Ultrafast Phenomena XIV Proceedings of the 14th International Conference Niigata Japan July 25--3 [1 ed.] 9783540241102, 3540241108

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 8
Part I: Generation and Measurements......Page 35
Single-Cycle Optical Pulse Generation......Page 36
Toward a Terawatt Few-Optical-Cycle Driver Laser for Attosecond Spectroscopy......Page 41
2.8-fs Clean Single Transform-Limited Optical-Pulse Generation and Characterization......Page 46
Coherent Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses with Passive Enhancement Cavities......Page 49
Temporal and Spatial Pulse Compression in a Nonlinear Defocusing Material......Page 52
Intense CEO-Stabilized Few-Cycle Laser Pulses from Supercontinuum Generation in Filaments......Page 55
Generation of Ultra-Broadband High Energy Pulses without External Amplification......Page 58
Sub-10 fs Multi-mJ Ti:Sapphire Laser System with a Pressure-Gradient Hollow Fiber......Page 61
Generation of 14-fs Ultrashort Pulse in All Fiber Scheme by Use of Highly Nonlinear Hybrid Fiber......Page 64
High Peak Power Ultrashort Pulse Generation Using All-Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification System with Small Core Multimode Fiber......Page 67
Carrier-Envelope Phase Fluctuations of Amplified Laser Pulses Transmitted through Neon-Filled Hollow Fiber for Pulse Compression......Page 70
Temporal Self-Compression of Intense Femtosecond Pulses Propagating in Argon-Filled Hollow Waveguides......Page 73
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Ultrahigh-Speed Femtosecond Soliton Pulse Compression with a Dispersion-Decreasing Fiber......Page 76
Control of the Spectral Broadening of Tens-Milli-Joules Laser Pulses in an Argon-Filled Hollow Fiber Using a Conjugate Pressure Gradient......Page 79
Microstructured Fiber Feedback Pulse Compression to Few Optical Cycles......Page 82
Spectral-Temporal Soliton Dynamics Analysis Near Second Zero-Dispersion Point in Photonic Crystal Fibers......Page 85
Generation of Rotational Raman Emissions and Self-Compressed Femtosecond Pulses in a Hydrogen Gas......Page 88
Spectral Broadening of 50 Milli Joule Laser Pulses in a Neon-Filled Herriot Multiple-Pass Cell (MPC)......Page 91
CEO Phase Preservation in Chirped-Pulse Optical Parametric Amplification of 17.3-fs Pulses......Page 94
Long-Term Stabilization and Control of CEP of Idler from NOPA......Page 97
Experimental and Theoretical Study of a Visible Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplified Pulse with 200 THz Bandwidth......Page 100
Tunable Wavelength Pulse Shaping of Visible NOPA Outputs with an Acousto-Optic Programmable Dispersive Filter......Page 103
Broadband High Power Optical Chirped Pulse Amplification......Page 106
Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulse Generation by Optical Parametric Amplification under Broadband QPM Condition......Page 109
Achromatic Second Harmonic Generation: Tunable Ultraviolet Pulses with Sub-10 fs Duration......Page 112
Ultrabroad-Band Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Some New Nonlinear Optical Crystals......Page 115
Design of Multilayer Mirrors for the Reflection of Sub-Femtosecond Pulses in the XUV Spectral Region......Page 118
Route to Design Electric Fields of Optical Pulses: A Combination of a Pulse Shaper and a Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilized Chirped-Pulse Amplifier System......Page 121
Towards Electric Field Reconstruction Using Coherent Transients in a Two-Level System......Page 124
Spatiotemporal Determination of the Absolute Phase of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses......Page 127
Spatial Chirp and Pulse-Front Tilt in Ultrashort Laser Pulses and Their Measurement......Page 130
