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SPRINGER Ultrafast Phenomena Xiv Proceedings Of The 14Th International Conference Jiigata Japan July 25-30 2004 2004 Edition by Kobayashi, TADASHI OKADA ET AL
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena held in Niigata, Japan from July 25-30, 2004. 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 300 papers were presented, reporting the forefront of research in ultrashort pulse generation and characterization, including new techniques for shortening the duration of laser pulses, for stabilizing their absolute phase, and for improving tenability over broad wavelength ranges, output powers and peak intensities. Ultrafast spectroscopies, particularly time-resolved X-ray and electron diffraction and two-dimensional spectroscopy, continue to give new insights into fundamental processes in physics, chemistry and biology. Control and optimization of the outcome of ultrafast processes represent another important field of research. There are an increasing number of applications of ultrafast methodology in material diagnostics and processing, microscopy and medical imaging.The enthusiasm of the participants, the involvement of many students, the high quality of the papers in both oral and poster sessions made the conference very successful. Many people and organizations made invaluable contributions. The members of the international program committee reviewed the submissions and organized the program. The staff of the Optical Society of America deserves special thanks for making the meeting arrangements and running the meeting smoothly. Generation and Measurements.- Single-Cycle Optical Pulse Generation.- Toward a terawatt few-optical-cycle driver laser for attosecond spectroscopy.- 2.8-fs clean single transform-limited optical-pulse generation and characterization.- Coherent amplification of femtosecond pulses with passive enhancement cavities.- Temporal and Spatial Pulse Compression in a Nonlinear Defocusing Material.- Intense CEO-stabilized few-cycle laser pulses from supercontinuum generation in filaments.- Generation of ultra-broadband high energy pulses without external amplification.- Sub-10 fs multi-mJ Ti:sapphire laser system with a pressure-gradient hollow fiber.- Generation of 14-fs ultrashort pulse in all fiber scheme by use of highly nonlinear hybrid fiber.- High peak power ultrashort pulse generation using all-fiber chirped pulse amplification system with small core multimode fiber.- Carrier-envelope phase fluctuations of amplified laser pulses transmitted through neon-filled hollow fiber for pulse compression.- Temporal Self-Compression of Intense Femtosecond Pulses Propagating in Argon-Filled Hollow Waveguides.- Stimulated Brillouin scattering in ultrahigh- speed femtosecond soliton pulse compression with a dispersion-decreasing fiber.- Control of the spectral broadening of tens-millijoules laser pulses in an argon-filled hollow fiber using a conjugate pressure gradient.- Microstructured fiber feedback pulse compression to few optical cycles.- Spectral-temporal soliton dynamics analysis near second zero-dispersion point in photonic crystal fibers.- Generation of Rotational Raman Emissions and Self-compressed Femtosecond Pulses in a Hydrogen Gas.- Spectral broadening of 50 milli joule laser pulses in a neon-filled Herriot multiple-pass cell (MPC).- CEO phase preservation in chirped-pulse optical parametric amplification of 17.3-fs pulses.- Long-term stabilization and control of CEP of idler from NOPA.- Experimental and Theoretical Study of a Visible Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplified Pulse with 200 THz Bandwidth.- Tunable wavelength pulse shaping of visible NOPA Outputs with an Acousto-Optic Programmable Dispersive Filter.- Broadband high power optical chirped pulse amplification.- Mid-infrared femtosecond pulse generation by optical parametric amplification under broadband QPM condition.- Achromatic second harmonic generation: tunable ultraviolet pulses with sub-10 fs duration.- Ultrabroad-band noncollinear optical parametric amplification in some new nonlinear optical crystals.- Design of Multilayer Mirrors for the Reflection of Sub-Femtosecond Pulses in the XUV Spectral Region.- Route to design electric fields of optical pulses: A combination of a pulse shaper and a carrier-envelope-phase stabilized chirped-pulse amplifier system.- Towards electric field reconstruction using coherent transients in a two-level System.- Spatiotemporal determination of the absolute phase of few-cycle laser pulses.