Ultrafast Phenomena in Spectroscopy

I Generation and Amplification of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Towards a Laboratory X-Ray Laser.- Amplification of Femtosecond Light Pulses.- Generation of Tunable Femtosecond Pulses of High Energy.- Analysis of Actively Mode-Locked Lasers with Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation.- Design Considerations for a Linear Cavity Femtosecond Dye Laser.- Ultrashort Pulse Generation from the Sweeping Oscillator Dye Laser.- Ultrastable Subpicosecond Nd:Glass Laser and Stretched Pulse OPOs: A New Approach to High Intensity Tunable fs Light Fields.- Femtosecond Pulse Generation from a Titanium-Doped Sapphire Laser.- Colliding Pulse vs Mirror Contacted Dye Cell Mode-Locking Performances of a Nd:YAG Laser.- Diode Pumped cw Mode-Locked Nd:Glass Laser: Performance and Limitations.- Substructure in ps Light Pulses Emitted by Gain Switched Semiconductor Lasers.- Generation of Tunable Femtosecond Pulses by Selective Amplification of a Continuum.- Spectral Diagnostic Method for Temporal Study of Subpicosecond Distributed Feedback Dye Lasers.- Intensity Dependent Transmission of Window Materials at 248 nm.- On the Extension of the Matrix Formalism for the Calculation of Group Delay and Group Velocity Dispersion in Linear Optical Elements.- Limits of Pulse Generation in cw Mode-Locked Dye Lasers.- A Dye Laser Synchronously Pumped by Intense Subpicosecond Pulses from a Negative Feedback Stabilized Nd:Glass Laser.- Beta-Barium Borate Widely Tunable Picosecond Optical Parametric Oscillators.- Generation and Amplification of Picosecond Pulses in the 10µm Region.- II Measurement, Devices and Methods.- Lateral High Speed Photodiodes on Semi-insulating InGaAs:Fe.- High Resolution Optical Time Domain Reflectometry for the Characterization of Integrated Optical Devices.- Pulsed Excitation of aGaAlAs Semiconductor Laser by Picosecond Optoelectronic Switches.- Investigation of Internal Signal Propagation of an Integrated Circuit with High Temporal Resolution.- Two-Photon Luminescence in CsI:Na and Its Application for the Measurement of UV Femtosecond Light Pulses.- Picosecond Resolution in Optical Coherent Transient Experiments with Nanosecond Sources.- Enhancement of Second Harmonic Generation from a Silver Island Film by Self-Polarization.- Spectral Holography of Ultrashort Pulses and Photochronography of Ultrafast Processes with Pico- to Femtosecond Time Resolution.- Subfemtosecond Studies of Four-Photon Scattering in Dye Solutions.- Theoretical Study of Coherent Artifacts in Pump-and-Probe Experiments.- III Light Pulse Shaping and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena.- Soliton Generation from c.w. Diode Laser Signals.- Nonlinear Propagation of Ultra-short Optical Pulses in Activated Fibers.- Influence of Various Nonlinear Optical Processes on Femtosecond Light Pulse Propagation in Fibers.- Distortion of Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Optical Systems and Their Applications.- Optical Pulse Shaping by Spectral Hole Burning Filters.- High Time Resolution with Incoherent Light in the Raman Fringe Decay.- Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Picosecond Phonon-Polariton Pulses in Crystals.- IV Applications to Solid-State Physics.- Femtosecond Studies of Nonlinear Optical Processes in Wide-Gap II-VI Semiconductors.- Ultrafast IR Probing of Highly Excited Semiconductors.- Picosecond Spectroscopy of Nonthermalised Electron-Hole Plasma in Highly Excited CdS1-xSexCrystals.- Transient Energy Transfer in ps Two-Photon Absorption Experiments in CdTe at Room Temperature.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Highly Excited CuBr Microcrystallites.- Study of Some Optical and Electronic Propertiesof GaAs Through Picosecond Laser Induced Transient Gratings.- Investigation of the Gunn Effect in GaAs by Picosecond Photoconductivity.- Time-Resolved Luminescence Studies of Vertical Transport in Short-Period Superlattices with Enlarged Well.- Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Colloids.- Pump Energy Dependent Relaxation in Semiconductor-Doped Glasses.- V Applications to Molecular Spectroscopy.- Molecular Photochemistry with Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Polydiacetylene and Polythiophene.- Investigations on the Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonds by Picosecond IR Spectroscopy.- Sub-picosecond Time-Resolved Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer in Bichromophoric Molecules.- Sub-picosecond Transient Optical Absorption Spectroscopy of the Spiropyran-Merocyanine Photochromism.- Observation of Time-Resolved Absorption Anisotropy Decay Resulting from Rotation of Free Organic Molecules.- Rotation of Dye Molecules Induced by Optical Excitation.- Fast Structural Transformations of Organic Molecules.- Photoisomerization Dynamics of DODCI.- Time-Resolved Resonance-CARS Spectroscopy of the First Excited Singlet State of Stilbene-3 and of Cyanine Photoisomers.- Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy of Polymethine J-Aggregates.- Light-Induced Intramolecular Proton-Transfer in a System in Which the Excited Donor is Separated from the Acceptor by a Flexible Alkyl Chain.- Formation, Relaxation and Recombination of Polarons and Bipolarons in Poly(1,4-phenylene-1-phenylvinylene) (MP-PPV) in the Picosecond Time Region.- Non-Markovian Effects of Vibronic Relaxation in Spectroscopy with Intense USP and In-Phase Modulation of USP in a Saturable Absorber.- The Primary Steps of the Photosynthetic Process in Bacteria at Low Temperatures.- Femtosecond Absorption Spectroscopy of Primary Processes in Bacterial Photosynthesis Reaction Centers.- Evidence of Excited State Absorption of Strongly Interacting Chlorophylls Within Light-Harvesting Pigment Protein Complexes in Photosynthetic Systems.- Index of Contributors.