Principal Control Analysis: Gaining Insight from Feedback Learning Algorithms......Page 133
Population-Split Genetic Algorithm for Phase Retrieval of Ultrafast Laser Pulses......Page 136
Eight-Frame Observation of Propagation Behavior of 0.49-mJ, 45-fs Optical Pulses Generated by a 1-kHz Laser System......Page 139
Self-Referenced Measurement of the Complete Electric Field of Ultrashort Pulses in Time and Space......Page 142
Pulse-Measurement Challenges at 1.5 Microns: Several-Cycle Pulses and Several-Element Devices......Page 145
Single-Shot Phase Measurement by Spectral Phase Interferometry Using a Streak Camera......Page 148
FROG Measured 185 fs Pulses Generated by Down-Chirped Dispersion-Managed Breathing-Mode Semiconductor Laser......Page 151
Direct Measurement of the Group Delay Dispersion of Ultrashort Pulses Utilizing Molecular Vibrations......Page 154
Spatially Encoded Spectral Interferometry for Complete Characterisation of Attosecond XUV Pulses......Page 157
Spatially Encoded Spectral Interferometry for Complete Characterization of Ultrashort Pulses......Page 160
Full Characterization of Ultraviolet and Visible 10-fs Pulses with Zero-Additional-Phase SPIDER......Page 163
Direct Visualization of Transient Absorption by Real-Time Pump-Probe Imaging Spectroscopy......Page 166
Part II: Strong Fields and High Order Harmonics......Page 169
Dynamic Molecular Imaging......Page 170
Femtosecond Electron Diffraction: Towards Making the “Molecular Movie”......Page 175
Absolute Displacement Interferometry of Ultrafast Laser-Produced Plasma Expansion......Page 180
Electron Acceleration through Spatiotemporal Shaping of Ultrashort Light Pulses......Page 183
Mapping Attosecond Electron Wave Packet Motion......Page 186
Quasi-Monoenergetic Electron Beam Generation in Laser-Driven Plasma Acceleration......Page 189
Control of Multiphoton Ionization Processes in Aligned I[sub(2)] Molecules by Optimizing Time-Dependent Polarization of Femtosecond Pulses......Page 192
Tomographic Imaging of Molecular Orbital with High Harmonic Generation......Page 195
Femtosecond Infrared Vibrational Up-Pumping of Liquid Phase W(CO)[sub(6)]......Page 198
Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction......Page 201
Quasi-Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation in the “water window” Soft X-Ray Region......Page 206
Adaptive Engineering of Coherent Soft X-Rays......Page 209
Generation of Strong Soft X-Ray Field Based on High-Order Harmonics......Page 212
Generation of Sub-4-fs High Harmonic Pulses and Their Application to the Above-Threshold Ionization......Page 215
Coherent Imaging of Laser-Plasma Interactions Using High-Harmonic EUV Light......Page 220
High-Order Harmonic Generation from Argon Ions up to 250 eV......Page 223
High-Order Harmonic Generation from Femtosecond Laser-Aligned Molecules......Page 226
Efficient Generation of High-Order Sum and Difference Frequencies in the XUV Region by Combining a Weak, Longer-Wavelength Field......Page 229
Effects of Target Condition on Solid Surface Harmonics in the Extreme Ultraviolet Range......Page 232
Control of the Frequency Chirp Rate of High Harmonic Pulses......Page 235
Wavefront Control in High Harmonics Generation with Few-and Many-Optical-Cycle Laser Pulses......Page 238
Phase-Driven Strong-Field Processes in the Multi-Optical-Cycle Regime......Page 241
Bright High-Order Harmonic Generation at 13 nm and Coherence Measurement......Page 244
Attosecond Pulse Generation During the Laser Pulse Reflection at the Plasma-Vacuum Interface......Page 247
Energetic Proton and Deuteron Generation from a Microporous Polytetrafluoroethylene Film with Deuterated Polystyrene Using a 2.4-TW Table-Top Laser......Page 250
High-Energy Protons Emitted from a Polymer-Coated Metal foil by 60-fs Laser Irradiation......Page 253