- Spatial chirp and pulse-front tilt in ultrashort laser pulses and their measurement.- Principal Control Analysis: Gaining Insight from Feedback Learning Algorithms.- Population-split Genetic Algorithm for phase retrieval of ultrafast laser pulses.- Eight-Frame Observation of Propagation Behavior of 0.49-mJ, 45-fs Optical Pulses Generated by a 1-kHz Laser System.- Self-referenced measurement of the complete electric field of ultrashort pulses in time and space.- Pulse-measurement challenges at 1.5 microns: several-cycle pulses and several-element devices.- Single-shot phase measurement by spectral phase interferometry using a streak camera.- FROG measured 185 fs pulses generated by down-chirped dispersion-managed breathing-mode semiconductor laser.- Direct Measurement of the Group Delay Dispersion of Ultrashort pulses utilizing Molecular Vibrations.- Spatially encoded spectral interferometry for complete characterisation of attosecond XUV pulses.- Spatially encoded spectral interferometry for complete characterization of ultrashort pulses.- Full characterization of ultraviolet and visible 10-fs pulses with zero-additional-phase SPIDER.- Direct visualization of transient absorption by real-time pump-probe imaging spectroscopy.- Strong Fields and High Order Harmonics.- Dynamic Molecular Imaging.- Femtosecond electron diffraction: Towards making the "molecular movie".- Absolute Displacement Interferometry of Ultrafast Laser-Produced Plasma Expansion.- Electron acceleration through spatiotemporal shaping of ultrashort light pulses.- Mapping attosecond electron wave packet motion.- Quasi-monoenergetic electron beam generation in laser-driven plasma acceleration.- Control of multiphoton ionization processes in aligned I2 molecules by optimizing time-dependent polarization of femtosecond pulses.- Tomographic Imaging of Molecular Orbital with High Harmonic Generation.- Femtosecond Infrared Vibrational Up-Pumping of Liquid Phase W(CO)6.- Ultrafast X-ray diffraction.- Quasi-phase matching of high harmonic generation in the "water window" soft x-ray region.- Adaptive engineering of coherent soft x-rays.- Generation of strong soft x-ray field based on high-order harmonics.- Generation of sub-4-fs high harmonic pulses and their application to the above-threshold ionization.- Coherent imaging of laser-plasma interactions using high-harmonic EUV Light.- High-Order Harmonic Generation from Argon Ions up to 250 eV.- High-Order Harmonic Generation from Femtosecond Laser-Aligned Molecules.- Efficient generation of high-order sum and difference frequencies in the XUV region by combining a weak, longer-wavelength field.- Effects of Target Condition on Solid Surface Harmonics in the Extreme Ultraviolet Range.- Control of the frequency chirp rate of high harmonic pulses.- Wavefront Control in High Harmonics Generation with Few- and Many-optical-cycle Laser Pulses.- Phase-driven strong-field processes in the multi-optical-cycle regime.- Bright high-order harmonic generation at 13 nm and coherence measurement.- Attosecond Pulse Generation During the Laser Pulse Reflection at the Plasma-Vacuum Interface.- Energetic Proton and Deuteron Generation from a Microporous Polytetrafluoroethylene Film with Deuterated Polystyrene using a 2.4-TW Table-Top Laser.- High-energy protons emitted from a polymer-coated metal foil by 60-fs laser irradiation.- Estimation of proton source size generated by ultraintense laser pulses using a Thomson mass spectrometer.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Solid 1 (Phonon and Exciton).- Imaging Nanostructures with Picosecond Ultrasonic Pulses.- Ultrahigh frequency acoustic phonon generation and spectroscopy with Deathstar pulse shaping.- Probing of Thermo-Acoustic Transients in Materials Using EUV Radiation.- Ultrafast dynamics of coherent electron-phonon interaction in silicon.- Generation of Coherent Zone Boundary Phonons by Impulsive Excitation of Molecules.- Amplitude Collapse -Revival of Chirped Coherent Phonons under High-density Optical Excitation.- Intense coherent optical phonons driven by impulsive excitonic interference under electric fields.- Phonon-polariton Based THz Spectroscopy.- Excitonic quantum beats dressed with coherent phonons.- Evidence of higher-order nonlinearities in excitonic FWM signals in microscopic theory and experiment.- Ultrafast Anisotropic Processes of Exciton Magnetic Polarons in CdTe/CdMnTe Quantum Wires.- Time-resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy of excitons in Cu2O.