Atomic and Molecular Processes with Short Intense Laser Pulses

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Coherence Phenomena.
• Laser Pulse Shaping for State-Selective Excitation.
• Quantitative Measurement of the Role of Phase Fluctuations in Nonlinear Optical Absorption Processes.
• Multiphoton Atomic and Molecular Coherent Excitations with Ultrashort Pulse Sequences.
• Temporal Coherence in One-Photon Excitation of a Molecular Quasicontinuum.
• Interferometry in the Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Gases.
• Effects of Excited State Absorption on Optical Pulse Propagation.
• Propagation of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in an N-Level Medium.
• High Spectral Brightness Dye Lasers.
• Light-Induced Collisional Energy Transfer Revisited.
• Theory of Laser-Pulse-Induced Molecular Dynamics: Gas-Phase Molecular Collisions and Adbond Dynamics.
• Rydberg States in Laser Fields.
• Wave Packets in Vibrational Motion of Sodium Dimer.
• Fast Fourier Transform Techniques in Numerical Simulations of Intense Pulse-Molecule Interactions.
• Interference in Two-Photon Absorption at High-Field Crossings.
• Time-Resolved Electronic Raman Scattering of the Nanosecond Time Scale.
• Density Measurements of Hg 2P0,1,2 Excited States in a Discharge Using Saturated Laser Absorption.
• High Intensity Multiphoton Processes.
• Above Threshold Ionization in Strong Fields and Classical Behavior of Electrons in Short Light Pulses.
• Above-Threshold Ionization and the Quantum Mechanics of Wiggling Electrons.
• Ultrashort Pulse Multiphoton Ionization of Xenon at moderate Pressures.
• Discussion of Limiting Deposition Power Densities in Laser Target Materials.
• Above Threshold Ionization in Xe with a CO2 Laser.
• Multiphoton Multielectron Excitation and Ionization of H2.
• Resonance Ionization Processes in Small Molecules.
• Third Harmonic Generation and Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy.
• Experimental Investigation of Multiphoton Free-FreeTransitions.
• Theory of Multiphoton Ionization.
• Electron Energy Spectrum after Multiphoton Ionization.
• All-Order Above Threshold Ionization and Related Problems.
• Numerical Simulations of Multiphoton Processes in Many Electron Atoms.
• Numerical ATI Wave Functions and their Implications.
• Ionization of One-Dimensional Hydrogen Atoms with Intense Microwave and Laser Pulses.
• Above Threshold Photodissociation with Intense IR Lasers — A Coupled Equations Study.
• Laser Energy Absorption due to Local Plasmon Excitation in Complex Atoms.
• Atomic Hydrogen in Intense, High-Frequency Laser Fields.
• A Contribution Towards the Theory of Multichannel Multi-photon Ionization of Atoms.
• H+2 in Intense Fields — A Coupled Equations Study.
• Intense-Field Radiative Processes in the Coulomb Continuum.
• Adiabatic Separability of Dressed Molecular Systems.
• The Interaction of Intense Picosecond Infrared Pulses with Isolated Molecules.
• Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation and the Dynamics of the High-Power Two-Photon Excitation of NO2.
• Coherent Excitation of Polyatomic Molecules by Ultrashort Laser Pulses — A Model Calculation.
• Picosecond Dynamics of Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution in Jet-Cooled Molecules.
• Subpicosecond UV/IR Absorption Spectroscopy.
• Vibrational Predissociation Dynamics of the Nitric Oxide Dimer.
• Multiphoton Absorption Fragmentation Mechanism of CH3I by Picosecond and Nanosecond Laser Mass Spectrometry.
• Laser Catalysis and Control of Chemical Reactions.
• Making Molecules Dance: Optimal Control of Molecular Motion.
• Quantum Dynamics of Short Pulse Vibrational Overtone Spectroscopy and Photochemistry.
• IR Laser Excitation in Molecules: Chaos and Diffusive Energy Growth.
• Rotational Coherences in the IR Excitation of Molecular Rotations at HighIntensities.
• Chaotic Dynamics, Polyatomic Molecules, Multiphoton Dissociation and All That.
• Theoretical Study on the Possibility of Local Mode (LM) Excitation in Polyatomics by Frequency-Modulated (FM) Pulse Lasers.
• Multiphoton Excitation of Bond Modes.
• Temporal and Steady State Transition Probabilities for Molecules Interacting with Oscillating and Static Electric Fields and Surfaces.
• Some Theoretical Aspects of Infrared Molecular Lasers Pumped by Electronic-to-Vibrational Energy Transfer.
• Some Intense Field Laser-Molecule Thoeretical Techniques.
• Author Index.