Estimation of Proton Source Size Generated by Ultraintense Laser Pulses Using a Thomson Mass Spectrometer......Page 256
Part III: Ultrafast Dynamics in Solid 1 (Phonon and Exciton)......Page 259
Imaging Nanostructures with Picosecond Ultrasonic Pulses......Page 260
Ultrahigh Frequency Acoustic Phonon Generation and Spectroscopy with Deathstar Pulse Shaping......Page 265
Probing of Thermo-Acoustic Transients in Materials Using EUV Radiation......Page 268
Ultrafast Dynamics of Coherent Electron-Phonon Interaction in Silicon......Page 271
Generation of Coherent Zone Boundary Phonons by Impulsive Excitation of Molecules......Page 274
Amplitude Collapse-Revival of Chirped Coherent Phonons under High-Density Optical Excitation......Page 277
Intense Coherent Optical Phonons Driven by Impulsive Excitonic Interference under Electric Fields......Page 280
Phonon-Polariton Based THz Spectroscopy......Page 283
Excitonic Quantum Beats Dressed with Coherent Phonons......Page 286
Evidence of Higher-Order Nonlinearities in Excitonic FWM Signals in Microscopic Theory and Experiment......Page 289
Ultrafast Anisotropic Processes of Exciton Magnetic Polarons in CdTe/CdMnTe Quantum Wires......Page 292
Time-Resolved Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Excitons in Cu[sub(2)]O......Page 295
Exciton Dynamics in Pentacene and Tetracene Studied Using Optical Pump-Probe Spectroscopy......Page 298
Dephasing Suppression of Excitons in Semiconductors......Page 301
Dynamical Stark Effect of Excitons in Cu[sub(2)]O by Resonant Pulsed Excitation of the 1s-2p Transition......Page 304
Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration and Exciton Regeneration at Polymeric Semiconductor Heterojunctions......Page 307
Exciton Diffusion Dynamics in an Organic Semiconductor Nanostructure......Page 310
Part IV: Ultrafast Dynamics in Solid 2......Page 313
Carrier-Envelope Phase Controlled Quantum Interference in a Semiconductor......Page 314
Phase-Resolved Nonlinear Response of Modulation-Doped Quantum Wells under Femtosecond Intersubband Excitation......Page 319
Ultrafast Intersubband Relaxation and Carrier Cooling in GaN/AlN Multiple Quantum Wells......Page 322
Polaritonics in Complex Structures: Confinement, Bandgap Materials, and Coherent Control......Page 325
Detection of Four-Wave Mixing Signal from Single Layer Quantum Dots......Page 328
Wavepacket Interferometry and Wavepacket Dynamics in Condensed Phase......Page 331
Femtosecond Wavepacket Dynamics of Potassium Adsorbate on Pt (111)......Page 334
Control of Tunnel Ionization in Molecules by Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses With Time-Dependent Polarization......Page 337
Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Dynamics in the Colossal Magnetoresistance Pyrochlore TI[sub(2)]Mn[sub(2)]O[sub(7)]......Page 340
Femto-Magnetism Visualized in Three Dimensions......Page 343
Photo-Induced Demagnetization Observed by Time-Resolved Mid-Infared Transmittance Spectroscopy in Ga[sub(0.94)]Mn[sub(0.06)]As......Page 346
Optically Induced Magnetization and Ultrafast Spin Dynamics of Magnetic Ions in Ionic Crystals......Page 349
Dynamic Coupling-Decoupling Crossover in the Current-Driven Vortex-State in TI[sub(2)]Ba[sub(2)]CaCu[sub(2)]O[sub(8)] Studied Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy......Page 352
Ultrafast Light Induced Charge Disordering Around Phase Transition Temperature in 2D Spin Ladder Compound NaV[sub(2)]O[sub(5)]......Page 355
Correlation of the Electronic Transitions in Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes......Page 358
Ultrafast Radial Transport in a Micron-Scale Aluminum Plasma Excited at Relativistic Intensity......Page 361
Chirp Control of Free Carrier Dynamics in GaAs......Page 364
Ultrafast Insulator-to-Metal Switching by Photoinduced Mott Transition......Page 367
