Ultrafast Phenomena Xiv: Proceedings Of The 14th International Conference, Jiigata, Japan, July 25-30, 2004

by Kobayashi, Tetsuro; Okada, Tadashi; Kobayashi, Tetsuro; Nelson, Keith A.; De Silvestry, Sandro

• ISBN13: 9783540241102
• ISBN10: 3540241108
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Ultrafast Phenomena XIV presents the latest advances in ultrafast science, including ultrafast laser and measurement technology as well as studies of ultrafast phenomena. Pico-, femto-, and atosecond processes relevant in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering are presented. Ultrafast technology is now having a profound impact within a wide range of applications, among them imaging, material diagnostics, and transformation and high-speed optoelectronics. This book summarizes results presented at the 14th Ultrafast Phenomena Conference and reviews the state of the art in this important and rapidly advancing field.

Table of Contents

Part I Generation and Measurements
Single-Cycle Optical Pulse Generation	3	(5)
D.R. Walker
M. Shverdin
D. Yavuz
G.-Y. Yin
S.E. Harris
Toward a Terawatt Few-Optical-Cycle Driver Laser for Attosecond Spectroscopy	8	(5)
N. Ishii
R. Butkus
A. Baltuska
E. Goulielmakis
M. Uiberacker
R. Kienberger
T. Fuji
V.S. Yakovlev
V. Smilgevicius
R. Danielius
A. Piskarskas
F. Krausz
2.8-fs Clean Single Transform-Limited Optical-Pulse Generation and Characterization	13	(3)
K. Yamane
T. Kito
R. Morita
M. Yamashita
Coherent Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses with Passive Enhancement Cavities	16	(3)
R.J. Jones
L.-S. Ma
J. Ye
Temporal and Spatial Pulse Compression in a Nonlinear Defocusing Material	19	(3)
N.C. Nielsen
T. Honer zu Siederdissen
J. Kuhl
M. Schaarschmidt
J. Forstner
A. Knorr
S.W. Koch
H. Giessen
Intense CEO-Stabilized Few-Cycle Laser Pulses from Supercontinuum Generation in Filaments	22	(3)
J. Biegert
C.P. Hauri
W. Kornelis
A. Heinrich
F.W. Helbing
A. Couairon
A. Mysyrowicz
U. Keller
Generation of Ultra-Broadband High Energy Pulses without External Amplification	25	(3)
A. Fuerbach
A. Fernandez G.
T. Fuji
H. Mayer
P. Dombi
F. Krausz
A. Apolonski
Sub-10 fs Multi-mJ Ti:Sapphire Laser System with a Pressure-Gradient Hollow Fiber	28	(3)
Y. Oishi
A. Suda
F. Kannari
K. Midorikawa
Generation of 14-fs Ultrashort Pulse in All Fiber Scheme by Use of Highly Nonlinear Hybrid Fiber	31	(3)
T. Hori
N. Nishizawa
T. Goto
High Peak Power Ultrashort Pulse Generation Using All-Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification System with Small Core Multimode Fiber	34	(3)
J. Takayanagi
N. Nishizawa
H. Nagai
M. Yoshida
T. Goto
Carrier-Envelope Phase Fluctuations of Amplified Laser Pulses Transmitted through Neon-Filled Hollow Fiber for Pulse Compression	37	(3)
A. Ishizawa
H. Nakano
Temporal Self-Compression of Intense Femtosecond Pulses Propagating in Argon-Filled Hollow Waveguides	40	(3)
N. Wagner
E.A. Gibson
S. Backus
M.M. Murnane
H.C. Kapteyn
I.P. Christov
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Ultrahigh-Speed Femtosecond Soliton Pulse Compression with a Dispersion-Decreasing Fiber	43	(3)
T. Hirooka
S. Ono
K.-I. Hagiuda
M. Nakazawa
Control of the Spectral Broadening of Tens-Milli-Joules Laser Pulses in an Argon-Filled Hollow Fiber Using a Conjugate Pressure Gradient	46	(3)
M. Nurhuda
A. Suda
K. Midorikawa
Microstructured Fiber Feedback Pulse Compression to Few Optical Cycles	49	(3)
M. Adachi
K. Yamane
R. Morita
M. Yamashita
Spectral-Temporal Soliton Dynamics Analysis Near Second Zero-Dispersion Point in Photonic Crystal Fibers	52	(3)
A. Efimov
A.J. Taylor
F.G. Omenetto
N. Joly
D.V. Skryabin
J.C. Knight
W.J. Wadsworth
P.S.J. Russell
Generation of Rotational Raman Emissions and Self-Compressed Femtosecond Pulses in a Hydrogen Gas	55	(3)
S. Zaitsu
Y. Kida
T. Imasaka
Spectral Broadening of 50 Milli Joule Laser Pulses in a Neon-Filled Herriot Multiple-Pass Cell (MPC)	58	(3)
M. Nurhuda
A. Suda
K. Midorikawa
CEO Phase Preservation in Chirped-Pulse Optical Parametric Amplification of 17.3-fs Pulses	61	(3)
J. Biegert
C.P. Hauri
P. Schlup
W. Kornelis
F.W. Helbing
U. Keller
G. Arisholm
Long-Term Stabilization and Control of CEP of Idler from NOPA	64	(3)
S. Adachi
T. Kobayashi
Experimental and Theoretical Study of a Visible Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplified Pulse with 200 THz Bandwidth	67	(3)
X. Fang
T. Kobayashi
Tunable Wavelength Pulse Shaping of Visible NOPA Outputs with an Acousto-Optic Programmable Dispersive Filter	70	(3)
D. Kaplan
P. Tournois
B. Chatel
A. Monmayrant
Broadband High Power Optical Chirped Pulse Amplification	73	(3)
N. Ishii
R. Butkus
A. Baltuska
V. Smilgevicius
R. Danielius
A. Piskarskas
F. Krausz
Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulse Generation by Optical Parametric Amplification under Broadband QPM Condition	76	(3)
S. Ashihara
M. Ikeda
T. Shimura
K. Kuroda
Achromatic Second Harmonic Generation: Tunable Ultraviolet Pulses with Sub-10 fs Duration	79	(3)
P. Baum
S. Lochbrunner
E. Riedle
Ultrabroad-Band Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Some New Nonlinear Optical Crystals	82	(3)
P. Kumbhakar
T. Kobayashi
Design of Multilayer Mirrors for the Reflection of Sub-Femtosecond Pulses in the XUV Spectral Region	85	(3)
A.S. Pirozhkov
H. Daido
S.V. Bulanov
E.N. Ragozin
Route to Design Electric Fields of Optical Pulses: A Combination of a Pulse Shaper and a Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilized Chirped-Pulse Amplifier System	88	(3)
M. Kakehata
H. Takada
Y. Kobayashi
K. Torizuka
K. Nishijima
