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I Generation and Measurement Techniques.- The Soliton Laser.- Soliton Shaping Mechanisms in Passively Mode-Locked Lasers and Negative Group Velocity Dispersion Using Refraction.- Compression and Shaping of Femtosecond Pulses.- Generation of 0.41-Picosecond Pulses by the Single-Stage Compression of Frequency Doubled Nd:YAG Laser Pulses.- Compression of Mode-Locked Nd:YAG Pulses to 1.8 Picoseconds.- Effects of Cavity Dispersion on Femtosecond Mode-Locked Dye Lasers.- 3 MHz Amplifier for Femtosecond Optical Pulses.- Colliding Pulse Femtosecond Lasers and Applications to the Measurement of Optical Parameters.- High Average Power Mode-Locked Co:MgF2 Laser.- High Power Picosecond Pulses in the Infrared.- Stimulated VUV Radiation from HD Excited by a Picosecond ArF* Laser.- Procedure for Calculating Optical Pulse Compression from Fiber-Grating Combinations.- Generation of Infrared Picosecond Pulses Between 1.2µm and 1.8µm Using a Traveling Wave Dye Laser.- A New Picosecond Source in the Vibrational Infrared.- Generation of Intense, Tunable Ultrahort Pulses in the Ultraviolet Using a Single Escimer Pump Laser.- Travelling Wave Pumped Ultrashort Pulse Distributed Feedback Dye Laser.- Picosecond Pulses from Future Synchrotron-Radiation Sources.- High Repetition Rate Production of Picosecond Pulses at Wavelength Eastman #5 Saturable Dye.- Limits to Pulse Advance and Delay in Actively Modelocked Lasers.- Novel Method of Waveform Evaluation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses.- Noise in Picosecond Laser Systems: Actively Mode Locked CW Nd3+:YAG and Ar+ Lasers Synchronously Pumping Dye Lasers.- High Power, Picosecond Phase Coherent Pulse Sequences by Injection Locking.- Passive Mode-Locking with Reverse Saturable Absorption.- II Solid State Physics and Nonlinear Optics.- Imaging with Femtosecond Optical Pulses.- Femtosecond Multiphoton Photoelectron Emission from Metals.- Time-Resolved Laser-Induced Phase Transformation in Aluminum.- Picosecond Photoemission Studies of Laser-Induced Phase Transitions in Silicon.- Dynamics of Dense Electron-Hole Plasma and Heating of Silicon Lattice Under Picosecond Laser Irradiation.- Dynamics of the Mott Transition in CuCI with Subpicosecond Time Resolution.- Picosecond Dynamics of Hot Dense Electron-Hole Plasmas in Crystalline and Amorphized Si and GaAs.- Picosecond Optical Excitation of Phonons in Amorphous As2Te3.- Femtosecond Studies of Intraband Relaxation of Semiconductors and Molecules.- Picosecond Laser Studies of Noneqilibrium Electron Heating in Copper.- Picosecond Measurement of Hot Carrier Luminescence in In0.53Ga0.47As.- Picosecond Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors.- Picosecond Dephasing and Energy Relaxation of Excitons in Semiconductors.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Correlated Electron-Hole Pair Distributions in Room-Temperature GaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structures.- Femtosecond Transient Anisotropy in the Absorption Saturation of GaAs.- Holographic Interferometry Using Twenty-Picosecond UV Pulses to Obtain Time Resolved Hydro Measurements of Selenium and Gold Plasmas.- Temporal Development of Absorption Spectra in Alkali Halide Crystals Subsequent to Band-Gap Excitation.- Kinetics of Free and Bound Excitons in Semiconductors.- Determination of Surface Recombination Velocities for CdS Crystals Immersed in Electrolyte Solutions by a Picosecond Photoluminescence Technique.- Pulsewidth Dependence of Various Bulk Phase Transitions and Morphological Changes of Crystalline Silicon Irradiated by 1 Micron Picosecond Pulses.