Femtosecond Near Edge X-Ray Absorption Measurement of the VO[sub(2)] Phase Transition......Page 370
Phase Transition in Strongly-Correlated VO[sub(2)]: Time-Domain Assignment of Cause and Effect......Page 373
Polarization-Dependent Phenomenon Induced by the Interaction between Focused Femtosecond Laser and Transparent Materials......Page 376
Investigation on the Parameters of Dense Electronic Plasma Induced by Femtosecond Laser in Fused Silica......Page 381
Dynamical Symmetry Breaking Induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses in KTaO[sub(3)]......Page 384
Part V: Ultrafast Dynamics in Solution......Page 387
Sub-20-fs Study of Energy Relaxation in carotenoids in solution and inside light harvesting complexes......Page 388
Energy Flow in Carotenoids, Studied With Pump-Deplete-Probe, Multiphoton and Coherent Control Spectroscopy......Page 393
Amplitude Spectra of Molecular Vibration Modes in Phthalocyanine: Comparison with Raman Excitation Profile......Page 396
Real Time Tracking of the Peaks in Transition Difference Spectra During Vibrational Periods in PDA......Page 399
Time-Resolved CARS Studies of Vibrational Coherences in the Condensed Phase: I[sub(2)] in Solid Krypton......Page 402
Measurement of Conical Intersection Dynamics by Impulsive Femtosecond Polarization Spectroscopy......Page 405
Vibrational Phase Characterization in Femtosecond-Pumped Molecules by Path-Length Modulation......Page 408
Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Water-Acetonitrile Mixtures......Page 411
Cascaded Energy Redistribution upon O-H Stretching Excitation in an Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond......Page 414
Pure Intermolecular Energy Relaxation of the OH Bending Vibration of Water Molecules Dissolved in Organic Liquids......Page 417
Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of an Azobenzene Derivative with a Small S[sub(1)]–S[sub(2)] Energy Gap......Page 420
Photo-Thermalization Dynamics of Azulene in Supercritical Fluids Studied by the Transient Grating Method......Page 423
Vibrational Self-Trapping in an α-Helix......Page 426
Infrared Photon-Echo Spectroscopy of Water: the Thermalization Effects......Page 429
Heterodyne 2D-IR Photon Echo Spectroscopy of Multi-Level OH Stretching Coherences in Hydrogen Bonds......Page 432
A Unified Analysis of Ultrafast Vibrational and Orientational Dynamics of HOD in D[sub(2)]O......Page 435
Time Resolved Direct Probing of the Change in the Local Solvent Response Following Excitation of a Solute......Page 438
Surface Femtochemistry: Photocatalytic Reaction Dynamics of Methanol/TiO[sub(2)](110)......Page 441
Three Pulse Four Wave Mixing for the Study of Coherent Interactions, Nuclear Dynamics and Solvation Dynamics in Liquids......Page 444
Solvation Dynamics of N-Methylacetamide in D[sub(2)]O, CDCI[sub(3)], and DMSO-d[sub(6)]......Page 447
Femtosecond Pump-Probe Measurements of Solvation Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bonding Complexes in Non-Associating Solvents......Page 450
Novel Time- and Frequency-Resolved Double Pump Spectroscopy of Short-Lived Precursors: The Solvated Electron in Methanol......Page 453
Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy on Aqueous Reverse-Micellar Nano-Droplets......Page 456
Pump-Probe Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Molecular Aggregates Using Supercontinuum......Page 459
Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation Dynamics of Anions in Reverse Micelles by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy......Page 462
Part VI: Reaction Dynamics in Solution......Page 465
Femtochemistry in the Electronic Groundstate? IR-Driven Cis-Trans Isomerization of HONO......Page 466
Bimodal Intermolecular Proton Transfer in Acid-Base Neutralization Reactions in Water......Page 471
