Ultrafast Phenomena XVI

from multiple molecular orbitals of N.- Ultrafast Multiphoton Crystallography.- Direct Measurement of Angle-Dependent Single Photon Ionization of N and CO.- Field-free unidirectional molecular rotation.- Attosecond coincidence spectroscopy of diatomic molecules.- Real-time Evolution of the Valence Orbitals in a Dissociating Molecule as Revealed by Femtosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy.- Transient Waveguiding in a Rotationally Excited Molecular Gas.- Molecular Recollision Interferometry in High Harmonic Generation.- Multi-Electron Dynamics in Molecular High Harmonic Generation.- Probing the dynamics of plasma mirrors on the attosecond time scale.- Shaping Entangled Photon Pairs.- Ultrafast X-ray and Electron Science.- Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Polar Solids Studied by Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction.- Atomic Motion in Laser Excited Bismuth Studied with Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction.- Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction Study of the Ultrafast Coupling between Magnetization and Structure in the Ferromagnet SrRuO.- Electron-Phonon Energy Transfer in Bismuth Observed by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction.- Atomic View of the Photoinduced Collapse of Gold and Bismuth.- Four-dimensional Visualization of Transitional Structures in Phase Transformations by Electron Diffraction.- Ultrashort soft x-ray pulses from a femtosecond slicing source for time-resolved laser pump- x-ray probe experiments.- Femtosecond X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of a Photoinduced Spin-Crossover Process.- Probing Reaction Dynamics of Transition-Metal Complexes via Time-Resolved Soft X-ray Spectroscopy.- Sub-20-fs Optical Pump-X-ray Probe Spectroscopy beyond the Si K Edge.- Capturing Transient Solute Structures in Solution by Pulsed X-ray Diffraction.- Structural kinetics in protein-coated gold nanoparticles probed by time-resolved x-ray scattering.- X-ray induced transient optical reflectivity for fs-X-ray/optical cross-correlation at Free-Electron Lasers.- Autocorrelation Experiments with Soft X-ray FEL Pulses.- Ultrafast coherent X-ray diffractive imaging with the FLASH Free-Electron Laser.- Lensless Microscopy and Holography with 60 nm Resolution using Tabletop Coherent Soft X-Rays.- Nanoscale Heat Transport Probed with Ultrafast Soft X-Rays.- Relativistic attosecond electron pulses from cascaded acceleration using ultra-intense radially polarized laser beams.- Attosecond Free Electron Pulses for Diffraction and Microscopy.- Electronically Driven Structural Dynamics of Si Resolved by Femtosecond Electron Diffraction.- Picosecond electron deflectometry of optical-field ionized plasmas.- Correlated Electron Systems, Magnetization and Spin Dynamics.- Clocking the Collapse of a Mott Gap.- Coherent Orbital Waves in Manganites.- Ultrafast terahertz response driven by photoinduced insulator to metal transition in layered organic salt.- Photo-induced macroscopic oscillation between insulator and metal in layered organic Mott insulator.- THz Slow Motion of an Ultrafast Insulator-Metal Transition in VO: Coherent Structural Dynamics and Electronic Correlations.- Nonthermal Melting of Orbital Order in LaSrMnO by Coherent Excitation of a Mn-O Stretching Mode.- Ultrafast Gigantic Photo-Response in Charge-Ordered Organic Salt (EDO-TTF)PF on 10-fs time scales.- Teasing a Quasiparticle: Ultrafast Nonlinear Response of the Fröhlich Polaron in GaAs.- Time-resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Photoinduced Insulator-Metal Transition in a Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganite.- X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy on the fs Time Scale: Ultrafast Electron and Spin Dynamics in Nickel.- Ultrafast Photoinduced Ferromagnetic Order in a Magnetic Semiconductor Heterostructure.- Non-equilibrium spin-dynamics of Gd(0001) studied by time-resolved SHG and magnetic linear dichroism in 4f core-level photoemission.- Ultrafast Spin Control by Charge-separated States in Colloidal ZnO Quantum Dots.- Ultrafast electronic and spin dynamics in thin iron films: electron-magnon and electron-phonon interactions.- Laser Induced Alignment of Water Spin Isomers.- Memory Effects in Photo-induced Femtosecond Magnetization Rotation in a Ferromagnetic Semiconductor.- Physics - Condensed Phase and Low Dimensional Systems.- Transient Dielectric Function of Fs-Laser Excited Bismuth.- Coherent and Phonons of Antimony.