- Exciton dynamics in pentacene and tetracene studied using optical pump-probe spectroscopy.- Dephasing suppression of excitons in semiconductors.- Dynamical Stark effect of excitons in Cu2O by resonant pulsed excitation of the 1s-2p transition.- Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration and Exciton Regeneration at Polymeric Semiconductor Heterojunctions.- Exciton diffusion dynamics in an organic semiconductor nanostructure.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Solid 2.- Carrier-envelope phase controlled quantum interference in a semiconductor.- Phase-resolved nonlinear response of modulation-doped quantum wells under femtosecond intersubband excitation.- Ultrafast Intersubband Relaxation and Carrier Cooling in GaN/AlN multiple quantum wells.- Polaritonics in complex structures: Confinement, bandgap materials, and coherent control.- Detection of four-wave mixing signal from single layer quantum dots.- Wavepacket Interferometry and Wavepacket Dynamics in Condensed Phase.- Femtosecond wavepacket dynamics of potassium adsorbate on Pt(111).- Control of tunnel ionization in molecules by intense femtosecond laser pulses with time-dependent polarization.- Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Dynamics in the Colossal Magnetoresistance Pyrochlore Tl2Mn2O7.- Femto-magnetism visualized in three dimensions.- Photo-induced demagnetization observed by time-resolved mid-infrared transmittance spectroscopy in Ga0.94Mn0.06As.- Optically Induced Magnetization and Ultrafast Spin Dynamics of Magnetic Ions in Ionic Crystals.- Dynamic coupling-decoupling crossover in the current-driven vortex-state in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 studied using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.- Ultrafast light induced Charge disordering around phase transition temperature in 2D spin ladder compound NaV2O5.- Correlation of the Electronic Transitions in Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes.- Ultrafast radial transport in a micron-scale aluminum plasma excited at relativistic intensity.- Chirp Control of Free Carrier Dynamics in GaAs.- Ultrafast insulator-to-metal switching by photoinduced Mott transition.- Femtosecond Near Edge X-ray Absorption Measurement of the VO2 Phase Transition..- Phase Transition in strongly-correlated VO2: Time-domain Assignment of Cause and Effect.- Polarization-dependent phenomenon induced by the interaction between focused femtosecond laser and transparent materials.- Investigation on the parameters of dense electronic plasma induced by femtosecond laser in fused silica.- Dynamical Symmetry Breaking induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses in KTaO3.- Ultrafast Dynamics in Solution.- Sub-20-fs study of energy relaxation in carotenoids in solution and inside light harvesting complexes.- Energy flow in carotenoids, studied with pump-deplete-probe, multiphoton and coherent control spectroscopy.- Amplitude spectra of molecular vibration modes in phthalocyanine: comparison with Raman excitation profile.- Real-time tracking of the peaks in transition difference spectra during vibrational periods in PDA.- Time-resolved CARS studies of vibrational coherences in the condensed phase: I2 in solid krypton.- Measurement of Conical Intersection Dynamics by Impulsive Femtosecond Polarization Spectroscopy.- Vibrational Phase Characterization in Femtosecond-pumped Molecules by Path-length Modulation.- Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Water-Acetonitrile Mixtures.- Cascaded energy redistribution upon O-H stretching excitation in an intramolecular hydrogen bond.- Pure intermolecular energy relaxation of the OH bending vibration of water molecules dissolved in organic liquids.- Time-resolved spectroscopy of an azobenzene derivative with a small S1-S2 energy gap.- Photo-thermalization dynamics of azulene in supercritical fluids studied by the transient grating method.- Vibrational Self-Trapping in an ?-Helix.- Infrared Photon-Echo Spectroscopy of Water: The Thermalization Effects.- Heterodyne 2D-IR Photon Echo Spectroscopy of Multi-Level OH Stretching Coherences in Hydrogen Bonds.- A unified analysis of ultrafast vibrational and orientational dynamics of HOD in D2O.- Time Resolved Direct Probing of the Change in the Local Solvent Response Following Excitation of a Solute.- Surface Femtochemistry: Photocatalytic Reaction Dynamics of Methanol / TiO2(110).- Three pulse four wave mixing for the study of coherent interactions, nuclear dynamics and solvation dynamics in liquids.