Ultrafast Excitation Energy Migration Processes in Various Porphyrin Arrays......Page 476
Energy Transfer in Phenylene Ethynylene Dendrimers......Page 479
A 40-fs Time-Resolved Absorption Study of Cis-Stilbene in Solution: Observation of Coherent Nuclear Wavepacket Motion in Reactive Excited State......Page 482
Monitoring an Ultrafast Photo-Isomerization by Femtosecond Fluorescence, Absorption, and IR Spectroscopy......Page 485
From Ultrafast Spectroscopy to Bidirectional Molecular Switches: DHA/VHF......Page 488
Ultrafast Intramolecular Electron Transfer of 9,9’-Bianthryl as Studied by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Near-Infrared Absorption and Anisotropy in the 950–1500 nm Region......Page 491
Real-Time Spectroscopy of Charge-Transfer Excitation in Phthalocyanine Tin Dichloride......Page 494
Coherent Nuclear Dynamics Coupled with Electron Transfer Reaction in Porphyrin-Ferrocence Dyads......Page 497
Subpicosecond Pulse Radiolysis Study on Geminate Ion Recombination Process in n-Dodecane......Page 502
Fast Spin Dynamics of Optically Induced Magnetization in Aqueous Solutions of Magnetic Ions......Page 505
Vibrational Excitation and Energy Redistribution after Ultrafast Intramolecular Proton Transfer of TINUVIN......Page 508
Coherent Nuclear Motion in Reacting Molecules: Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Proton Transfer in Solution......Page 511
Ultrafast Double Proton Transfer: Symmetry Breaking Wavepacket Motion and Absence of Deuterium Isotope Effect......Page 514
Photodissociation Dynamics Studied via Time-Resolved Coincidence Imaging Spectroscopy......Page 519
Femtosecond Photo-Induced Dissociation of the Trihalide Anions I[sub(3)][sup(–)] and I[sub(2)]Br[sup(–)] in Solution......Page 522
Coherent Control of Non-Radiative Transitions: Long-Range Electron Transfer......Page 525
Teaching Lasers To Twist Molecules......Page 528
Quantum Control of a Chiral Molecular Motor Driven by Linearly Polarized Laser Pulses......Page 531
Numerical Synthesis of Optimal Laser Pulses for Manipulating Dissociation Wave Packets of I[sub(2)][sup(–)] in Water......Page 534
Molecular State Reconstruction by Nonlinear Wave Packet Interferometry......Page 537
Femtosecond Coherent Spectroscopic Study of Zn(II) Porphyrin by Chirping-Controlled Ultrashort Pulses......Page 540
Phase Analysis of Vibrational Wavepackets in the Ground and the Excited States in Polydiacetylene......Page 543
Calculating Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Signals from Molecules in Cryogenic Matrices......Page 546
Real-Time Observation of Phase-Controlled Vibrational Wave-Packets in Iodine Molecules......Page 549
Single-Shot Transient Absorption of I[sub(3)][sup(–)] in Solutions and Glasses......Page 552
Part VII: Multiview and Multi-Dimensional Spectroscopy......Page 555
Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonds in Water: Vibrational Echoes and Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy......Page 556
Dual-Frequency 2D IR Photon Echo of a Hydrogen Bond......Page 560
2D-IR Spectroscopy of Transient Species......Page 563
Resolving Conformations of Acetylproline-NH[sub(2)] by Coherent 2D IR Spectroscopy......Page 566
Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Rotaxanes......Page 569
Thermal Denaturing of Proteins: Equilibrium and Transient Studies Using Nonlinear Infrared Probes......Page 572
Two-Dimensional Optical Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Molecular Complexes......Page 575
Two-Dimensional Measurement of the Solvent Intermolecular Response in Solvation......Page 578
Two-Dimensional Femtosecond Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy Using a Chirped Supercontinuum Generated from a Photonic Crystal Fiber......Page 581