H. Takamiya
T. Homma
H. Takahashi
Towards Electric Field Reconstruction Using Coherent Transients in a Two-Level System	91	(3)
A. Monmayrant
B. Chatel
B. Girard
Spatiotemporal Determination of the Absolute Phase of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses	94	(3)
F. Lindner
M. Schatzel
G. Paulus
H. Walther
A. Baltuska
E. Goulielmakis
M. Lezius
F.c Krausz
Spatial Chirp and Pulse-Front Tilt in Ultrashort Laser Pulses and Their Measurement	97	(3)
S. Akturk
X. Gu
E. Zeek
R. Trebino
Principal Control Analysis: Gaining Insight from Feedback Learning Algorithms	100	(3)
J.L. White
B.J. Pearson
P.H. Bucksbaum
Population-Split Genetic Algorithm for Phase Retrieval of Ultrafast Laser Pulses	103	(3)
C.-W. Chen
S.-F. Shu
C.-K. Lee
C.-L. Pan
Eight-Frame Observation of Propagation Behavior of 0.49-mJ, 45-fs Optical Pulses Generated by a 1- kHz Laser System	106	(3)
M. Fujimoto
S.-I. Aoshima
Y. Tsuchiya
Self-Referenced Measurement of the Complete Electric Field of Ultrashort Pulses in Time and Space	109	(3)
P. Gabolde
S. Akturk
R. Trebino
Pulse-Measurement Challenges at 1.5 Microns: Several-Cycle Pulses and Several-Element Devices	112	(3)
S. Akturk
M. Kimmel
R. Trebino
S. Naumov
E. Sorokin
I.T. Sorokina
Single-Shot Phase Measurement by Spectral Phase Interferometry Using a Streak Camera	115	(3)
T. Akagawa
K. Misawa
R. Lang
FROG Measured 185 fs Pulses Generated by Down-Chirped Dispersion-Managed Breathing-Mode Semiconductor Laser	118	(3)
B. Resan
L. Archundia
P.J. Delfyett
Direct Measurement of the Group Delay Dispersion of Ultrashort Pulses Utilizing Molecular Vibrations	121	(3)
P.J. Rizo
T. Kobayashi
Spatially Encoded Spectral Interferometry for Complete Characterisation of Attosecond XUV Pulses	124	(3)
E. Cormier
I.A. Walmsley
E.M. Kosik
L. Corner
L.F. DiMauro
Spatially Encoded Spectral Interferometry for Complete Characterization of Ultrashort Pulses	127	(3)
E.M. Kosik
A.S. Radunsky
I.A. Walmsley
C. Dorrer
Full Characterization of Ultraviolet and Visible 10-fs Pulses with Zero-Additional-Phase SPIDER	130	(3)
P. Baum
S. Lochbrunner
E. Riedle
Direct Visualization of Transient Absorption by Real-Time Pump-Probe Imaging Spectroscopy	133	(6)
N. Furukawa
C.E. Mair
V.D. Kleiman
J. Takeda
Part II Strong Fields and High Order Harmonics
Dynamic Molecular Imaging	139	(5)
P.B. Corkum
Femtosecond Electron Diffraction: Towards Making the ``Molecular Movie''	144	(5)
J.R. Dwyer
R.E. Jordan
B.J. Siwick
C.T. Hebeisen
R.J. Dwayne Miller
Absolute Displacement Interferometry of Ultrafast Laser-Produced Plasma Expansion	149	(3)
G. Rodriguez
S.A. Clarke
A.J. Taylor
Electron Acceleration through Spatiotemporal Shaping of Ultrashort Light Pulses	152	(3)
D.H. Torchinsky
T. Feurer
K.A. Nelson
Mapping Attosecond Electron Wave Packet Motion	155	(3)
H. Niikura
D.M. Villeneuve
P.B. Corkum
Quasi-Monoenergetic Electron Beam Generation in Laser-Driven Plasma Acceleration	158	(3)
E. Miura
K. Koyama
M. Adachi
S. Kato
Y. Kwada
S. Masuda
T. Nakamura
N. Saito
M. Tanimoto
Control of Multiphoton Ionization Processes in Aligned 12 Molecules by Optimizing Time-Dependent Polarization of Femtosecond Pulses	161	(3)
T. Suzuki
S. Minemoto
T. Kanai
H. Sakai
Tomographic Imaging of Molecular Orbital with High Harmonic Generation	164	(3)
J. Itatani
J. Levesque
D. Zeidler
M. Spanner
P. B. Corkum
D.M. Villeneuve
Femtosecond Infrared Vibrational Up-Pumping of Liquid Phase W(CO)6	167	(3)
T.I. Witte
M.C. Motzkus
K.L. Kompa
J.S. Yeston
E.J. Heilweil
Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction	170	(5)
K. Sokolowski-Tinten
C. Blome
J. Blums
U. Shymanovich
M. Nicoul
A. Cavalleri
A. Tarasevitch
M. Horn-von Hoegen
M. Kammler
D. von der Linde
Quasi-Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation in the ``water window'' Soft X-Ray Region	175	(3)
E.A. Gibson
A. Paul
S. Backus
R. Tobey
M.M. Murnane
H.C. Kapteyn
I.P. Christov
Adaptive Engineering of Coherent Soft X-Rays	178	(3)
T. Pfeifer
D. Walter
C. Winterfeldt
C. Spielmann
G. Gerber
Generation of Strong Soft X-Ray Field Based on High-Order Harmonics	181	(3)
H. Mashiko
A. Suda
K. Midorikawa
Generation of Sub-4-fs High Harmonic Pulses and Their Application to the Above-Threshold Ionization	184	(5)
T. Sekikawa
A. Kosuge
T. Kanai
S. Watanabe
Coherent Imaging of Laser-Plasma Interactions Using High-Harmonic EUV Light	189	(3)
X. Zhang
D. Raymondson
A.R. Libertun
A.J. Paul
M.M. Murnane
H.C. Kapteyn
Y. Liu
D.T. Attwood
High-Order Harmonic Generation from Argon Ions up to 250eV	192	(3)
E.A. Gibson
A. Paul
N. Wagner
S. Backus
M.M. Murnane
H.C. Kapteyn
I.P. Christov
High-Order Harmonic Generation from Femtosecond Laser-Aligned Molecules	195	(3)
K. Miyazaki
M. Kaku
K. Masuda
G. Miyaji
Efficient Generation of High-Order Sum and Difference Frequencies in the XUV Region by Combining a Weak, Longer-Wavelength Field	198	(3)
Y. Nomura
T. Kanai
S. Minemoto
H. Sakai
Effects of Target Condition on Solid Surface Harmonics in the Extreme Ultraviolet Range	201	(3)
T. Ozaki
J.-C. Kieffer
H. Nakano
A. Ishizawa
Control of the Frequency Chirp Rate of High Harmonic Pulses	204	(3)
J. Biegert
M. Bruck
C.P. Hauri
A. Heinrich
F.W. Helbing
W. Kornelis
P. Schlup
U. Keller
R. Lopez-Martens
J. Mauritsson
P. Johnsson
K. Varju
A. L'Huillier
M. Gaarde
K.J. Schafer
Wavefront Control in High Harmonics Generation with Few-and Many-Optical-Cycle Laser Pulses	207	(3)
P. Villoresi
S. Bonora
M. Pascolini
L. Poletto
C. Vozzi
G. Sansone
S. Stagira
M. Nisoli
Phase-Driven Strong-Field Processes in the Multi-Optical-Cycle Regime	210	(3)
G. Sansone
S. Stagira
C. Vozzi
M. Pascolini