- Solvation dynamics of N-methylacetamide in D2O, CDCI3 and DMSO-d6.- Femtosecond Pump-probe Measurements of Solvation Dynamics of Hydrogen-bonding Complexes in Non-associating Solvents.- Novel Time- and Frequency-resolved Double Pump Spectroscopy of Short-lived Precursors: The Solvated Electron in Methanol.- Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy on Aqueous Reverse-Micellar Nano-Droplets.- Pump-probe near-field optical microscopy of molecular aggregates using supercontinuum.- Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation Dynamics of Anions in Reverse Micelles by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy.- Reaction Dynamics in Solution.- Femtochemistry in the electronic groundstate? IR-driven cis-trans isomerization of HONO.- Bimodal Intermolecular Proton Transfer in Acid-Base Neutralization Reactions in Water.- Ultrafast Excitation Energy Migration Processes in Various Porphyrin Arrays..- Energy transfer in phenylene ethynylene dendrimers.- A 40-fs Time-Resolved Absorption Study of Cis-Stilbene in Solution: Observation of Coherent Nuclear Wavepacket Motion in Reactive Excited State.- Monitoring an Ultrafast Photo-Isomerization by Femtosecond Fluorescence, Absorption, and IR Spectroscopy.- From ultrafast spectroscopy to bidirectional molecular switches: DHA/VHF.- 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.- Real-time spectroscopy of charge-transfer excitation in phthalocyanine tin dichloride.- Coherent nuclear dynamics coupled with electron transfer reaction in porphyrin-ferrocence dyads.- Subpicosecond Pulse Radiolysis Study on Geminate Ion Recombination Process in n-Dodecane.- Fast Spin Dynamics of Optically Induced Magnetization in Aqueous Solutions of Magnetic Ions.- Vibrational excitation and energy redistribution after ultrafast intramolecular proton transfer of TINUVIN.- Coherent Nuclear Motion in Reacting Molecules: Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Proton Transfer in Solution.- Ultrafast double proton transfer: symmetry breaking wavepacket motion and absence of deuterium isotope effect.- Photodissociation dynamics studied via Time-Resolved Coincidence Imaging Spectroscopy.- Femtosecond Photo-induced Dissociation of the Trihalide Anions I3? and I2Br? in Solution.- Coherent control of non-radiative transitions: long-range electron transfer.- Teaching lasers to twist molecules.- Quantum control of a chiral molecular motor driven by linearly polarized laser pulses.- Numerical Synthesis of Optimal Laser Pulses for Manipulating Dissociation Wave Packets of I2? in Water.- Molecular State Reconstruction by Nonlinear Wave Packet Interferometry.- Femtosecond coherent spectroscopic study of Zn(II) porphyrin by chirping-controlled ultrashort pulses.- Phase analysis of vibrational wavepackets in the ground and the excited states in polydiacetylene.- Calculating Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Signals from Molecules in Cryogenic Matrices.- Real-Time Observation of Phase -Controlled Vibrational Wave-packets in Iodine Molecules.- Single-shot Transient Absorption of I3? in Solutions and Glasses.- Multiview and Multi-Dimensional Spectroscopy.- Dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water: Vibrational echoes and two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy.- Dual-Frequency 2D IR Photon Echo of a Hydrogen Bond.- 2D-IR spectroscopy of transient species.- Resolving Conformations of Acetylproline-NH2 by Coherent 2D IR Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of rotaxanes.- Thermal denaturing of proteins: Equilibrium and transient studies using nonlinear infrared probes.- Two-Dimensional Optical Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Molecular Complexes.- 2-Dimensional Measurement of the Solvent Intermolecular Response in Solvation.- Two-dimensional femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy using a chirped supercontinuum generated from a photonic crystal fiber.- Two-dimensional spectroscopy by spectrally resolved real-time resonant coherent Raman scattering in polydiacetylene.- Optical Two-dimensional Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Wells.- Degenerate four-wave mixing spectroscopy based on two dimensional pulse shaping.- Propagation and detection distortions of four-wave mixing signals: application to 2D spectroscopy.- Fourier Transform Measurement of Two-Photon Excitation Spectra: Applications to Microscopy and Quantum Control.- Biology.