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy by Spectrally Resolved Real-Time Resonant Coherent Raman Scattering in Polydiacetylene......Page 584
Optical Two-Dimensional Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Wells......Page 587
Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy Based on Two Dimensional Pulse Shaping......Page 590
Propagation and Detection Distortions of Four-Wave Mixing Signals: Application to 2D Spectroscopy......Page 593
Fourier Transform Measurement of Two-Photon Excitation Spectra: Applications to Microscopy and Quantum Control......Page 596
Part VIII: Biology......Page 599
Watching Proteins Function with Picosecond Time-Resolved X-Ray Crystallography......Page 600
Energy Transfer Pathways in Photosystem I Studied by One and Two Color Photon Echo spectroscopy......Page 605
Dynamics of Carotenoids Probed by Femtosecond Absorption, Fluorescence, and Raman Spectroscopy......Page 608
Multi-Pulse Transient Absorption and Carotenoid Excited-State Dynamics: β-Carotene......Page 611
Observation and Control of All-Trans-β-Carotene Wavepacket Motion Using Pump-Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing......Page 614
Vibrational and Electronic Coherence Observed in Two-Dimensional Integrated Three-Pulse Photon Echo......Page 617
Photon Echo Study of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Strength in Molecules and Molecular Aggregates......Page 620
Time and Frequency Domain Investigations on Ultrafast Photoisomerization Reaction Dynamics of PYP......Page 623
Entire View of Coherent Oscillations in Ultrafast Fluorescence for Photoactive Yellow Protein......Page 626
Ultrafast Excited and Ground-State Isomerization Dynamics of the Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore in Solution......Page 629
Optimal Control of Femtosecond Photoisomerization of Retinal in Rhodopsin: Effects of Conical Intersections......Page 632
Ultrafast Polarization and Vibrational Motions in Bacteriorhodopsin Studied by Coherent Infrared Emission Spectroscopy......Page 635
Excited-State Dynamics of the 1Bu[sup(+)], 3Ag[sup(–)], and 1Bu[sup(–)] States in All-Trans-Spirilloxanthin as Revealed by Sub-5-fs Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy......Page 638
Ultrafast Relaxation Inside Proteins: Calculation and Measurement of Electron-Vibration Coupling in Enzymes......Page 641
Direct Observations of Ligand Rebinding Trajectories in Myoglobin by Femtosecond Mid-IR Spectroscopy......Page 644
Coherent Vibrational Climbing in Carboxy-Hemoglobin......Page 647
Evidence for Non-Separating Four-Point Correlation Functions From IR Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of CO in a Protein Internal Cavity......Page 650
The CO Oscillator as a Probe of Ligand Dissociation Dynamics in Myoglobin......Page 653
A 2DIR Study of Backbone Structure and Dynamics of a Dipeptide in Membrane......Page 656
Engineering Cost Function for Optimizing Coherent Control between Processes with Different Nonlinearities......Page 659
Part IX: Ultrafast Nanostructure Photonics and Plasmon......Page 662
Imaging of Localized Silver Plasmon Dynamics with Sub-fs Time and Nano-Meter Spatial Resolution......Page 663
Ultrafast Dynamics of Light Transmission through Plasmonic Crystals......Page 668
Ultrafast Near-Field Microscope Imaging of Electron and Phonon Relaxation in Single Gold Nanoparticle......Page 673
Plasmon Enhanced Ultrafast Optical Transmission in Metallic Nano-Arrays......Page 676
Excitation and Propagation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Metallic Periodic Structures......Page 679
Ultrafast Dynamics of Periodic Arrays of Holes in a Gold Film......Page 682
Surface Plasmon Assisted 26 fs, 0.4 keV Electron Pulse Generation......Page 685
Space-Time Control in Ultrafast Nano-Optics......Page 688
