Ultrafast Phenomena XII

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIII

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2. Coherent Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Odyssey of Kent Wilson: Holding Molecules in the Light

      • Dudley Herschbach

      Pages 3-9

   3. The Kent Wilson Group in the 1990s

      • Bern Kohler

      Pages 10-13

   4. Algorithms for Closed Loop Ultrafast Control of Quantum Dynamics

      • Herschel Rabitz

      Pages 14-18

   5. Control of Quantum Dynamics by Adaptive Femtosecond Pulse Shaping

      • M. Bergt, T. Brixner, B. Kiefer, M. Strehle, G. Gerber

      Pages 19-23

   6. Optimal control of two-photon transitions: bright and dark femtosecond pulses designed by a self-learning algorithm

      • T. Hornung, R. Meier, D. Zeidler, K.-L. Kompa, D. Proch, M. Motzkus

      Pages 24-26

   7. Feedback optimization of molecular states using a parameterization in frequency and time domain

      • T. Hornung, R. Meier, M. Motzkus

      Pages 27-29

   8. Controlling and Probing Impulsively Induced Ground State Vibrational Dynamics

      • Erez Gershgoren, Sanford Ruhman, Jiri Vala, Ronnie Kosloff

      Pages 30-32

   9. Dynamics and Coherent Control of Condensed Phase Vibrational Coherences

      • Valeria D. Kleiman, Dale McMorrow, Joseph S. Melinger

      Pages 33-35

   10. Spatiotemporal Coherent Control

       • Richard M. Koehl, Keith A. Nelson

       Pages 36-38

   11. Coherent Control and Nonlinear Interactions of Semiconductor Cavity Polaritons

       • Y.-S. Lee, A. V. Maslov, D. S. Citrin, T. B. Norris

       Pages 39-41

   12. Coherent Control of XUV Radiation

       • Randy Bartels, Sterling Backus, Ivan Christov, Lino Misoguti, Gleb Vdovin, Erik Zeek et al.

       Pages 42-44

   13. Enhancement of Kα yield from femtosecond laser produced plasmas by automated control of plasma parameters

       • Christian Ziener, Ingo Uschmann, Gregor Stobrawa, Thomas Feurer, Heinrich Schwoerer, Roland Sauerbrey

       Pages 45-47

3. Lasers for Ultrashort Pulses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Challenges and Limitations on Generating Few Cycle Laser Pulses directly from Oscillators

      • F.X. Kärtner, U. Morgner, R. Ell, Ch. Jirauschek, G. Metzler, T. R. Schibli et al.

      Pages 51-55

   3. Extremely Flexible and Accurate Chirp Compensation for 75-MHz Repetitive Glass Fiber Output of a More-Than 100-THz Bandwidth -- Generation of a-Few-Optical-Cycle Transform-Limited Pulses--

      • Shinki Nakamura, Liming Li, Naoki Karasawa, Ryuji Morita, Hidemi Shigekawa, Mikio Yamashita

      Pages 56-58

   4. 14-fs Pulses at 1.3-µm Generated from an All-Solid-State Cr:Forsterite Laser

      • C. Chudoba, J. G. Fujimoto, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, U. Morgner, F.X. Kärtner et al.

      Pages 59-61

   5. Smooth dispersion compensation: novel chirped mirrors with suppressed dispersion oscillations

      • L. Gallmann, N. Matuschek, D. H. Sutter, V. Scheuer, G. Angelow, T. Tschudi et al.

      Pages 62-64

   6. Dispersion Management over one Octave with Tilted-Front-Interface Chirped Mirrors

      • Gabriel Tempea, Ferenc Krausz

      Pages 65-67

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena held at Charleston, SC, from July 9 to 13, 2000. The Ultrafast Phenomena Conferences are held every two years and provide a forum for discussion of the latest results in ultrafast optics and their applications in science and engineering. A total of more than 200 papers was presented, reporting progress in the technology of generating and characterizing ultrashort pulses, including new techniques for shortening the duration of laser pulses, for stabilizing their absolute phase, and for improving tunability over broad wavelength ranges, output powers and peak intensities. Ultrafast spectroscopy, including techniques like time-resolved X-ray diffrac­ tion and two-dimensional spectroscopy, continues to give new insights into fundamental processes in physics, chemistry and biology. Control and opti­ mization of the outcome of ultrafast processes represent another important field of research. There is an increasing number of applications of ultrafast techniques, for instance in material diagnostics and processing and in imag­ ing and microscopy. The enthusiasm of the participants, among them many students, the high quality of the papers and the nice conference site made the conference successful and pleasant.

• Ultrasort light pulses
• cluster
• femtochemistry
• femtosecond spectroscopy
• high-field physics
• laser
• molecule
• optics
• optoelectronics
• spectroscopy
• x-ray lasers

 "Contains a vast amount of valuable information for specialists. Such a diverse range of topics will include something of interest for everyone. At the same time, the book represents the state of the art in this fast-growing area of research. I would certainly recommend it to students entering the field who want to work at the forefront of modern science."

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• Max-Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin, Germany

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• Chemistry Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA

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• University of Colorado JILA, Boulder, USA

  M. M. Murnane

• Chemistry Department, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

  N. F. Scherer

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