Based on a NATO Advanced Summer Institute, this volume discusses physical models, mathematical formalisms, experimental techniques, and applications for ultrafast dynamics of quantum systems. These systems are used in laser optics, spectroscopy, and utilize monochromaticity, spectral brightness, coherence, power density, and tunability of laser sources.
Author(s): Baldassare di Bartolo
Edition: 1
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 740
Prelminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
Linear and Nonlinear Propagation of Short Light Pulses......Page 14
Time Resolved Molecular Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics......Page 86
Femtosecond Dynamics of Molecular Reactions at Metal Surfaces......Page 100
Some Selected Aspects of Light-Matter Interaction in Solids......Page 156
Femtosecond Pulse Generation: Principles and Fiber Applications......Page 225
Laser Sources for Ultrafast Spectroscopy......Page 244
Phonons and Electron-Phonons Interaction in Semiconductors and High-Tc Superconductors......Page 267
Surface Phonons and Their Role in Ultrafast Phenomena......Page 304
Dielectric Description of Matter: From Maxwell- to Semiconductor Bloch-Equations......Page 331
Coherent Dynamics in Semiconductors......Page 365
Quasiparticles and Quasimomentum......Page 388
On the Equivalence of Coupled Pendula and Quantum Mechanical Non-Crossing Rule......Page 404
Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy and Optical Control......Page 414
Hot Luminescence and Fast Relaxation of Optical Centers in Solids......Page 495
Jahn-Teller Driven Movements of Excited Ions in Crystals......Page 513
Recent Results in Multiphonon Non-Radiative Processes and in Novel Materials and Amplifiers......Page 534
NASA’s DIAL/Lidar Laser Technology Development Program......Page 549
Applications of Ultrafast Spectroscopy to Solid State Laser Materials......Page 557
Ultrafast Electron-Lattice Relaxation of Optically Excited Centers in Crystals......Page 572
Laser Crystal Emitting from UV to IR and the Impact of Nonlinear Optics......Page 586
Nonperturbative Upconversion Techniques: Ultrafast Meets X–ray......Page 613
Nonlinear Interactions in Insulating Laser Crystals under Femtosecond and Picosecond Excitation......Page 626
Unification in Particle Physics: Symmetries and Hidden Dimensions......Page 658
Measurements with an Optically Gated Scanning Tunneling Microscope......Page 674
Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Deep Emissions from Large Band Gap Semiconductors......Page 675
Chemical Dynamics of Uni- and Bimolecular Reactions Studied with Non-Linear Optical Techniques in the Femtosecond Time Domain......Page 676
Optical Spectroscopy on Single Molecules in Solids......Page 677
Nanoscopic Interactions Probed by Single Molecule Spectroscopy......Page 678
Fluorescence Intensity and Anisotropy Decay Measurements in the Frequency Domain......Page 679
Non-Destructive Optical Characterization of InxGal-x As Epitaxial Layer Composition Thickness and Optical Quality......Page 680
Optical Homogeneous Linewidth in Amorphous Solids in the Framework of the Soft Potential Model......Page 681
Raman Shifted Laser Crystals with X3 Nonlinearity: Tungstate and Molybdate......Page 682
Luminescence Quantum Efficiency in CdSSe Mixed Crystals......Page 683
Luminescence and Afterglow in CsI:Tl......Page 684
Position Sensitive Time of Flight Spectrometry of Molecules......Page 685
Probing Exciton Distributions in Semiconductor Quantum Layers......Page 686
Light Induced Molecular Structure in H2+......Page 687
Time Resolved Spin Relaxation in III-V Semiconductor Quantum Wells......Page 688
Analysis of the 4fN Energy Level Structure of the RE3+ Ions in RE Oxyhalides......Page 689
Temperature Dependence of Near Infrared to Visible Upconversion Luminescence of Er3+ in YSGG......Page 690
Quantum Confinement in Porous Silicon in the Effective-Mass Limit......Page 691
Ultrashort Laser Pulses Measurements by Means of Self Diffraction in Polydispersed Liquid Crystals......Page 692
Optical Near-Field Measurements on a Single Gold Nanoparticle......Page 693
Single-Atom Conditional Manipulation of Confined Quantized Electromagnetic Field......Page 694
Iterative Nonideal Conditional Generation of Nonclassical Cavity Field......Page 695
Multiple Branching of Vectorial Spatial Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Quadratic Media......Page 696
Relaxation Dynamics of Localized Excitons in ZnSe-ZnSSe Strained-Layer Superlattices......Page 697
Identification of Several Energy Transfer Pathways in the Light-Harvesting Complex II of Green Plants Using Current Structural and Spectroscopic Information......Page 698
Transient and Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning in CuBr Semiconductor Quantum Dots......Page 699
Multiphoton Excitation of GaN Using Picosecond Pulses......Page 700
0.94 μm Spectroscopy and Laser Development......Page 701
Spectral Lineshapes of Ammonia Transitions of the v2 Band versus Pressure and Temperature......Page 703
Multiphoton Excited Luminescence of Porous Silicon......Page 705
Second Roundtable Discussion......Page 706
Summary of the School......Page 707
Participants......Page 708
Index......Page 719