L. Poletto
P. Villoresi
G. Tondello
S. De Silvestri
M. Nisoli
Bright High-Order Harmonic Generation at 13 nm and Coherence Measurement	213	(3)
H.T. Kim
I.J. Kim
V. Tosa
Y.S. Lee
C.H. Nam
Attosecond Pulse Generation During the Laser Pulse Reflection at the Plasma-Vacuum Interface	216	(3)
A.S. Pirozhkov
H. Daido
S.V. Bulanov
Energetic Proton and Deuteron Generation from a Microporous Polytetrafluoroethylene Film with Deuterated Polystyrene Using a 2.4-TW Table-Top Laser	219	(3)
H. Takahashi
S. Okihara
S. Ohsuka
M. Fujimoto
S. Okazaki
T. Ito
S. Aoshima
Y. Tsuchiya
High-Energy Protons Emitted from a Polymer-Coated Metal foil by 60-fs Laser Irradiation	222	(3)
H. Kishimura
H. Morishita
Y.H. Okano
Y. Okano
Y. Hironaka
K.-I. Kondo
Y. Oishi
K. Nemoto
K.G. Nakamura
Estimation of Proton Source Size Generated by Ultraintense Laser Pulses Using a Thomson Mass Spectrometer	225	(6)
Y. Oishi
T. Nayuki
T. Fujii
Y.i Takizawa
X. Wang
T. Sekiya
A.A. Andreev
K. Horioka
T. Yamazaki
K. Nemoto
Part III Ultrafast Dynamics in Solid 1 (Phonon and Exciton)
Imaging Nanostructures with Picosecond Ultrasonic Pulses	231	(5)
B.C. Daly
N.C.R. Holme
T. Buma
C. Branciard
T.B. Norris
S. Pau
D.M. Tennant
J.A. Taylor
J.E. Bower
Ultrahigh Frequency Acoustic Phonon Generation and Spectroscopy with Deathstar Pulse Shaping	236	(3)
J.D. Beers
M. Yamaguchi
T. Feurer
B.J. Paxton
K. A. Nelson
Probing of Thermo-Acoustic Transients in Materials Using EUV Radiation	239	(3)
R.I. Tobey
E.H. Gershgoren
M.E. Siemens
M.M. Murnane
H.C. Kapteyn
T. Feurer
K.A. Nelson
Ultrafast Dynamics of Coherent Electron-Phonon Interaction in Silicon	242	(3)
M. Kitajima
M. Hase
A.M. Constantinescu
H. Petek
Generation of Coherent Zone Boundary Phonons by Impulsive Excitation of Molecules	245	(3)
M. Guhr
N. Schwentner
Amplitude Collapse-Revival of Chirped Coherent Phonons under High-Density Optical Excitation	248	(3)
K. Ishioka
O.V. Misochko
R. Lu
M. Hase
M. Kitajima
Intense Coherent Optical Phonons Driven by Impulsive Excitonic Interference under Electric Fields	251	(3)
O. Kojima
K. Mizoguchi
M. Nakayama
Phonon-Polariton Based THz Spectroscopy	254	(3)
B.J. Paxton
M. Yamaguchi
K.A. Nelson
Excitonic Quantum Beats Dressed with Coherent Phonons	257	(3)
K. Mizoguchi
T. Furuichi
O. Kojima
M. Nakayama
K. Akahane
N. Yamamoto
N. Ohtani
Evidence of Higher-Order Nonlinearities in Excitonic FWM Signals in Microscopic Theory and Experiment	260	(3)
L. Wischmeier
M. Buck
S. Schumacher
G. Czycholl
F. Jahnke
I. Ruckmann
J. Gutowski
Ultrafast Anisotropic Processes of Exciton Magnetic Polarons in CdTe/CdMnTe Quantum Wires	263	(3)
R. Naganuma
T. Kita
S. Nagahara
O. Wada
L. Marshal
H. Mariette
Time-Resolved Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Excitons in Cu2O	266	(3)
M. Kubouchi
R. Shimano
K. Yoshioka
A. Mysyrowicz
M. Kuwata-Gonokami
Exciton Dynamics in Pentacene and Tetracene Studied Using Optical Pump-Probe Spectroscopy	269	(3)
V.K. Thorsmolle
R.D. Averitt
J. Demsar
X. Chi
D.L. Smith
A.P. Ramirez
A.J. Taylor
Dephasing Suppression of Excitons in Semiconductors	272	(3)
T. Kishimoto
A. Hasegawa
Y. Mitsumori
M. Sasaki
F. Minami
Dynamical Stark Effect of Excitons in Cu2O by Resonant Pulsed Excitation of the 1s-2p Transition	275	(3)
K. Yoshioka
M. Kubouchi
R. Shimano
M. Kuwata-Gonokami
Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration and Exciton Regeneration at Polymeric Semiconductor Heterojunctions	278	(3)
A.C. Morteani
P. Sreearunothai
L.M. Herz
R.H. Friend
C. Silva
Exciton Diffusion Dynamics in an Organic Semiconductor Nanostructure	281	(6)
C. Daniel
L.M. Herz
S. Westenhoff
F. Makereel
D. Beljonne
F.J.M. Hoeben
P. Jonkheijm
A.P.H.J. Schenning
E.W. Meijer
C. Silva
Part IV Ultrafast Dynamics in Solid 2
Carrier-Envelope Phase Controlled Quantum Interference in a Semiconductor	287	(5)
T.M. Fortier
P.A. Roos
D.J. Jones
S.T. Cundiff
R.D.R. Bhat
J.E. Sipe
Phase-Resolved Nonlinear Response of Modulation-Doped Quantum Wells under Femtosecond Intersubband Excitation	292	(3)
T. Shih
C.-W. Luo
K. Reimann
M. Woerner
T. Elsaesser
I. Waldmuller
A. Knorr
R. Hey
K.H. Ploog
Ultrafast Intersubband Relaxation and Carrier Cooling in GaN/AIN Multiple Quantum Wells	295	(3)
J. Hamazaki
H. Kunugita
K. Ema
S. Matsui
Y. Ishii
T. Morita
A. Kikuchi
K. Kishino
Polaritonics in Complex Structures: Confinement, Bandgap Materials, and Coherent Control	298	(3)
D.W. Ward
E.R. Statz
J.D. Beers
T. Feurer
J.D. Joannopoulos
R.M. Roth
R.M. Osgood
K.J. Webb
K.A. Nelson
Detection of Four-Wave Mixing Signal from Single Layer Quantum Dots	301	(3)
M. Ikezawa
F. Suto
Y. Masumoto
H.-W. Ren
Wavepacket Interferometry and Wavepacket Dynamics in Condensed Phase	304	(3)
M. Bargheer
M. Fushitani
M. Guhr
N. Schwentner
Femtosecond Wavepacket Dynamics of Potassium Adsorbate on Pt(111)	307	(3)
K. Watanabe
N. Takagi
Y. Matsumoto
Control of Tunnel Ionization in Molecules by Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses With Time-Dependent Polarization	310	(3)
T. Kanai
S. Minemoto
H. Sakai
Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Dynamics in the Colossal Magnetoresistance Pyrochlore Tl2Mn2O7	313	(3)
R.P. Prasankumar
A.J. Taylor
R.D. Averitt
H. Okamura
H. Imai
Y. Shimakawa
Y. Kubo
Femto-Magnetism Visualized in Three Dimensions	316	(3)
J.-Y. Bigot
M. Vomir
L.H.F. Andrade
L. Guidoni
E. Beaurepaire
J. Arabski
Photo-Induced Demagnetization Observed by Time-Resolved Mid-Infared Transmittance Spectroscopy in Ga0.94Mn0.06As	319	(3)
E. Kojima
J.B.t Heroux
R. Shimano
Y.i Hashimoto
S. Katsumoto
Y. Iye
M. Kuwata-Gonokami