Coherent Control of Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Nanostructures......Page 691
SPASER as Ultrafast Nanoscale Phenomenon and Device......Page 694
Ultrafast Quenching of the Ring Closure in Molecular Switches, Self-Assembled on Gold Nanoparticles......Page 697
Part X: Terahertz Wave and Applications......Page 700
Temporal Spectroscopic Behavior of Terahertz Pulses Transmitted through Metal Hole Arrays......Page 701
Surface-Plasmon-Polariton Enhanced Tunneling of THz Radiation through Arrays of Sub-Wavelength Apertures......Page 706
Terahertz Access to the Nanoworld......Page 709
Terahertz Surface Plasmon Polariton Coupling on Metallic Grating Structures......Page 712
Control of THz Transmission through Two-Dimensional Metallic Photonic Crystals......Page 715
Teflon Photonic Crystal Fiber as Polarization-Preserving Waveguide in THz Region......Page 718
Generation of Coherent Tunable THz Waves by Using Birefringent Crystal and Grating Pair......Page 721
Ultra-Wide Bandwidth THz Emission from a Semiconductor Irradiated with Intense, Radially Polarized, Bessel-Gauss Pulses......Page 724
Mechanism Crossover of Terahertz Radiation from InAs Surface Induced by a Magnetic Field at High Density Excitation......Page 727
Transient Grating Generation and Waveform Shaping of Free-Space Propagating, Picosecond, Narrow-Band THz Radiation......Page 730
Typesetting THz Waveforms......Page 733
Magnetically Induced Evolution of Terahetz Radiation Spectrum Emitted from InAs up to 27T......Page 736
A Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter with a Tuning Range of Over 360 Degrees around 1 THz......Page 739
Cooper Pair Breaking Dynamics in MgB[sub(2)] Using Optical-Pump Terahertz-Probe Spectroscopy......Page 742
Femtosecond Formation of Phonon-Plasmon Coupled Modes Studied by Ultrabroadband THz Spectrocopy......Page 745
Solid-State Phase Transition Onset Detection in Estrogen-Like Chemical via Terahertz Transmission Spectroscopy......Page 748
Maximum Entropy Method for Misplacement Phase Error Correction in Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy......Page 751
Pulsed Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging Applied to Inspection of Explosives and Inflammable Liquids......Page 754
Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Semiconductor Surfaces......Page 757
Evaluation of Complex Optical Constants of Semiconductor Wafers Using Terahertz Ellipsometry......Page 760
Terahertz Two-Dimensional Spectroscopic Imaging with a High Speed CMOS Camera......Page 763
Single-Shot Terahertz Imaging......Page 766
Ultrabroadband Detection of Multi-THz Field Transients with GaSe Electro-Optic Sensors......Page 769
Tetahertz Field Detection beyond 30 THz by Proton-Bombarded InP Photoconductive Antennas......Page 772
THz Wave Near-Field Emission Microscope......Page 775
Part XI: Optoelectronics and Other Applications......Page 778
Optimization of a 40 GHz Regeneratively and Harmonically Mode-Locked Fiber Laser under PLL Operation and its Longitudinal Mode Characteristics......Page 779
Femtosecond Synchronization of RF-Signals with Optical Pulse Trains......Page 782
Fast Photo-Induced Phase Switching in Organic Conductor Crystal; (EDO-TTF)[sub(2)]PF[sub(6)]......Page 785
Molecular Phase-to-Amplitude Converter Using Femtosecond Wave Packet Engineering......Page 788
Femtosecond Pulse Recoding and Regeneration by a Two-Photon Gated Periodic Diffractive Optics......Page 791
Linewidth and RIN Measurements of Longitudinal Modes in Ultrahigh-Speed Mode-Locked Laser Diodes......Page 794
Charge Generation in Inorganic/Organic Photovoltaic Blends......Page 797
Enhanced Polariton Decay in LiNbO[sub(3)] Due to Stimulated Emission of Acoustic Phonons......Page 800