- Mode selective Excitation of Coherent Phonons in Bismuth by Femotosecond Pulse Pair.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron-Hole Plasma Coupled to Optical Phonons in a ZnO Thin Film.- Large-amplitude coherent phonons in semimetals.- Laser-Induced Undoing of a Peierls Distortion.- Ultrafast dynamics of coherent optical phonons in a-quartz.- Influence of Lattice Heating Time on Strain Wave Dynamics in InSb.- Soft X-Ray Thomson Scattering in Warm Dense Matter at FLASH.- Magnon-Enhanced Phonon Damping at Gd(0001) and Tb(0001) surfaces.- Ultrafast Coherent Interactions in Quantum Wells Studied by Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy.- Two-quantum Two-dimensional Fourier Transform Electronic Spectroscopy of Biexcitons in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Three-Pulse Echo Peak Shift Spectroscopy of Disordered Semiconductor Quantum Wells and Dense Atomic Vapors.- Coherently controlled ballistic charge currents in unbiased bulk silicon and single-walled carbon nanotubes.- Ultrafast dynamics of coherent phonons in the aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes.- Evidence for electron correlation in (6,5) carbon nanotubes from pump-probe spectroscopy with broadband pulses.- Ultrafast Relaxation of Excited Dirac Fermions in Epitaxial Graphene.- Radiationless Transitions and Angular Momentum Transfer in Semiconductor Nanocrystals.- Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanowires.- Time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy in graphite.- Exciton Dephasing in Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.- On the Absence of Carrier Multiplication in InAs Core/Shell/Shell Nanocrystals.- Temporal dynamics of polaritons in a stronglycoupled organic-semiconductor microcavity.- Three-Dimensional Electronic Four Wave-Mixing Spectroscopy in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Ultrafast carrier dynamics in spherical CdSe core/elongated CdS shell nanocrystals.- Time-Resolved Optical Studies of InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Wells in High Magnetic Fields.- Femtosecond Formation of Ultrastrong Light-Matter Interaction.- Ultrafast Bleaching and Gain in a Single Semiconductor Quantum Dot.- Probing coherent optical phonons by Extreme Ultraviolet radiation based on high-order harmonic generation.- Chemistry - Condensed Phase.- Real-Time Monitoring of Structural Evolution in -Stilbene Photoisomerization Time-Domain Raman Spectroscopy.- Origin of Negative and Dispersive Features in Resonance Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy.- Reactive Dynamics in Nanoscale Water droplets Confined in Inverse Micelles.- Symmetry Dependent Solvation of Donor-Substituted Triarylboranes.- Substitution- and Temperature-Effects on Hemithioindigo Photoisomerization - The Relevance of Energy Barriers.- Vibrational Coherence Decay in Metal Carbonyls: Solvent Dependence of Coherence Lifetimes Studied with MDIR.- Generation of Narrowband Ultrashort Pulses Tunable in the mid-IR and the Application to Vibrational Energy Transfer in a Modified Amino Acid.- Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics of J- and H- Aggregates of Porphyrin Catechol in Aqueous Solution.- Chirp Effect on Vibrational Wave Packets in Large Molecules: a Multimode Perspective.- Determining Vibrational Huang-Rhys Factors by Photon Echo Spectroscopy.- Observation of High-Frequency Coherent Vibrational Motion with Strongly Chirped Probe Pulses.- Coherent Transfer of Molecular Vibrations in the Electronic Excited States.- Ultrafast Isomerization Dynamics of Biomimetic Photoswitches.- Broadband femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion and photon echo experiments in the UV.- Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Redistribution Measured by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Experiments in a Hollow Waveguide.- Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy of N,N-Dimethyladenine: New Explanation of the "Dual Fluorescence" Dynamics from Decay and Rise Time Measurements at Threshold.- Assignment of the Excited-State Infrared-Spectra in the Course of the Ring Opening Reaction of a Photochromic Dihydroazulene.- Time-resolved coincidence imaging of ultrafast molecular dynamics.- Ultrafast time and frequency domain vibrational dynamics of the CaF/HO interface.- Non-Condon vibronic coupling of coherent molecular vibration in MEH-PPV induced by a visible few-cycle pulse laser.- Specific Channel of Energy Dissipation in Carotenoids: Coherent Spectroscopic Study.