Optically Induced Magnetization and Ultrafast Spin Dynamics of Magnetic Ions in Ionic Crystals	322	(3)
T. Kohmoto
K. Nakazono
S. Furue
M. Kunitomo
Y. Fukuda
Dynamic Coupling-Decoupling Crossover in the Current-Driven Vortex-State in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 Studied Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy	325	(3)
V.K. Thorsmolle
R.D. Averitt
I. Aranson
M.P. Maley
L.N. Bulaevskii
A.J. Taylor
Ultrafast Light Induced Charge Disordering Around Phase Transition Temperature in 2D Spin Ladder Compound NaV2O5	328	(3)
M. Aiba
M. Nakajima
M. Isobe
Y. Ueda
T. Suemoto
Correlation of the Electronic Transitions in Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes	331	(3)
Y.-Z. Ma
J. Stenger
S.L. Dexheimer
S.M. Bachilo
R.E. Smalley
R.B. Weisman
G.R. Fleming
Ultrafast Radial Transport in a Micron-Scale Aluminum Plasma Excited at Relativistic Intensity	334	(3)
B.T. Bowes
M.C. Downer
H. Langhoff
M. Wilcox
B. Hou
J. Nees
G. Mourou
Chirp Control of Free Carrier Dynamics in GaAs	337	(3)
T. Hattori
T. Yogi
Y. Hama
N. Watanabe
Ultrafast Insulator-to-Metal Switching by Photoinduced Mott Transition	340	(3)
S. Iwai
Y. Okimoto
M. Ono
H. Matsuzaki
A. Maeda
H. Kishida
H. Okamoto
Y. Tokura
Femtosecond Near Edge X-Ray Absorption Measurement of the VO2 Phase Transition	343	(3)
A. Cavalleri
H.H.W. Chong
S. Fourmaux
T.E. Glover
P.A. Heimannn
J.C. Kieffer
H.A. Padmore
R.W. Schoenlein
Phase Transition in Strongly-Correlated VO2: Time-Domain Assignment of Cause and Effect	346	(3)
A. Cavalleri
T. Dekorsy
H.H. Chong
J.C. Kieffer
R.W. Schoenlein
Polarization-Dependent Phenomenon Induced by the Interaction between Focused Femtosecond Laser and Transparent Materials	349	(5)
Y. Shimotsuma
J. Qiu
P.G. Kazansky
K. Hirao
Investigation on the Parameters of Dense Electronic Plasma Induced by Femtosecond Laser in Fused Silica	354	(3)
Q. Gong
Q. Sun
Y. Liu
Z. Wu
H. Yang
H. Jiang
Dynamical Symmetry Breaking Induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses in KTaO3	357	(6)
E. Matsubara
J.-I. Takahashi
K. Inoue
E. Hanamura
Part V Ultrafast Dynamics in Solution
Sub-20-fs Study of Energy Relaxation in carotenoids in solution and inside light harvesting complexes	363	(5)
G. Cerullo
D. Polli
G. Lanzani
H. Hashimoto
R.J. Cogdell
Energy Flow in Carotenoids, Studied With Pump-Deplete-Probe, Multiphoton and Coherent Control Spectroscopy	368	(3)
T. Buckup
W. Wohlleben
J. Savolainen
B. Heinz
H. Hashimoto
R.J. Cogdell
J.L. Herek
M. Motzkus
Amplitude Spectra of Molecular Vibration Modes in Phthalocyanine: Comparison with Raman Excitation Profile	371	(3)
T. Kobayashi
M. Hirasawa
Y. Sakazaki
H. Hane
Real Time Tracking of the Peaks in Transition Difference Spectra During Vibrational Periods in PDA	374	(3)
Y. Yuasa
M. Ikuta
T. Kimura
H. Matsuda
T. Kobayashi
Time-Resolved CARS Studies of Vibrational Coherences in the Condensed Phase: 12 in Solid Krypton	377	(3)
M. Karavitis
I. Goldschleger
V.A. Apkarian
T. Kumada
Measurement of Conical Intersection Dynamics by Impulsive Femtosecond Polarization Spectroscopy	380	(3)
D.A. Farrow
W. Qian
E.R. Smith
D.M. Jonas
Vibrational Phase Characterization in Femtosecond-Pumped Molecules by Path-Length Modulation	383	(3)
T. Taneichi
T. Fuji
Y.u Yuasa
T. Kobayashi
Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Water-Acetonitrile Mixtures	386	(3)
D. Cringus
S. Yeremenko
M.S. Pshenichnikov
D.A. Wiersma
Cascaded Energy Redistribution upon O-H Stretching Excitation in an Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond	389	(3)
K. Heyne
M. Petkovic
E.T.J. Nibbering
O. Kuhn
T. Elsaesser
Pure Intermolecular Energy Relaxation of the OH Bending Vibration of Water Molecules Dissolved in Organic Liquids	392	(3)
G. Seifert
T. Patzlaff
K. Paradowska-Moszkowska
H. Graener
Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of an Azobenzene Derivative with a Small S1-S2 Energy Gap	395	(3)
M. Hagiri
N. Ichinose
T. Nakayama
C. Zhao
H. Horiuchi
H. Hiratsuka
Photo-Thermalization Dynamics of Azulene in Supercritical Fluids Studied by the Transient Grating Method	398	(3)
Y. Kimura
Y. Yamamoto
M. Terazima
Vibrational Self-Trapping in an a-Helix	401	(3)
J. Edler
V. Pouthier
C. Falvo
R. Pfister
P. Hamm
Infrared Photon-Echo Spectroscopy of Water: the Thermalization Effects	404	(3)
M.S. Pshenichnikov
S. Yeremenko
D.A. Wiersma
Heterodyne 2D-IR Photon Echo Spectroscopy of Multi-Level OH Stretching Coherences in Hydrogen Bonds	407	(3)
N. Huse
B.D. Bruner
M.L. Cowan
J. Dreyer
E.T.J. Nibbering
T. Elsaesser
R.J.D. Miller
A Unified Analysis of Ultrafast Vibrational and Orientational Dynamics of HOD in D2O	410	(3)
J.J. Loparo
C.J. Fecko
J.D. Eaves
S.T. Roberts
A. Tokmakoff
Time Resolved Direct Probing of the Change in the Local Solvent Response Following Excitation of a Solute	413	(3)
D.F. Underwood
D.A. Blank
Surface Femtochemistry: Photocatalytic Reaction Dynamics of Methanol/Ti02(110)	416	(3)
K. Onda
B. Li
H. Petek
Three Pulse Four Wave Mixing for the Study of Coherent Interactions, Nuclear Dynamics and Solvation Dynamics in Liquids	419	(3)
J.-S. Park
T. Joo
Solvation Dynamics of N-Methylacetamide in D2O, CDC13, and DMSO-d6	422	(3)
M.F. DeCamp
L.P. DeFlores
J.M. McCracken
A. Tokmakoff
Femtosecond Pump-Probe Measurements of Solvation Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bonding Complexes in Non-Associating Solvents	425	(3)
D. Pines
E. Pines
Y.-Z. Ma
G.R. Fleming
Novel Time- and Frequency-Resolved Double Pump Spectroscopy of Short-Lived Precursors: The Solvated Electron in Methanol	428	(3)
A. Thaller
R. Laenen
A. Laubereau
Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy on Aqueous Reverse-Micellar Nano-Droplets	431	(3)
D. Cringus
M.T.W. Milder
M.S. Pshenichnikov
D.A. Wiersma
J. Lindner
P. Vohringer
Pump-Probe Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Molecular Aggregates Using Supercontinuum	434	(3)
T.o Nagahara
K. Imura
H. Okamoto
Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation Dynamics of Anions in Reverse Micelles by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy	437	(6)
J.C. Owrutsky
G.M. Sando
Q. Zhong
A.P. Baronavski
Part VI Reaction Dynamics in Solution
Femtochemistry in the Electronic Groundstate? IR-Driven Cis-Trans Isomerization of HONO	443	(5)
P. Hamm
R. Schanz
V. Botan
Bimodal Intermolecular Proton Transfer in Acid-Base Neutralization Reactions in Water	448	(5)
O.F. Monhammed
M. Rini
J. Dreyer
B.-Z. Magnes
D. Pines
E.T.J. Nibbering
E. Pines
Ultrafast Excitation Energy Migration Processes in Various Porphyrin Arrays	453	(3)
D. Kim
Energy Transfer in Phenylene Ethynylene Dendrimers	456	(3)
E. Atas
C.E. Mair
J.S. Melinger
Z. Peng
V.D. Kleiman
A 40-fs Time-Resolved Absorption Study of Cis-Stilbene in Solution: Observation of Coherent Nuclear Wavepacket Motion in Reactive Excited State	459	(3)
K. Ishii
S. Takeuchi
T. Tahara
Monitoring an Ultrafast Photo-Isomerization by Femtosecond Fluorescence, Absorption, and IR Spectroscopy	462	(3)
P. Gilch
B. Schmidt
C. Sobotta
M. Braun
F. Koller
T. Schrader
A. Sieg
W. Schreier
W. Zinth
From Ultrafast Spectroscopy to Bidirectional Molecular Switches: DHA/VHF	465	(3)
U. Schmidhammer
V. De Waele
G. Buntinx
E. Riedle
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	468	(3)
T. Takaya
K. Iwata
H. Hamaguchi
H. Kuroda
Real-Time Spectroscopy of Charge-Transfer Excitation in Phthalocyanine Tin Dichloride	471	(3)
M. Hirasawa
Y. Sakazaki
H. Hane
T. Kobayashi
Coherent Nuclear Dynamics Coupled with Electron Transfer Reaction in Porphyrin-Ferrocence Dyads	474	(5)
S. Nakashima
M. Kubo
M. Otani
M. Murakami
Y. Ishibashi
M. Yasuda
H. Miyasaka
Y. Mori
H. Imahori
Subpicosecond Pulse Radiolysis Study on Geminate Ion Recombination Process in n-Dodecane	479	(3)
Y. Yoshida
A. Saeki
T. Kozawa
J.g Yang
S. Tagawa
Fast Spin Dynamics of Optically Induced Magnetization in Aqueous Solutions of Magnetic Ions	482	(3)
S. Furue
T. Kohmoto
M. Kunitomo
Y. Fukuda
Vibrational Excitation and Energy Redistribution after Ultrafast Intramolecular Proton Transfer of TINUVIN	485	(3)
W. Werncke
V. Kozich
J. Dreyer
Coherent Nuclear Motion in Reacting Molecules: Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Proton Transfer in Solution	488	(3)
S. Takeuchi
T. Tahara
Ultrafast Double Proton Transfer: Symmetry Breaking Wavepacket Motion and Absence of Deuterium Isotope Effect	491	(5)
S. Lochbrunner
K. Stock
C. Schriever
E. Riedle
Photodissociation Dynamics Studied via Time-Resolved Coincidence Imaging Spectroscopy	496	(3)
O. Geßner
E. Ter-Heersche Chrysostom
A.M.D. Lee
J.P. Shaffer
C.C. Hayden
A. Stolow
Femtosecond Photo-Induced Dissociation of the Trihalide Anions 13- and I2Br- in Solution	499	(3)
P. Salen
M. Liu
P. van der Meulen
Coherent Control of Non-Radiative Transitions: Long-Range Electron Transfer	502	(3)
B.D. Fainberg
V.A. Gorbunov
S.H. Lin
Teaching Lasers To Twist Molecules	505	(3)
G. Vogt
G. Krampert
P. Niklaus
G. Gerber
Quantum Control of a Chiral Molecular Motor Driven by Linearly Polarized Laser Pulses	508	(3)
M. Yamaki
K. Hoki
Y. Ohtsuki
H. Kono
Y. Fujimura
Numerical Synthesis of Optimal Laser Pulses for Manipulating Dissociation Wave Packets of 12- in Water	511	(3)
Y. Ohtsuki
Y. Nishiyama
T. Kato
H. Kono
Y. Fujimura
Molecular State Reconstruction by Nonlinear Wave Packet Interferometry	514	(3)
T.S. Humble
J.A. Cina
Femtosecond Coherent Spectroscopic Study of Zn(II) Porphyrin by Chirping-Controlled Ultrashort Pulses	517	(3)
M.-C. Yoon
S. Cho
D. Kim
Phase Analysis of Vibrational Wavepackets in the Ground and the Excited States in Polydiacetylene	520	(3)
M. Ikuta
Y. Yuasa
T. Kimura
H. Matsuda
T. Kobayashi
Calculating Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Signals from Molecules in Cryogenic Matrices	523	(3)
M.A. Rohrdanz
J.A. Cina
Real-Time Observation of Phase-Controlled Vibrational Wave-Packets in Iodine Molecules	526	(3)
Y. Sato
H. Chiba
M. Honda
Y. Hagihara
K. Fujiwara
K. Ohmori
K. Ueda
Single-Shot Transient Absorption of 13- in Solutions and Glasses	529	(6)
P.R. Poulin
K.A. Nelson
Part VII Multiview and Multi-Dimensional Spectroscopy
Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonds in Water: Vibrational Echoes and Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy	535	(4)
C.J. Fecko
J.D. Eaves
J.J. Loparo
S.T. Roberts
A. Tokmakoff
P.L. Geissler
Dual-Frequency 2D IR Photon Echo of a Hydrogen Bond	539	(3)
I.V. Rubtsov
K. Kumar
R.M. Hochstrasser
2D-IR Spectroscopy of Transient Species	542	(3)
J. Bredenbeck
J. Helbing
P. Hamm
Resolving Conformations of Acetylproline-NH2 by Coherent 2D IR Spectroscopy	545	(3)
D. Karaiskaj
S. Sul
Y. Jiang
N.-H. Ge
Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Rotaxanes	548	(3)
O.F.A. Larsen
W.J. Buma
D.A. Leigh
S. Woutersen
Thermal Denaturing of Proteins: Equilibrium and Transient Studies Using Nonlinear Infrared Probes	551	(3)
H.S. Chung
M. Khalil
A.W. Smith
Z. Ganim
A. Tokmakoff
Two-Dimensional Optical Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Molecular Complexes	554	(3)
I. Stiopkin
T. Brixner
G.R. Fleming
Two-Dimensional Measurement of the Solvent Intermolecular Response in Solvation	557	(3)
S. Park
J. Kim
N.F. Scherer