- Watching proteins function with picosecond time-resolved X-ray crystallography.- Energy transfer pathways in Photosystem I studied by one and two color photon echo spectroscopy.- Dynamics of Carotenoids Probed by Femtosecond Absorption, Fluorescence, and Raman Spectroscopy.- Multi-Pulse Transient Absorption and Carotenoid Excited-State Dynamics: ?-Carotene.- Observation and control of all-trans-?-carotene wavepacket motion using pump-degenerate four-wave mixing.- Vibrational and Electronic Coherence Observed in Two-Dimensional Integrated Three-Pulse Photon Echo.- Photon Echo Study of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Strength in Molecules and Molecular Aggregates.- Time and Frequency Domain Investigations on Ultrafast Photoisomerization Reaction Dynamics of PYP.- Entire view of coherent oscillations in ultrafast fluorescence for photoactive yellow protein.- Ultrafast excited and ground-state isomerization dynamics of the Green Fluorescent Protein chromophore in solution.- Optimal Control of Femtosecond Photoisomerization of Retinal in Rhodopsin: Effects of Conical Intersections.- Ultrafast polarization and vibrational motions in bacteriorhodopsin studied by coherent infrared emission spectroscopy.- Excited-state dynamics of the 1Bu+, 3Ag?, and 1Bu? states in all-trans-spirilloxanthin as revealed by sub-5-fs time-resolved absorption spectroscopy.- Ultrafast relaxation inside proteins: Calculation and measurement of electron-vibration coupling in enzymes.- Direct observations of ligand rebinding trajectories in myoglobin by femtosecond mid-IR spectroscopy.- Coherent vibrational climbing in carboxy-hemoglobin.- Evidence for non-separating four-point correlation functions from IR pump-probe spectroscopy of CO in a protein internal cavity.- The CO oscillator as a probe of ligand dissociation dynamics in myoglobin.- A 2DIR study of backbone structure and dynamics of a dipeptide in membrane.- Engineering cost function for optimizing coherent control between processes with different nonlinearities.- Ultrafast Nanostructure Photonics and Plasmon.- Imaging of localized silver plasmon dynamics with sub-fs time and nano-meter spatial resolution.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Light Transmission Through Plasmonic Crystals.- Ultrafast Near-Field Microscope Imaging of Electron and Phonon Relaxation in Single Gold Nanoparticle.- Plasmon enhanced ultrafast optical transmission in metallic nano-arrays.- Excitation and propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on metallic periodic structures.- Ultrafast dynamics of periodic arrays of holes in a gold film.- Surface plasmon assisted 26 fs, 0.4 keV electron pulse generation.- Space-Time Control in Ultrafast Nano-Optics.- Coherent Control of Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Nanostructures.- SPASER as Ultrafast Nanoscale Phenomenon and Device.- Ultrafast quenching of ring closure in molecular switches, self-assembled on gold nanoparticles.- Terahertz Wave and Applications.- Temporal spectroscopic behavior of terahertz pulses transmitted through metal hole arrays.- Surface-plasmon-polariton enhanced tunneling of THz radiation through arrays of sub-wavelength apertures.- Terahertz Access to the Nanoworld.- Terahertz surface plasmon polariton coupling on metallic grating structures.- Control of THz transmission through two-dimensional metallic photonic crystals.- Teflon photonic crystal fiber as polarization-preserving waveguide in THz region.- Generation of coherent tunable THz waves by using birefringent crystal and grating pair.- Ultra-wide bandwidth THz emission from a semiconductor irradiated with intense, radially-polarized, Bessel-Gauss pulses.- Mechanism crossover of terahertz radiation from InAs surface induced by a magnetic field at high density excitation.- Transient Grating Generation and Waveform Shaping of Free-Space Propagating, Picosecond, Narrow-Band THz Radiation.- Typesetting THz Waveforms.- Magnetically induced evolution of terahertz radiation spectrum emitted from InAs up to 27T.- A Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter with a Tuning Range of over 360 degrees around 1 THz.- Cooper pair breaking dynamics in MgB2 using optieal-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy.- Femtosecond formation of phonon-plasmon coupled modes studied by ultrabroadband THz spectroscopy.- Solid-state phase transition onset detection in estrogen-like chemical via terahertz transmission spectroscopy.- Maximum Entropy Method for Misplacement Phase Error Correction in Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy.- Pulsed terahertz spectroscopy and imaging applied to inspection of explosives and inflammable liquids.- Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of surface plasmon polaritons on semiconductor surfaces.- Evaluation of Complex Optical Constants of Semiconductor Wafers Using Terahertz Ellipsometry.- Terahertz two-dimensional spectroscopic imaging with a high speed CMOS camera.- Single-shot terahertz imaging.- Ultrabroadband detection of multi-THz field transients with GaSe electro-optic sensors.- Terahertz field detection beyond 30 THz by proton-bombarded InP photoconductive antennas.- THz Wave Near-Field Emission Microscope.- Optoelectronics and Other Applications.- Optimization of a 40 GHz regeneratively and harmonically mode-locked fiber laser under PLL operation and its longitudinal mode characteristics.- Femtosecond Synchronization of RF-Signals with Optical Pulse Trains.- Fast photo-induced phase switching in organic conductor crystal; (EDO-TTF)2PF6.- Molecular phase-to-amplitude converter using femtosecond wave packet engineering.- Femtosecond pulse recoding and regeneration by a two-photon gated periodic diffractive optics.- Linewidth and RIN measurements of longitudinal modes in ultrahigh-speed mode-locked laser diodes.- Charge Generation in Inorganic/Organic Photovoltaic Blends.- Enhanced polariton decay in LiNbO3 due to stimulated emission of acoustic phonons.- Ultrafast Electrooptic Deflector Using Quasi-Velocity-Matching.- Ultrafast Control of a Surface Plasmon Resonance via the Insulator to Metal Transition in VO2 Nanoparticles.- External Generation of Flat Power-envelope THz Modulation Sidebands from a CW Laser based on an Electrooptic Phase Modulator.- Microfabrication by Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- 3D photonic devices fabricated in glass by a femtosecond oscillator.- Writing of photonic devices and waveguide lasers by a diode-pumped femtosecond oscillator.- Toward the Fabrication of Hybrid Polymer/Metal Three-Dimensional Microstructures.- Production of 3D, dichroitic microstructures in nanocomposite glasses by femtosecond laser pulses.- Micrometer and sub-micrometer structures fabrication and analysis with femtosecond laser micro-nanomachining system.- Femtosecond Laser Effects on Osseous Tissues.- Femtosecond Laser Material Processing - How Short is Short?.- Diode-pumped Cr3+:LiCAF Laser for Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography.- Time-resolved electron imaging of femtosecond laser ablation.- Frequency Stabilization and Ultrawide Frequency Comb.- A new ultrastable cesium optical atomic clock with a 9.1926-GHz regeneratively mode-locked fiber laser.- Frequency transfer of optical standards through a fiber network using 1550-nm mode-locked sources.- Femtosecond laser optical frequency synthesizers with uncertainty at the 10?19 level.- Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs with linewidths at the 1-Hz Level.- Frequency metrology with a turnkey all-fiber system.- Optical frequency measurement precision of femtosecond laser optical comb system and the stability of its HF reference frequency.- Evaluation of oscillation frequency stability of a diode laser using a fs laser optical comb.- Coherent Control and Other Topics.- Coherent cooling of molecular vibrational motion with laser-induced dipole forces.- Molecular orientation of CH3F induced by phase-controlled lights.- Observation and manipulation of quantum interferences in ladder climbing.- Adaptive polarization control of molecular dynamics.- Two-photon absorption imaging with shaped femtosecond laser pulses.- Selective two-photon functional imaging through scattering media based on binary phase shaping.- Photon number squeezing of ultrabroadband pulses generated by microstructure fibers.- Real-time, ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography at 1.5 m using a femtosecond fiber laser continuum.- Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Organic Nanotubes.- Ultrafast molecule to semiconductor electron transfer via different anchor groups in ultra-high vacuum.- Controllability in dissociative ionization of organic molecules with pulse-shaped intense laser fields.- Laser Coulomb explosion imaging for probing molecular structure and dynamics.- Ultrafast electron transfer via a bridge-extended donor orbital.- Multiple Ionization of Atoms by 25 and 7 fs Laser Pulses.- Time Resolved, Phase-Matched Harmonic Generation from Exploding Noble Gas Clusters.