- Subthreshold Picosecond Laser Damage in Silicon Associated with Charge Emission.- Third-Order Nonlinear Susceptibilities of Dye Solutions Determined by Non-Phasematched Third Harmonic Generation.- Excitation Transport and Trapping in a Two-Dimensional Disordered System: Cresyl Violet on Quartz.- Temporal Dependence of Third-Order Non-Linear Optical Susceptibilities of Fused Quartz and Liquid CCl4.- High Excitation Electron Dynamics in GaInAsP.- Picosecond Nonlinear-Optical Limiting in Silicon.- Nonlinear Absorption and Nonlinear Refraction Studies in MEBBA.- High Density Carrier Generation in Indium Antimonide.- Measurement of Two-Photon Cross-Section in DABCO with the Use of Picosecond Pulses.- III Coherent Pulse Propagation.- Coherence Effects in Pump-Probe Measurements with Collinear, Copropagating Beams.- Observation of the 0? Pulse.- Picosecond Two-Color Photon Echoes in Doped Molecular Solids.- Subpicosecond Accumulated Photon Echoes with Incoherent Light in Nd3+-Doped Silicate Glass.- Femtosecond Dephasing Measurements Using Transient Induced Gratings.- Picosecond Pulse Multiphoton Coherent Propagation in Vapors.- Stimulated Photon Echo for Elastic and Depolarizing Collison Studies.- Coherent Transient Spectroscopy with Ultra-High Time Resolution Using Incoherent Light.- IV Stimulated Scattering.- Interaction-Induced, Subpicosecond Phenomena in Liquids.- Transient Infrared Spectroscopy on the Picosecond and Sub-Picosecond Time Scale.- Quantum Fluctuations in Picosecond Transient Stimulated Raman Scattering.- Transient Coherent Raman Spectroscopy: Two Novel Ways of Line Narrowing.- Picosecond Transient Raman Spectroscopy: The Excited State Structure of Diphenylpolyenes.- Time-Resolved Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Vibrational Overtones and Two-Phonon States.- Direct Picosecond Determination of the Character of Virbrational Line Broadening in Liquids.- Picosecond Time-Domain Coherent Active Raman Spectroscopy of Free Nitrogen Jet.- V Transient Laser Photochemistry.- Picosecond Chemistry of Collisionless Molecules in Supersonic Beams.- Energy Transfer in Picosecond Laser Generated Compressional Shock Waves.- The Role of A and A’ States in the Geminate Recombination of Molecular Iodine.- Molecular Dynamics of I2 Photodissociation in Cyclohexane: Experimental Picosecond Transient Electronic Absorption.- Iodine Photodissociation in Solution: New Transient Absorptions.- Photodissociation of Triarylmethanes.- Femtosecond Time Resolved Multiphoton Ionization: Techniques and Applications.- Threshold Ionization in Liquids.- Picosecond Multiphoton Laser Photolysis and Spectroscopy of Liquid Benzenes.- Chemical Reactions in Condensed Media.- Subpicosecond and Picosecond Time Resolved Laser Photoionization of Phenothiazine in Micellar Models.- Isomerization Intermediates in the Photochemistry of Stilbenes.- VI Molecular Energy Redistribution, Transfer, and Relaxation.- Picosecond Laser Studies on the Effect of Structure and Environment on Intersystem Crossing in Aromatic Carbenes.- Energy Flow from Highly Excited CH Overtones in Benzene and Alkanes.- Pump-Pump Picosecond Laser Techniques and the Energy Redistribution Dynamics in Mass Spectrometry.- Intramolecular Electronic and Vibrational Redistribution and Chemical Transformation in Isolated Large Molecules — S1 Benzene.- Ultrafast Intramolecular Redistribution and Energy Dissipation in Solutions. The Application of a Molecular Thermometer.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectra of Liquid Crystal: Cyanooctyloxybiphenyl.- Excited-State Solvation Dynamics in 4-Aminophthalimide.- The Pyrazine Mystery: A Resolution.