Picosecond Phenomena: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Picosecond Phenomena. Hilton Head, South Carolina, Usa, May 24-26

ISBN-13: 9783642671005 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2011 / 362 str.

C. V. Shank; E. P. Ippen; S. L. Shapiro

Opis

The first international conference devoted to Picosecond Phenomena was held 1ay 24-26,1978 in Hilton Head, South Carolina. After more than a decade of active research, this conference brought together scientists from widely varying disciplines who shared a common interest in studying 'ultrafast processes. It was organized as a Topical Meeting of the Optical Society of America and attracted 187 registered participants. The conference reviewed current progress in experimental and theoreti cal understanding of phenomena that occur on a picosecond timescale. A recent upsurge of interest has developed because of the sudden availability of sophisticated and more powerful techniques. Consequently, the conference attracted chemists, physicists, biologists and engineers who had the opportunity to learn of the new and significant results in rapidly ad vancing areas. The enthusiasm of the scientists, the high quality of the research presented, and the attractive surroundings combined to produce a thoroughly successful and enjoyable conference. 1any people helped to make the conference so successful. Special thanks are due to Drs. Jarus Quinn and Jon Hagen, and their colleagues at the Optical Society of America for their vital assistance in smoothly imple menting the meeting arrangements, and to the program committee for their advice and efforts. He gratefully acknowledge the financial support from our sponsors that allowed the conference to be more productive and more complete."

Spis treści

I. Interactions in Liquids and Molecules.- Dynamic Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules with Tunable Picosecond Pulses.- A New Technique for Measurement of Raman Dephasing Dynamics and Recent Advances in cw Mode-Locked Dye Lasers.- Picosecond Vibrational and Electronic Relaxation Processes in Molecules.- The Excited State Absorption Kinetics of Quinoxaline in Room Temperature Solution.- A Novel Technique for Monitoring Transient Optical Phenomena on a Picosecond Time Scale.- Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Subpicosecond States in Liquids.- Picosecond Laser Studies of Electron-Hole Interactions and Double Proton Transfer.- Polydiacetylenes, A Promising Material for Nonlinear Optics with Picosecond Pulses.- Short Pulse Absorption Spectroscopy of Nitromethane Photolysis.- II. Poster Session.- Singlet Exciton Interactions in Crystalline Naphthalene.- Intramolecular Lineshape Narrowing in the Overtone Spectrum of Benzene.- Kinetics of the Sensitized Fluorescence of Anthracene-Doped Naphthalene Following Two-Photon Picosecond-Pulse Excitation.- Picosecond Gain Kinetics of 1,4-Bis (2-Methylstyryl) Benzene.- Evidence for Nearly Transform-Limited Pulses from a Short Cavity Blue Dye Laser.- Applications of the Mode Locked Near UV Output from a Krypton Ion Laser in Chemical Analysis.- Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Rhodamine Dyes.- III. Sources and Techniques.- Anti-Stokes Emission as a VUV and Soft X-Ray Source.- Picosecond Phase Shift Measurements at 358 MHz Using Synchrotron Radiation.- High Power, Nearly Band-width Limited, Tunable Picosecond Pulses in the Visible and Infrared.- Sub-Picosecond Optical Gating and Wavefront Conjugation.- Parametric Study of Double Mode-Locking of the cw Dye Laser.- Subpicosecond Spectroscopy.- Synchronized Ultra-Short Pulse Generation and Streak-camera Measurement with cw Mode-Locked Lasers.- Picosecond Pulse Generation with a cw GaAlAs Laser Diode.- Investigation of the Parameters Affecting Subpicosecond Pulse Durations in Passively Mode Locked Dye Lasers.- Measurements of Polarization Relaxation in Materials Using Synchronously Mode-Locked Dye Lasers.- IV. Biological Processes.- Picosecond Studies of Electron Transfer in Bacterial Photosynthesis and in Model Systems.- Primary Photosynthesis Selectively Excited by Tunable Picosecond Parametric Oscillator.- Light Collection and Exciton Dynamics in Photosynthetic Membranes.- Fluorescence and Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis.- Picosecond Research of Some Biomolecules (Bacteriorhodopsin, Bacteriochlorophyll and Bases of DNA).- The Use of Resonant Light Scattering as a Probe of Picosecond and Subpicosecond Relaxation and Dephasing Times in the Excited State.- V. Poster Session.- Picosecond Optical Absorption at 1.06 ?m and 1.55 ?m in Thin Germanium Samples at High Optically-Created Carrier Densities.- Advantages of Planar Streak Camera in Picosecond Recording.- Design for Ultrafast Electrical Switching.- Small Area Metal-Oxide-Metal Junctions as Picosecond Photoemissive Detectors.- VI. Coherent Techniques and Molecules.- Picosecond Coherent Transients in Molecular Mixed Crystals.- Nonlinear Optical Techniques for Probing Dephasing of Molecules and Excitons: Nano and Picosecond Dynamics.- Optical Coherent Transients by Laser Frequency Switching: Subnanosecond Studies.- Rise in Time of dc Electric-Field Induced Optical Rectification and Second Harmonic Generation in Liquids.- Picosecond Molecular Dynamics in Liquids and Electron Localization.- Collisionless Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation in SF6.- Resonant Rayleigh-Type Mixing Spectroscopy Using a Picosecond Dye Laser System.- VII. Solids.- Picosecond Luminescence Spectroscopy of Highly Photo-Excited Semiconductors.- Picosecond Absorption Spectroscopy of Direct Semiconductors.- Fast Laser Excitations in VO2 at the Semiconducting-Metallic Phase Transition.- Energy Transport in Molecular Solids: Application of the Picosecond Transient Grating Technique.- Ultrafast Processes in the Optical Response of an Electron-Hole Plasma in Germanium.- Time-Resolved Induced Absorption Due to Exciton-Biexciton Transitions in CuCl.- Broadly Tunable, Repetitive Picosecond Laser System and Its Application to Spectroscopy.- Dynamic Emission Spectroscopy Under Resonant Two Photon Absorption in Cucl and CuBr.- VIII. High-Power Lasers and Plasmas.- Saturation Effects in Fifth Harmonic Generation of Coherent XUV Radiation.- Picosecond Diagnostics of CO2 Laser Produced Plasmas.- The Regenerative Amplifier: A Source for Synchronized, Variable-Duration Pulses.- Resonant Multiphoton Ionization of Cesium Atoms by Ultrashort Laser Pulses at 1.06 ym.- Intense Picosecond Electrostatic Fields in Laser Generated Plasma.- Picosecond Interferometry of Laser Fusion Targets.- Development of an Actively Modelocked and Q-Switched Oscillator for Laser Fusion Program at LLL..- Generation and Amplification of Short 10 ?m Pulses.- IX. Postdeadline Papers.- Measurement of Singlet Lifetimes by Upper State Fluorescence Excitation.- Picosecond Studies of Excited State Proton Transfer Reactions: The Laser pH Jump.- Measurement of Surface Recombination Velocity in Semiconductors by Diffraction from Picosecond Transient Free Carrier Gratings.- On the Excited State Energy Surface of Rhodopsin and Bacteriorhodopsin.- Picosecond Self-Induced Transparency and Photon Echoes in Sodium Vapor.- Picosecond Spectroscopic Study on Excimer Formation in Solution and in Crystalline Phase.- Characterization and Application of a Combined Picosecond Streak Camera, Silicon-Intensified-Target Vidicon, and Image Analyzer System.- List of Participants.