibrational Excitation in the Products of S-Tetrazine Photolysis.- Deuterium Enrichment by CW CO2 Laser-Induced Vibrational Photochemistry.- IR Photodissociation of Fluorinated Ethanes and Ethylenes: Collisional Effects in the Multiple Photon Absorption Process.- II. Picosecond Processes and Techniques.- Vibrational and Electronic Relaxation in Moderate Sized Systems.- Picosecond Emission Spectroscopy with An Ultraviolet Sensitive Streak Camera.- Picosecond Studies of Some Ultrafast Events in Bacterial Photosynthesis.- Advances in Subpicosecond Spectroscopic Techniques.- Picosecond Dynamics of the Formation of Charge Transfer States in 9,9?-Bianthryl.- Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Ultrashort-Lived States of Aromatic Compounds.- Picosecond Studies of Unimolecular Processes.- Picosecond Chromodynamics of Electrons in Fluids.- First Observation of the Formation Process of Squid Hypsorhodopsin by Picosecond Spectroscopy.- Picosecond Laser Studies of Stil bene Laser Dye.- III. Non-Linear Optical Spectroscopy and Dephasing Processes.- Theory of Optical Dephasing in Condensed Phases.- The Origin of Vibrational Dephasing in Liquids and Solids.- Thermal Lensing Spectroscopy in the Condensed Phase.- The Use of Monochromatically Excited Resonant Light Scattering as a Probe of Ultra Short T1 and T2 Type Relaxation Processes in ExcitedElectronic States.- Molecular Mechanisms for Dephasing: Toward a Unified Treatment of Gases, Solids, and Liquids.- Molecular Spectroscopic Aspects of the Third Order Susceptibility.- Coherent Anti-Stokes Resonance Raman Spectra of Highly Fluorescent Compounds.- Applications of Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy at NRL.- Absolute Fluorescence Yields by Thermal Blooming: Fluorescein and Cresyl Violet.- IV. Multiphoton Excitation in Molecules.- Energy Redistribution in Molecules in the Quasi-Periodic and Ergodic Regimes.- Crossed Laser and Molecular Beams Studies of Multiphoton Dissociation.- Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules.- Two-Photon Spectroscopy by Elliptical Polarization State Alteration.- Doppler-Free Two-Photon Excitation of the Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectrum of CO.- The Two-Photon Spectroscopy of All-Trans Retinal and Related Polyenes.- Broadband Detection of Two-Photon Absorption by Intracavity Dye Laser Spectroscopy.- Multiphoton Dissociation of Molecules with Low Power CW Infrared Lasers.- Collisional Effects in Multiple Photon IR Absorption.- V. Molecular Dynamics by Molecular Beams.- Reaction Dynamics by Molecular Beams.- Structure and Dynamics of Van Der Waals Molecules.- Chemical Dynamics Investigated by Laser Probes.- Laser-Assisted Excitive Penning Ionization.- Photo-Induced Vibrational Predissociation of Van Der Waals Molecules.- Time Resolved Emission from Benzophenone in a Molecular Beam.- A Molecular Beam Study of the Selective Dissociation of SF6: The Influence of Laser Wavelength and Energy.- Time and Frequency Resolved Laser Studies on CS2 Discrete and Continuum Fluorescence.- High Resolution Spectra of Symmetric Molecules: Understanding Rotation and Permutation Dynamics.