- Picosecond Laser Studies of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-Quinone and Related Model Systems.- The Excited-State Proton Transfer Reactions of Flavonols in Alcoholic Solvents.- Excited-State Proton-Transfer Reactions in 1-Naphthol.- Structural and Solvent Effects on the Excited State Dynamics of 3-Hydroxyflavones.- Electron Transfer Reactions from the First Excited Singlet State of a Polymethine Cyanine Dye.- Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Polymethylene Linked Donor-Acceptor Compounds: A-(CH2)n-D.- Four Wave Mixing Studies and Molecular Dynamics Simulations.- Relaxation of Large Molecules Following Ultrafast Excitation.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Electronically Excited tris(2,2’-Bipyridine) Ruthenium (II) Dichloride.- VII Electronics and Opto-Electronics.- Modelocking at Ti:LiNbO3-InGaAsP/InP Composite Cavity Laser Using a High-Speed Directional Coupler Switch.- Picosecond Optical Measurements of Circuit Effects on Carrier Sweepout in GaAs Schottky Diodes.- Color Center Formation and Recombination in KBr and LiF by Picosecond Pulsed Electrons.- Subpicosecond Electro-Optic Sampling Using Coplanar Strip Transmission Lines.- ?erenkov Radiation from Femtosecond Optical Pulses in Electro-Optic Media.- Ultraviolet Photoemission Studies of Surfaces Using Picosecond Pulses of Coherent XUV Radiation.- Synchronous Mode-Locking of a GaAs/GaAlAs Laser Diode by a Picosecond Optoelectronic Switch.- Photochron Streak Camera with GaAs Photocathode.- Sequential Waveform Generation by Picosecond Optoelectronic Switching.- Picosecond Gain Measurements of a GaA1As Diode Laser.- Transient Response Measurements with Ion-Beam-Damaged Si-on-Sapphire, GaAs, and InP Photoconductors.- Picosecond Optoelectronic Studies of Microstrip Dispersion.- Measurement of the Soft X-Ray Temporal and Spectral Response of InP:Fe Photoconductors.- Dynamic Response of Millimeter Waves in a Semiconductor Waveguide to Picosecond Illumination.- VIII Photochemistry and Photophysics of Proteins, Chlorophyll, Visual Pigments, and Other Biological Systems.- Time Resolution of Tryptophans in Myoglobin.- Resolution of the Femtosecond Lifetime Species Involved in the Photodissociation Process of Hemeproteins and Protoheme.- Picosecond Vibrational Dynamics of Peptides and Proteins.- New Investigations of the Primary Processes of Bacteriorhodopsin and of Halorhodopsin.- Primary Events in Vision Probed by Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Polarized Emission Spectroscopy of Biliproteins (Influence of Temperature and Aggregation).- Dynamics of Energy Transfer in Chloroplasts and the Internal Dynamics of an Enzyme.- Picosecond Single Photon Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Nucleic Acids.- Excited-State Dynamics of NADH and 1-N-Propyl-1,4-Dihydronicotinamide.- Primary Process in the Photocycles of the Low pH Bacteriorhodopsin.- Picosecond Spectroscopy on the Primary Process in the Photoconversion of Protochlorophyllide to Chlorophyllide ?.- Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis: The Heterogeneous Bipartite Model.- Excitation Energy Transfer in Phycobilin-Chlorophyll. A System of Algal Intact Cells.- Analysis of Fluorescence Kinetics and Energy Transfer in Isolated a Subunits of Phycoerythrin from Nostoc Sp.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectra of Hematoporphyrin Derivative and Its Related Porphyrins.- Femtosecond Spectrosopy of Bacteriorhodopsin Excited State Dynamics.- Time-Resolved Picosecond Fluorescence Spectra of the Antenna Chlorophylls in the Green Alga Chlorella Vulgaris.- Index of Contributors.