- Coherent phonons in cyanine dye monomers and J-aggregates.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Na-doped water Clusters.- Electronic Excitations in Pentacene Films: Singlet versus Triplet Dynamics.- Photoreaction from a light generated non-equilibrium state.- Excited-State Nuclear Wavepacket Motion of an Ultrafast Inorganic Molecular Switch.- Femtosecond Electronic Dynamics via a Conical Funnel.- A new technique to measure time-resolved circular dichroism: ultrafast conformational dynamics of 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy.- Chemistry - Advanced Spectroscopy, Molecular Control, Hydrogen Bonding, Liquids and Interfaces.- Automated 2D infrared and electronic spectroscopies using pulse shaping.- Relaxation-Assisted Dual-Frequency Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy: Measuring Distances and Bond Connectivity.- Triggered-exchange Two-dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Metal Carbonyl Photodissociation Dynamics.- Observation of Quantum Coherence in Light-Harvesting Complex II by Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy.- Vibrational Beating in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectra.- Double-Quantum Coherence Spectroscopy of Chromophore Aggregates.- Chain Length Dependence of Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectral Pattern Characteristic to 3-Helix Peptides.- Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of Glycine-L-Alanine-Methylamide.- How do vibrations change their composition upon electronic excitation? - EXSY-T2D-IR measurements challenge DFT calculations..- Propagation and beam geometry effects on 2D Fourier transform spectra of multi-level systems.- Difference 2D-IR spectroscopy on the chromophore in bacteriorhodopsin.- Coherent Control of Retinal Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin in the High Intensity Regime.- Quantum Control of the Photoinduced Wolff Rearrangement of Diazonaphthoquinone in the Condensed Phase Using Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy.- Coherent control of matter waves passing through a conical intersection in ß-carotene.- Mode selective single-beam coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering.- Early Time Vibrationally Hot Ground-State Dynamics in ß-Carotene Investigated with Pump-Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing (Pump-DFWM).- Surface Femtochemistry: Investigation and Optimization of Bond-Forming Chemical Reactions.- Coherent Control of the Exciton Dynamics in the FMO Protein.- Coherent Control of Population Transfer in an Ionic Multilevel System using Phase- and Amplitude-Shaped Femtosecond Pulses.- Coherent control of the efficiency of an artificial light-harvesting complex.- Strong Field Coherent Control Using 2D Spatio-Temporal Mapping.- Control of Excited-State Population and Vibrational Coherence with Shaped-Resonant and Near-Resonant Excitation.- Pump-push-probe transient spectroscopy of isolated conjugated oligomers.- Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Liquid-to- Supercritical Ammonia Studied by Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy.- Probing Intermolecular Couplings in Simulations of the Two-Dimensional Infrared Photon Echo Spectrum of Liquid Water.- Heterogeneous Dynamics of Coupled Vibrations.- Immobilized water in hydrophobic hydration.- Collective Breakdown of H-Bonding in Ice.- The Dynamics of Aqueous Hydroxide Ion Transport Probed via Ultrafast Vibrational Echo Experiments.- Glasslike Behaviour in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions.- Mid-IR-Induced Nuclear Wavepacket Motion of a Hydrogen Bonding System: Effects of Mechanical and Electrical Anharmonic Couplings.- Ultrafast Photodecomposition of Dibenzoyl Peroxide studied by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy.- Electron detachment of OH (aq).- Pathways of Vibrational Relaxation after N-H Stretching Excitation in Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonds.- GHz Longitudinal and Transverse Acoustic Waves and Structural Relaxation Dynamics in Liquid Glycerol.- Frequency dependence of the molecular reorientation of liquid water.- Ultrafast Temperature Jumps in Liquid Water Studied by Infrared-Pump and X-ray Absorption-Probe Spectroscopy.- Influence of the Environment on Reaction Dynamics: Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in the Gas Phase and in Solution.- Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of a molecular monolayer.- Frozen Dynamics and Insulation of Water at the Lipid Interface.- Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of interfacial water.- Ultrafast Dynamics at Liquid Interfaces Investigated with Femtosecond Time-Resolved Multiplex Electronic Sum-Frequency Generation (TR-ESFG) Spectroscopy.- Femtosecond spectral phase shaping for CARS spectroscopy and imaging.- Biological Systems, Molecular Light Harvesting and Charge-Transfer Complexes.- Energy transfer along a poly(Pro) - peptide.- Energy transport in peptide helices around the glass transition.- Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Adenine-Thymine Base Pairs in Hydrated DNA.- Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics in the AppA Blue Light Sensing Protein.- Direct observation of ligand transfer and bond formation in cytochrome oxidase using mid-infrared chirped-pulse upconversion.- Tryptophan Residues as Natural Ultrafast Voltmeters in Retinal Proteins.- Interrogating Fiber Formation Kinetics with Automated 2D-IR Spectroscopy.- Coherent Control of Chirality-Induced 2D Electronic Spectroscopy Signals.- Two-Photon Two-Color Generation of Zeaxanthin Radical Cation in CP29 Light Harvesting Complex.- Rebinding of Proximal Histidine in the Cytochrome ' from Acts as a Molecular Trap for Nitric Oxide.- Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of the Low-Light Adapted Light Harvesting Complex 4.- Three-Pulse Photon Echo Spectroscopy as a Probe of Flexibility and Conformational Heterogeneity in Protein Folding.- Ultrafast Rebinding of CO to Carboxymethyl Cytochrome c Probed by Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy.- Real-time observation of the bond length modulation of carbon double bond during the photoisomerization of bacteriorhodopsin.- Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: Optimization in Model and Nature.- Coherently Controlled Release of Drugs in Ophthalmology.- Light Harvesting, Energy Transfer and Photoprotection in the Fucoxanthin-Chlorophyll Proteins of.- Primary Reaction Dynamics of Green Absorbing Proteorhodopsin WT and D97N Mutant Observed by fs Infrared and Visible Spectroscopy.- Photodynamics of a Collagen Model Peptide.- Ultrafast Charge Migration Following Ionization in Oligopeptides.- Probing Photodynamics of Retinal Protonated Schiff-Base with 7 fs Impulsive Vibrational Spectroscopy.- The 2DIR Spectroscopy on C-D Modes of Leucined Side Chain.- A Time-resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy Study on Adenine/Thymine Based Nucleic Acid Systems.- Mapping Parallel Pathways of Energy Flow in LHCII with Broadband 2D Electronic Spectroscopy.- Dissecting Exciton Dynamics Pathways in Electronic Multidimensional Spectroscopy by Pulse Polarizations.- Photoselection Polarization Experiments Reveal Ultrafast Electron Hopping Between Distinct Aromatic Residues in the Flavoprotein DNA Photolyase.- Quantum Coherence Accelerating Photosynthetic Energy Transfer.- Ultrafast dynamics of light-harvesting function of ß-carotene in carbon nanotube.- Direct Femtosecond Observation of Tight and Loose Ion Pairs upon Photoinduced Bimolecular Electron Transfer.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Dansylated POPAM Dendrimers and Energy Transfer in their Dye Complexes.- Electron Transfer in a Donor/Acceptor System Coupled to the Surface of Metal Oxide Nanoporous Films: Direct vs. Surface Confined Electron Transfer.- Aqueous Proton Transfer Pathways in Bimolecular Acid-Base Neutralization.- The solvated electron dynamics in aqueous bromide studied by three-pulse-spectroscopy.- Naphthalene Bisimides: on the Way to Ultrafast Opto-electronic Devices.- Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration in MEH-PPV Charge-Transfer Complexes.- Photomodulation of Interfacial Electron Transfer by Optical Switches.- Two-color two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy of energy transfer.- Electron Injection Dynamics of Perylene Derivatives into ZnO and TiO Particle Films.- THz Science and Technology, Nano-Optics and Plasmonics.- Dynamic Metamaterials at Terahertz Frequencies.- Effect of Spin-Polarized Electrons on THz Emission from Photoexcited GaAs(111).- Nonlinear Lattice Response Observed Through Terahertz SPM.- Ultrafast Electron Cascades Driven by Intense Femtosecond THz Pulses.- Rabi Oscillations in a Shallow Donor System Driven by Intense THz Radiation.- Nonlinear optical effects in germanium in the THz range: THz-pump - THz-probe measurement of carrier dynamics.- Terahertz Nonlinear Response and Coherent Population Control of Dark Excitons in CuO.- Impact Ionization in InSb studied by THz-Pump-THz-probe spectroscopy.