Ultrafast Electrooptic Deflector Using Quasi-Velocity-Matching......Page 803
Ultrafast Control of a Surface Plasmon Resonance via the Insulator to Metal Transition in VO[sub(2)] Nanoparticles......Page 806
External Generation of Flat Power-Envelope THz Modulation Sidebands from a CW Laser Based on an Electrooptic Phase Modulator......Page 809
Part XII: Microfabrication by Femtosecond Laser Pulses......Page 812
3D Photonic Devices Fabricated in Glass by a Femtosecond Oscillator......Page 813
Writing of Photonic Devices and Waveguide Lasers by a Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Oscillator......Page 816
Toward the Fabrication of Hybrid Polymer/Metal Three-Dimensional Microstructures......Page 819
Production of 3D, Dichroitic Microstructures in Nanocomposite Glasses by Femtosecond Laser Pulses......Page 822
Micrometer and Sub-Micrometer Structures Fabrication and Analysis with Femtosecond Laser Micro-Nanomachining System......Page 825
Femtosecond Laser Effects on Osseous Tissues......Page 828
Femtosecond Laser Material Processing: How short is short?......Page 831
Diode-Pumped Cr[sup(3+)]:LiCAF Laser for Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography......Page 834
Time-Resolved Electron Imaging of Femtosecond Laser Ablation......Page 837
Part XIII: Frequency Stabilization and Ultrawide Frequency Comb......Page 840
A New Ultrastable Cesium Optical Atomic Clock with a 9.1926-GHz Regeneratively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser......Page 841
Frequency Transfer of Optical Standards Through a Fiber Network Using 1550-nm Mode-Locked Sources......Page 844
Femtosecond Laser Optical Frequency Synthesizers with Uncertainty at the 10[sup(–19)] Level......Page 847
Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs with Linewidths at the 1-Hz Level......Page 850
Frequency Metrology with a Turnkey All-Fiber System......Page 853
Optical Frequency Measurement Precision of Femtosecond Laser Optical Comb System and the Stability of its HF Reference Frequency......Page 856
Evaluation of Oscillation Frequency Stability of a Diode Laser Using a fs Laser Optical Comb......Page 859
Part XIV: Coherent Control and Other Topics......Page 862
Coherent Cooling of Molecular Vibrational Motion with Laser-Induced Dipole Forces......Page 863
Molecular Orientation of CH[sub(3)]F Induced by Phase-Controlled Lights......Page 866
Observation and Manipulation of Quantum Interferences in Ladder Climbing......Page 869
Adaptive Polarization Control of Molecular Dynamics......Page 872
Two-Photon Absorption Imaging with Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses......Page 875
Selective Two-Photon Functional Imaging through Scattering Media Based on Binary Phase Shaping......Page 878
Photon Number Squeezing of Ultrabroadband Pulses Generated by Microstructure Fibers......Page 881
Real-Time, Ultrahigh-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography at 1.5 μm using a Femtosecond Fiber Laser Continuum......Page 884
Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Organic Nanotubes......Page 887
Ultrafast Molecule to Semiconductor Electron Transfer via Different Anchor Groups in Ultra-High Vacuum......Page 890
Controllability in Dissociative Ionization of Organic Molecules with Pulse-Shaped Intense Laser Fields......Page 893
Laser Coulomb Explosion Imaging for Probing Molecular Structure and Dynamics......Page 896
Ultrafast Electron Transfer via a Bridge-Extended Donor Orbital......Page 899
Multiple Ionization of Atoms by 25 and 7 fs Laser Pulses......Page 902
Time Resolved, Phase-Matched Harmonic Generation from Exploding Noble Gas Clusters......Page 905
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H......Page 909
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N......Page 911
R......Page 912
U......Page 913
Z......Page 914