Two-Dimensional Femtosecond Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy Using a Chirped Supercontinuum Generated from a Photonic Crystal Fiber	560	(3)
H. Kano
H. Hamaguchi
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy by Spectrally Resolved Real-Time Resonant Coherent Raman Scattering in Polydiacetylene	563	(3)
N. Ishii
E. Tokunaga
S. Adachi
T. Kimura
H. Matsuda
T. Kobayashi
Optical Two-Dimensional Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Wells	566	(3)
C.N. Borca
T. Zhang
S.T. Cundiff
Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy Based on Two Dimensional Pulse Shaping	569	(3)
T. Hornung
J.C. Vaughan
T. Feurer
K.A. Nelson
Propagation and Detection Distortions of Four-Wave Mixing Signals: Application to 2D Spectroscopy	572	(3)
N. Belabas
D.M. Jonas
Fourier Transform Measurement of Two-Photon Excitation Spectra: Applications to Microscopy and Quantum Control	575	(6)
K.J. Kubarych
J.P. Ogilvie
A. Alexandrou
M. Joffre
Part VIII Biology
Watching Proteins Function with Picosecond Time-Resolved X-Ray Crystallography	581	(5)
P.A. Anfinrud
F. Schotte
M. Wulff
Energy Transfer Pathways in Photosystem I Studied by One and Two Color Photon Echo spectroscopy	586	(3)
H.M. Vaswani
J. Stenger
M. Yangz
P. Fromme
G.R. Fleming
Dynamics of Carotenoids Probed by Femtosecond Absorption, Fluorescence, and Raman Spectroscopy	589	(3)
M. Yoshizawa
D. Kosumi
M. Komukai
K. Yanagi
H. Hashimoto
Multi-Pulse Transient Absorption and Carotenoid Excited-State Dynamics: β-Carotene	592	(3)
E. Papagiannakis
D.S. Larsen
M. Vengris
I.H.M. van Stokkum
R. van Grondelle
Observation and Control of All-Trans-?-Carotene Wavepacket Motion Using Pump-Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing	595	(3)
T. Hornung
H. Skenderovic
K.-L. Kompa
M. Motzkus
Vibrational and Electronic Coherence Observed in Two-Dimensional Integrated Three-Pulse Photon Echo	598	(3)
Y. Nagasawa
M. Ogasawara
Y. Nakagawa
Y. Mori
T. Okada
H. Miyasaka
Photon Echo Study of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Strength in Molecules and Molecular Aggregates	601	(3)
V.I. Prokhorenko
R. van Grondelle
R.J. Dwayne Miller
Time and Frequency Domain Investigations on Ultrafast Photoisomerization Reaction Dynamics of PYP	604	(3)
H. Chosrowjan
S. Taniguchi
N. Mataga
N. Hamada
F. Tokunaga
M. Unno
Entire View of Coherent Oscillations in Ultrafast Fluorescence for Photoactive Yellow Protein	607	(3)
R. Nakamura
N. Hamada
H. Ichida
Y. Kanematsu
F. Tokunaga
Ultrafast Excited and Ground-State Isomerization Dynamics of the Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore in Solution	610	(3)
M. Vengris
I.H.M. van Stokkum
X. He
A.F. Bell
P.J. Tonge
R. van Grondelle
D.S. Larsen
Optimal Control of Femtosecond Photoisomerization of Retinal in Rhodopsin: Effects of Conical Intersections	613	(3)
M. Abe
Y. Ohtsuki
Y. Fujimura
W. Domcke
Ultrafast Polarization and Vibrational Motions in Bacteriorhodopsin Studied by Coherent Infrared Emission Spectroscopy	616	(3)
H.A. Colonna
G.I. Groma
J.-C. Lambry
M. Joffre
J.-L. Martin
M.H. Vos
Excited-State Dynamics of the 1Bu+, 3Ag--, and 1Bu-- States in All-Trans-Spirilloxanthin as Revealed by Sub-5-fs Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy	619	(3)
T. Kobayashi
K. Nishimura
F.S. Rondonuwu
Y. Koyama
Ultrafast Relaxation Inside Proteins: Calculation and Measurement of Electron-Vibration Coupling in Enzymes	622	(3)
B.M. Cho
R.C. Walker
I.P. Mercer
I.R. Gould
D.R. Klug
Direct Observations of Ligand Rebinding Trajectories in Myoglobin by Femtosecond Mid-IR Spectroscopy	625	(3)
S. Kim
M. Lim
Coherent Vibrational Climbing in Carboxy-Hemoglobin	628	(3)
C. Ventalon
J.M. Fraser
M.H. Vos
A. Alexandrou
J.-L. Martin
M. Joffre
Evidence for Non-Separating Four-Point Correlation Functions From IR Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of CO in a Protein Internal Cavity	631	(3)
J. Helbing
P. Hamm
K. Nienhaus
G.U. Nienhaus
The CO Oscillator as a Probe of Ligand Dissociation Dynamics in Myoglobin	634	(3)
J.P. Ogilvie
T. Polack
S. Franzen
M.H. Vos
M. Joffre
J.-L. Martin
A. Alexandrou
A 2DIR Study of Backbone Structure and Dynamics of a Dipeptide in Membrane	637	(3)
V. Volkov
P. Hamm
Engineering Cost Function for Optimizing Coherent Control between Processes with Different Nonlinearities	640	(5)
J. Chen
H. Kawano
Y. Nabekawa
H. Mizuno
A. Miyawaki
T. Tanabe
F. Kannari
K. Midorikawa
Part IX Ultrafast Nanostructure Photonics and Plasmon
Imaging of Localized Silver Plasmon Dynamics with Sub-fs Time and Nano-Meter Spatial Resolution	645	(5)
A. Kubo
K. Onda
H. Petek
Z. Sun
Y.S. Jung
H.K. Kim
Ultrafast Dynamics of Light Transmission through Plasmonic Crystals	650	(5)
C. Ropers
R. Muller
C. Lienau
G. Stibenz
G. Steinmeyer
D.-J. Park
Y.-C. Yoon
D.-S. Kim
Ultrafast Near-Field Microscope Imaging of Electron and Phonon Relaxation in Single Gold Nanoparticle	655	(3)
K. Imura
T. Nagahara
H. Okamoto
Plasmon Enhanced Ultrafast Optical Transmission in Metallic Nano-Arrays	658	(3)
A. Dechant
A. Y. Elezzabi
Excitation and Propagation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Metallic Periodic Structures	661	(3)
G. Torosyan
C. Rau
B. Pradarutti
R. Beigang
Ultrafast Dynamics of Periodic Arrays of Holes in a Gold Film	664	(3)
V. Halte
A. Benabbas
L. Guidoni
J.-Y. Bigot
A. Degiron
H.J. Lezec
T.W. Ebbesen
P. N. Saeta
Surface Plasmon Assisted 26 fs, 0.4 keV Electron Pulse Generation	667	(3)
S.E. Irvine
A.Y. Elezzabi
Space-Time Control in Ultrafast Nano-Optics	670	(3)
T. Brixner
J. Schneider
W. Pfeiffer
F.J. Garcia de Abajo
Coherent Control of Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Nanostructures	673	(3)