- Single Shot Linear Detection of THz Electromagnetic Fields on the Fs to Ps Scale.- Intense THz Pulses and 11-fs Electro-optic Sampling with a Multi-Branch Er:fiber/Ti:sapphire Hybrid Amplifier.- Frequency selective surface sensor for terahertz bio-sensing applications.- Single cycle THz pulses in 1D and 2D photonic crystal structures.- Terahertz wave from coherent LO phonon in a GaAs/AlAs multiple quantum well under an electric field.- Improved Fast Scanning TeraHz Pulse System.- Ultrafast photoemission electron microscopy: imaging light with electrons on femto-nano scale.- Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Quantum Well States of Pb/Si(111) Investigated by Two-Photon Photoemission.- Direct Visualization of Electron Emission during Femtosecond Laser Ablation.- Attosecond Nanoplasmonic Field Microscope.- Coherent Control of Surface Plasmon Propagation Directions.- Ultrafast Laser-Induced Electron Emission from Field Emission Tips.- Simultaneous Spatial and Temporal Control of Nanooptical Fields.- Nano-Confined Light and Electron Sources Driven by Few-Cycle Optical Pulses.- Nonlinear Optical Response of Metal Nanoantennas.- Near-Field Imaging of Single-Cycle THz Pulses Transmitted Through Sub-Wavelength Metallic Slit Structures.- Nanoscale Optical Microscopy in the Vectorial Focusing Regime.- Ultrafast Wide-Field Fluorescence Microscopy.- Measurement of Dispersion Properties of Silver Nanowires Used as Plasmon Waveguides.- Novel Pulsed Sources: oscillators, amplifiers, nonlinear mixing.- Pulse energies exceeding 20 µJ directly from a femtosecond Yb:YAG oscillator.- Fundamentally Mode-locked 3 GHz Femtosecond Erbium Fiber Laser.- Ultrabroadband Er:fiber Systems and Applications.- Compact high Power Ytterbium based fs-Oscillator-Amplifier System.- Fiber laser pumped high average power singlecycle THz pulse source.- Millijoule Pulse Energy High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Fiber CPA System: Results, Micromachining Application and Scaling Potential.- Femtosecond thin disk lasers with >10 µJ pulse energy for high field physics at multi-megahertz repetition rates.- Ultra-high intensity-High Contrast 300-TW laser at 0.1 Hz repetition rate.- Highly Efficient, Low-Cost Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Cr:LiCAF Lasers.- Environmentally stable 200-fs Yb-doped fiber laser with dispersion compensation by photonic crystal fiber.- Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplification Pumped by the Third Harmonics of a Ti:sapphire Laser.- Sub-10 fs Pulse Generation in Vacuum Ultraviolet Using Chirped Four Wave Mixing in Hollow Fibers.- Generation of High Energy Pulses from a Fiber-based Femtosecond Oscillator.- Femtosecond passively mode-locked fiber lasers using saturable Bragg reflectors.- Noncollinear optical parametric amplification of cw light, continua and vacuum fluctuations.- Modeling of Octave-Spanning Sub-Two-Cycle Titanium:Sapphire Lasers: Simulation and Experiment.- Ultra-Broadband Infrared Pulses from a Potassium-Titanyl Phosphate Optical Parametric Amplifier for VIS-IR-SFG Spectroscopy.- Chirped-pulse Raman amplification for two-color high-intensity laser experiments.- Generation of Broadband mid-infrared Pulses from an Optical Parametric Amplifier.- Optimized 2-micron Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier for High Harmonic Generation.- Generation of sub-20-fs, two-color deep-ultraviolet pulses by four-wave mixing through filamentation in gases.- Efficient ultrafast four-wave optical parametric amplification in condensed bulk media.- Cascaded four-wave mixing technique for highpower few-cycle pulse generation.- 2 MHz repetition rate - 15 fs fiber amplifier pumped optical parametric amplifier.- Octave-wide tunable NOPA pulses at up to 2 MHz repetition rate.- Asymptotic pulse shapes and pulse self-compression in femtosecond filaments.- Efficient and Highly Coherent Extreme-Ultraviolet High-Harmonic Source.- Single-stage Pulse Compression and High-Energy Supercontinuum generation from a Chirped-pulse oscillator.- An All-Optical Synchrotron Light Source.- Compression of an Ultraviolet Pulse by Molecular Phase Modulation and Self-Phase Modulation.- Temporal Optimization of Ultrabroadband Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification.- Third Harmonic X-waves Generation by Filamentation of Infrared Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Air.- Generation and control of coherent conical pulses in seeded optical parametric amplification.