M.I. Stockman
D.J. Bergman
T. Kobayashi
Spaser as Ultrafast Nanoscale Phenomenon and Device	676	(3)
M.I. Stockman
D.J. Bergman
Ultrafast Quenching of the Ring Closure in Molecular Switches, Self-Assembled on Gold Nanoparticles	679	(6)
R. Hania
A. Pugzlys
T. Kudernac
H.T. Jonkman
K. Duppen
Part X Terahertz Wave and Applications
Temporal Spectroscopic Behavior of Terahertz Pulses Transmitted through Metal Hole Arrays	685	(5)
F. Miyamaru
M. Hangyo
Surface-Plasmon-Polariton Enhanced Tunneling of THz Radiation through Arrays of Sub-Wavelength Apertures	690	(3)
J.G. Rivas
C. Janke
P.H. Bolivar
H. Kurz
Terahertz Access to the Nanoworld	693	(3)
R. Kersting
H.-T. Chen
N. Karppwicz
G.C. Cho
Terahertz Surface Plaslmon Polariton Coupling on Metallic Grating Structures	696	(3)
J.F. O'Hara
R.D. Averitt
A.J. Taylor
Control of THz Transmission through Two-Dimensional Metallic Photonic Crystals	699	(3)
C.-L. Pan
C.-F. Hsieh
R.-P. Pan
M. Tanaka
F. Miyamaru
M. Tani
M. Hangyo
Teflon Photonic Crystal Fiber as Polarization-Preserving Waveguide in THz Region	702	(3)
M. Goto
A. Quema
H. Takahashi
S. Ono
N. Sarukura
Generation of Coherent Tunable THz Waves by Using Birefringent Crystal and Grating Pair	705	(3)
R. Yano
H. Gotoh
T. Hattori
Ultra-Wide Bandwidth THz Emission from a Semiconductor Irradiated with Intense, Radially Polarized, Bessel-Gauss Pulses	708	(3)
K.J. Chau
A.Y. Elezzabi
Mechanism Crossover of Terahertz Radiation from InAs Surface Induced by a Magnetic Field at High Density Excitation	711	(3)
M. Nakajima
Y. Oda
S. Saito
T. Suemoto
Transient Grating Generation and Waveform Shaping of Free-Space Propagating, Picosecond, Narrow-Band THz Radiation	714	(3)
A.G. Stepanov
J. Hebling
J. Kuhl
Typesetting THz Waveforms	717	(3)
J.C. Vaughan
T. Feurer
T. Hornung
K.A. Nelson
Magnetically Induced Evolution of Terahetz Radiation Spectrum Emitted from InAs up to 27T	720	(3)
H. Takahashi
A. Quema
M. Goto
S. Ono
N. Sarukura
G. Nishijima
K. Watanabe
A Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter with a Tuning Range of Over 360 Degrees around 1 THz	723	(3)
O.-Y. Chen
C.-F. Hsieh
R.-P. Chao
C.-L. Pan
Cooper Pair Breaking Dynamics in MgB2 Using Optical-Pump Terahertz-Probe Spectroscopy	726	(3)
J. Demsar
R.D. Averitt
A.J. Taylor
V.V. Kabanov
Femtosecond Formation of Phonon-Plasmon Coupled Modes Studied by Ultrabroadband THz Spectroscopy	729	(3)
R. Huber
C. Kubler
S. Tubel
A. Brodschelm
F. Kohler
M.-C. Amann
A. Leitenstorfer
Solid-State Phase Transition Onset Detection in Estrogen-Like Chemical via Terahertz Transmission Spectroscopy	732	(3)
A.V. Quema
M. Goto
M. Sakai
G. Janairo
R. El Ouenzerfi
H. Takahashi
S. Ono
N. Sarukura
Maximum Entropy Method for Misplacement Phase Error Correction in Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy	735	(3)
Y. Ino
R. Shimano
M. Kuwata-Gonokami
E.M. Vartiainen
Y.P. Svirko
K.E. Peiponen
Pulsed Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging Applied to Inspection of Explosives and Inflammable Liquids	738	(3)
K. Yamamoto
M. Yamaguchi
F. Miyamaru
M. Tani
M. Hangyo
T. Ikeda
A. Matsushita
K. Koide
M. Tatsuno
Y. Minami
Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Semiconductor Surfaces	741	(3)
J.G. Rivas
J. Saxler
M. Kuttge
P.H. Bolivar
H. Kurz
Evaluation of Complex Optical Constants of Semiconductor Wafers Using Terahertz Ellipsometry	744	(3)
T. Nagashima
M. Hangyo
Terahertz Two-Dimensional Spectroscopic Imaging with a High Speed CMOS Camera	747	(3)
H. Kitahara
T. Yonera
F. Miyamaru
M. Tani
M. Hangyo
Single-Shot Terahertz Imaging	750	(3)
R. Rungsawang
A. Mochiduki
S.-I. Okuma
T. Hattori
Ultrabroadband Detection of Multi-THz Field Transients with GaSe Electro-Optic Sensors	753	(3)
C. Kubler
R. Huber
S. Tubel
A. Leitenstorfer
Tetahertz Field Detection beyond 30 THz by Proton-Bombarded InP Photoconductive Antennas	756	(3)
T.-A. Liu
M. Tani
M. Nakajima
M. Hangyo
K. Sakai
S.-I. Nakashima
C.-L. Pan
THz Wave Near-Field Emission Microscope	759	(6)
T. Yuan
H. Park
J. Xu
H. Han
X.-C. Zhang
Part XI Optoelectronics and Other Applications
Optimization of a 40 GHz Regeneratively and Harmonically Mode-Locked Fiber Laser under PLL Operation and its Longitudinal Mode Characteristics	765	(3)
M. Yoshida
T. Yaguchi
S. Harada
M. Nakazawa
Femtosecond Synchronization of RF-Signals with Optical Pulse Trains	768	(3)
J.-W. Kim
M.H. Perrott
F.X. Kaertner
Fast Photo-Induced Phase Switching in Organic Conductor Crystal: (EDO-TTF)2PF6	771	(3)
M.C. Chollet
L. Guerin
N. Uchida
S. Fukaya
T. Ishikawa
S.-Y. Koshihara
K. Matsuda
A. Ota
H. Yamochi
G. Saito
Molecular Phase-to-Amplitude Converter Using Femtosecond Wave Packet Engineering	774	(3)
I. Matsuda
K. Misawa
N.T. Hashimoto
R. Lang
Femtosecond Pulse Recoding and Regeneration by a Two-Photon Gated Periodic Diffractive Optics	777	(3)
H. Nishioka
H. Tomita
K.-I. Ueda
Linewidth and RIN Measurements of Longitudinal Modes in Ultrahigh-Speed Mode-Locked Laser Diodes	780	(3)
K. Haneda
H. Yokoyama
Y. Ogawa
M. Nakazawa
Charge Generation in Inorganic/Organic Photovoltaic Blends	783	(3)
S. Westenhoff
S.C. Hayes
N.C. Greenham
C. Silva
Enhanced Polariton Decay in LiNb03 Due to Stimulated Emission of Acoustic Phonons	786	(3)
J. Hebling
A.G. Stepanov
G. Almasi
J. Kuhl
Ultrafast Electrooptic Deflector Using Quasi-Velocity-Matching	789	(3)
K. Shibuya
S. Hisatake
H. Kitano
T. Kobayashi
Ultrafast Control of a Surface Plasmon Resonance via the Insulator to Metal Transition in VO2 Nanoparticles	792	(3)
M. Rini
A. Cavalleri
R. Lopez
L.A. Boatner
R.F. Haglund Jr.
T.E. Haynes
L.C. Feldman
R.W. Schoenlein
External Generation of Flat Power-Envelope THz Modulation Sidebands from a CW Laser Based on an Electrooptic Phase Modulator	795	(6)
S. Hisatake
Y. Nakase
K. Shibuya
M. Tobinaga
T. Kobayashi
Part XII Microfabrication by Femtosecond Laser Pulses
3D Photonic Devices Fabricated in Glass by a Femtosecond Oscillator	801	(3)
A.M. Kowalevicz
V. Sharma
E.P. Ippen
J.G. Fujimoto
K. Minoshima
Writing of Photonic Devices and Waveguide Lasers by a Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Oscillator	804	(3)
R. Osellame
N. Chiodo
G. Della Valle
S. Taccheo
R. Ramponi
G. Cerullo
A. Killi
U. Morgner
M. Lederer
D. Kopf
Toward the Fabrication of Hybrid Polymer/Metal Three-Dimensional Microstructures	807	(3)
T. Baldacchini
C.N. LaFratta
R.A. Farrer
A.C. Pons
J. Pons
M.J. Naughton
B.E.A. Saleh
M.C. Teich
J.T. Fourkas
Production of 3D, Dichroitic Microstructures in Nanocomposite Glasses by Femtosecond Laser Pulses	810	(3)
G. Seifert
A.V. Podlipensky
A. Abdolvand
J. Lange
H. Graener
Micrometer and Sub-Micrometer Structures Fabrication and Analysis with Femtosecond Laser Micro-Nanomachining System	813	(3)
E. Vanagas
J. Kawai
Y. Zaparozhchanka
D. Tuzhilin
H. Musasa
P.l Rutkovski
I. Kudryashov
S. Suruga
Femtosecond Laser Effects on Osseous Tissues	816	(3)
B. Girard
D. Yu
M.R. Armstrong
B.C. Wilson
C.M.L. Clokie
R.J.D. Miller
Femtosecond Laser Material Processing: How short is short?	819	(3)
Y. Prior
K. Zhang
V. Batenkov
Y. Paskover
I.S. Averbukh
F. Korte
C. Fallnich
Diode-Pumped Cr3+:LiCAF Laser for Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography	822	(3)
P.C. Wagenblast
T.H. Ko
V. Sharma
U. Morgner
J.G. Fujimoto
F.X. Kaertner
Time-Resolved Electron Imaging of Femtosecond Laser Ablation	825	(6)
Y. Okano
Y. Hironaka
K.-I. Kondo
K.G. Nakamura
Part XIII Frequency Stabilization and Ultrawide Frequency Comb
A New Ultrastable Cesium Optical Atomic Clock with a 9.1926-GHz Regeneratively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser	831	(3)
M. Yakabe
K. Nito
M. Yoshida
M. Nakazawa
Y. Koga
K. Hagimoto
T. Ikegami
Frequency Transfer of Optical Standards ?hrough a Fiber Network Using 1550-nm Mode-Locked Sources	834	(3)
K.W. Holman
D.J. Jones
R.J. Jones
J. Ye
Femtosecond Laser Optical Frequency Synthesizers with Uncertainty at the 10--19 Level	837	(3)
L.-S. Ma
Z. Bi
A. Bartels
L. Robertsson
M. Zucco
R. Windeler
G. Wilpers
C. Oates
L. Hollberg
S.A. Diddams
Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs with Linewidths at the 1-Hz Level	840	(3)
A.O. Bartels
S.A. Diddams
C.W. Oates
J.C. Bergquist
L. Hollberg
Frequency Metrology with a Turnkey All-Fiber System	843	(3)
T.R. Schibli
K. Minoshima
F.-L. Hong
H. Inaba
A. Onae
H. Matsumoto
I. Hartl
M.E. Fermann
Optical Frequency Measurement Precision of Femtosecond Laser Optical Comb System and the Stability of its HF Reference Frequency	846	(3)
H. Ito
Y. Li
M. Fujieda
M. Imae
M. Hosokawa
Evaluation of Oscillation Frequency Stability of a Diode Laser Using a fs Laser Optical Comb	849	(6)
H. Kobayashi
T. Nimonji
A. Sawamura
T. Sato
M. Ohkawa
T. Maruyama
T. Yoshino
H. Kunimori
M. Hosokawa
H. Ito
Y. Li
S. Nagano
S. Kawamura
Part XIV Coherent Control and Other Topics
Coherent Cooling of Molecular Vibrational Motion with Laser-Induced Dipole Forces	855	(3)
H. Niikura
P.B. Corkum
D.M. Villeneuve
Molecular Orientation of CH3F Induced by Phase-Controlled Lights	858	(3)
H. Ohmura
F. Itoh
M. Tachiya
Observation and Manipulation of Quantum Interferences in Ladder Climbing	861	(3)
B. Chatel
J. Degert
S. Stock
B. Girard
Adaptive Polarization Control of Molecular Dynamics	864	(3)
T. Brixner
G. Krampert
T. Pfeifer
R. Selle
G. Gerber
M. Wollenhaupt
O. Graefe
C. Horn
D. Liese
T. Baumert
Two-Photon Absorption Imaging with Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses	867	(3)
W.S. Warren
A. Miller
W. Wagner
T. Ye
M. Fischer
G. Yurtsever
Selective Two-Photon Functional Imaging through Scattering Media Based on Binary Phase Shaping	870	(3)
I. Pastirk
J.M. Dela Cruz
M. Comstock
V.V. Lozovoy
M. Dantus
Photon Number Squeezing of Ultrabroadband Pulses Generated by Microstructure Fibers	873	(3)
H. Furumochi
A. Tada
K. Hirosawa
F. Kannari
M. Takeoka
M. Nakazawa
Real-Time, Ultrahigh-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography at 1.5 μm using a Femtosecond Fiber Laser Continuum	876	(3)
N. Nishizawa
Y. Chen
P.-L. Hsiung
V. Sharma
T.H. Ko
E.P. Ippen
J.G. Fujimoto
Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Organic Nanotubes	879	(3)
A. Pugzlys
P.R. Hania
C. Didraga
V.A. Malyshev
J. Knoester
K. Duppen
Ultrafast Molecule to Semiconductor Electron Transfer via Different Anchor Groups in Ultra-High Vacuum	882	(3)
R. Ernstorfer
L. Gundlach
S. Felber
R. Eichberger
C. Zimmermann
W. Storck
F. Willig
Controllability in Dissociative Ionization of Organic Molecules with Pulse-Shaped Intense Laser Fields	885	(3)
H. Yazawa
T. Okamoto
T. Yamanaka
F. Kannari
R. Itakura
K. Yamanouchi
Laser Coulomb Explosion Imaging for Probing Molecular Structure and Dynamics	888	(3)
F. Legare
K.F. Lee
I.V. Litvinyuk
P.W. Dooley
A.D. Bandrauk
D.M. Villeneuve
P.B. Corkum
Ultrafast Electron Transfer via a Bridge-Extended Donor Orbital	891	(3)
R. Ernstorfer
L. Gundlach
S. Felber
W. Storck
R. Eichberger
C. Zimmermann
F. Willig
Multiple Ionization of Atoms by 25 and 7 fs Laser Pulses	894	(3)
A. Rudenko
B. Feuerstein
K. Zrost
V.L.B. de Jesus
C.D. Schroter
R. Moshammer
J. Ullrich
Time Resolved, Phase-Matched Harmonic Generation from Exploding Noble Gas Clusters	897	(4)
B. Shim
G. Hays
M. Fomyts'kyi
A. Arefiev
B.s Breizman
T. Ditmire
M.C. Downer
Index of Contributors	901