- Generation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses Using Multiple Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Signals in a Crystal and Observation of the Raman Phase.- Generation of High-power Visible and UV/VUV Supercontinua and Self-compressed Single-cycle Pulses in Metal-dielectric Hollow Waveguides.- Frequency Combs and Waveform Synthesis.- CEO-Phase Stabilized Few-Cycle Field Synthesizer.- High-power, mHz linewidth Yb:fiber optical frequency comb for high harmonic generation.- High Harmonic Frequency Combs for High Resolution Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast double pulse parametric amplification for precision Ramsey metrology.- Towards Versatile Coherent Pulse Synthesis using a Femtosecond Laser and Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator.- Frequency comb spectroscopy on calcium ions in a linear Paul trap.- Generation of octave-spanning Raman comb stabilized to an optical frequency standard.- Tunable, octave-spannning supercontinuum driven by X-Waves formation in condensed Kerr media..- Toward Ultrafast Optical Waveform Synthesis with a Stabilized Ti:Sapphire Frequency Comb.- Multimillijoule Optically Synchronized and Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Stable Chirped Parametric Amplification at 1.5 µm.- 5-fs multi-mJ CEP-locked parametric chirpedpulse amplifier at 1 kHz.- Sub-two-cycle pulses at 1.6 µm from an optical parametric amplifier.- Carrier envelope offset control of broad Raman sidebands by locking two pump laser frequencies to a single optical cavity.- Cancellation of the coherent accumulation in rubidium atoms excited by a train of femtosecond pulses.- Optics, Optoelectronics, Measurement, Diagnostics and Instrumentation.- Sub-10-fs XUV Tunable Pulses at the Output of a Time-Delay-Compensated Monochromator.- First Step Towards a Femtosecond VUV Microscope: Zone Plate Optics as Monochromator for High-Order Harmonics..- Measurement of Electron Pulse Duration by Attosecond Streaking.- Nanoscale Spatial Effects of Pulse Shaping.- Designer Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Using Grating-Engineered Quasi-Phasematching in Lithium Niobate.- Direct Measurement of Spectral Phase for Ultrashort Laser Pulses Based on Intrapulse Interference.- Two Dimension Spatial Light Modulator with an Over-Two-Octave Bandwidth for High-Powered Monocycle Optical Pulses.- Vector Pulse Shaper Assisted Short Pulse Characterization.- Femtosecond Spectral Interferometry with Attosecond Accuracy by Correction for Spectrometer Resolution Asymmetry.- Spatial phase control and applications of high-order harmonics.- A New Generalized Projections Algorithm Geared Towards Sub-100 Attosecond Pulse Characterization.- Characterization of Mid-Infrared Pulses by Time-Encoded Arrangement.- Intensity and phase measurements of the spatiotemporal electric field of focusing ultrashort pulses.- Polarization, ionization and spatial gates in single attosecond pulse generation.- All dispersive mirrors compressor for femtosecond lasers.- Optical Mapping of Attosecond Ionization Dynamics by Few-Cycle Light Pulses.- Polarization, Phase and Amplitude Control and Characterization of Ultrafast Laser Pulses.- Silicon-Chip-Based Single-Shot Ultrafast Optical Oscilloscope.- Time-resolved off-axis digital holography for characterization of ultrafast phenomena in water.- 3 GHz RF Streak Camera for Diagnosis of sub-100 fs, 100 keV Electron Bunches.- Simulations of Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating for measuring very complex pulses.- Electron density gradient measurement for laser wakefield accelerator.- 10-femtosecond Precision, Long-term Stable Timing Distribution Over Multiple Fiber Links.- Two-dimensional pulse shapers capable of more than phase & amplitude modulation.- Adaptive Phase Shaping in a Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification System.- Two-dimensional Fourier transform electronic spectroscopy with a pulse-shaper.- Probing Anomalous Spectral Diffusion and Exciton Fluctuations by Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy.- Noninterferometric Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy.- Applications of Ultrashort Pulses.- Filament-induced electric events in thunderstorms.- Optimizing laser-induced refractive index changes in "thermal" glasses.- Femtosecond laser fabrication for the integration of optical sensors in microfluidic lab-on-chip devices.- Tailored Femtosecond Pulses for Nanoscale Laser Processing of Dielectrics.- Electric Field Detection of Near-Infrared Light Using Photoconductive Sampl