D. Richardson, V. V. Afanasjev, A. Grudinin, D. Payne
{"title":"Generation of pairs of solitons in an all-fibre, femtosecond soliton source","authors":"D. Richardson, V. V. Afanasjev, A. Grudinin, D. Payne","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_68","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126523334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Protein Dynamics","authors":"R. Hochstrasser","doi":"10.1364/up.1992.wa1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/up.1992.wa1","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrafast methods of interrogating the molecular vibrational spectrum in the infrared have advanced significantly in the past few years (1). Experiments in the regime 1200 cm–1 to 3500 cm–1 are now demonstrated and IR pulses as short as 280 fs have been used in experiments near 5 µ. Because infrared spectroscopy is universally applicable and structurally sharp, it is a particularly powerful tool with which to investigate complex systems such as proteins. In this paper some recent results in which transient IR spectroscopy was used to explore changes in the vibrational spectrum that result from optical triggering of protein structural changes will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122743934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Smirl, D. McCallum, A. N. Cartwright, X. R. Huang, T. Boggess, T. Hasenberg
{"title":"Ultrafast Recovery of Hetero n-i-p-i's by Enhanced In-plane Diffusive Transport","authors":"A. Smirl, D. McCallum, A. N. Cartwright, X. R. Huang, T. Boggess, T. Hasenberg","doi":"10.1364/up.1992.thc19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/up.1992.thc19","url":null,"abstract":"Hetero n-i-p-i's are one of several semiconductor quantum-well devices that use second-order electro-optic effects and that continue to attract interest for possible applications to low-power two-dimensional switching arrays and all-optical spatial light modulators. The turn-on time for a hetero n-i-p-i device is usually determined by transport perpendicular to the quantum wells. More specifically, it is determined by the time required for carriers generated in the quantum wells to escape the wells and to move to screen the built-in electric field, thus shifting the exciton. Consequently, typical turn-on times are of the order of a few ps. By contrast, when used in the conventional single-beam geometry, the recovery (or turn-off) time of hetero n-i-p-i's is determined by the slow recombination of the spatially-separated charges in the doped regions and is typically in the range of µs-ms. If instead, however, we use a two-beam mixing geometry for the device (where gratings are written in the material by the interference of the two beams), then the decay or turn off of the signal is determined by the decay of the gratings by in-plane transport over micron dimensions. Here, we use transient grating techniques to measure the recovery of such photorefractive and photoabsorptive gratings written in all-binary hetero n-i-p-i's. In this geometry, we show that the separation of photo-generated charge actually speeds the recovery by enhancing the effective in-plane ambipolar diffusion coefficient by roughly an order of magnitude (in contrast to the single beam geometry where charge separation elongates the recombination and recovery time).","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122822764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Zinth, C. Lauterwasser, U. Finkele, P. Hamm, S. Schmidt, W. Kaiser
{"title":"Molecular Processes in the Primary Reaction of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers","authors":"W. Zinth, C. Lauterwasser, U. Finkele, P. Hamm, S. Schmidt, W. Kaiser","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125308167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrafast Nonlinear Refraction in Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers","authors":"M. Sheik-Bahae, E. W. Stryland","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131824219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plasmon-Phonon Coupling and Hot Carrier Relaxation in GaAs and Low Temperature Grown GaAs","authors":"R. I. Devlen, J. Kuhl, K. Ploog","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128326800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Engers, H. Schüler, H. Schulz, D. von der Linde
{"title":"Ultrafast Dynamics of Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas","authors":"T. Engers, H. Schüler, H. Schulz, D. von der Linde","doi":"10.1364/up.1992.tue2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/up.1992.tue2","url":null,"abstract":"We study the formation and subsequent evolution of microplasmas during and after the interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses (peak intensities up to 1017 W/cm2) with solid materials. Pump-probe techniques are used to perform femtosecond time-resolved measurements of the optical reflectivity and of the second harmonic generation in the plasma. We have characterized the angular dependence, the polarization properties, and the frequency spectra of both the fundamental and the second harmonic (SH) of the reflected probe pulse.","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120982397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wave Packet Interferometry and Other Applications of Phase Locked Femtosecond Pulses","authors":"G. Fleming, N. Scherer, M. Cho, A. Matro, J. Cina","doi":"10.1364/up.1992.thd3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/up.1992.thd3","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to control the relative optical phase of ultrashort light pulses [1] as well as their duration and time delay [2] offers new capabilities for the study and manipulation of molecular responses. We have recently reported a new experimental method for setting and maintaining the relative optical phases within a sequence of ultrashort light pulses [1]. The initial studies involved fluorescence detected interfermotry measurements on iodine vapor. These measurements were shown to be extremely sensitive to the transition energies and potential energy surface of the excited state. The experimental interferograms have been analyzed in detail and the effect of rotational motion elucidated. By extending the technique to in-quadurate phase-locked pulses a relationship between the interferograms and the linear susceptibility to be obtained directly.","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116577347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Gupta, J. Whitaker, S. Williamson, P. Ho, J. Mazurowski, J. Ballingall
{"title":"High-Sensitivity Picosecond-Response InxGa1-xAs Photodetectors","authors":"S. Gupta, J. Whitaker, S. Williamson, P. Ho, J. Mazurowski, J. Ballingall","doi":"10.1364/up.1992.fc26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/up.1992.fc26","url":null,"abstract":"For ultrafast optoelectronic applications, photoconductors with sub-picosecond carrier lifetimes and low dark current are desired. Previous work has demonstrated the dramatic reduction in the carrier lifetime by lowering the growth temperature to ~200°C in molecular-beam-epitaxial (MBE) GaAs layers [1]. Optical transmission and reflection measurements, and photoconductive switching measurements have confirmed the sub-picosecond carrier lifetime in this material. In addition, the semi-insulating nature and high breakdown voltage of these layers has enabled the fabrication of submicron interdigitated photodetectors and optical correlators having an unprecedented bandwidth of 375 GHz and responsivity of ~ 0.1 A/W [2]. The excess-As incorporation during the low-temeprature MBE growth is believed to lead to the above properties [3], hence this approach of low-temperature growth should be applicable to other As-based materials. In particular, the ternary compound InxGa1-xAs is an important direct band-gap material for the long wavelength region, and with this in mind we investigate the ultrafast carrier dynamics and applications of low-temperature MBE grown InxGa1-xAs epilayers.","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134447503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Features of the Dual Fluorescence of 4-N,N-dialkylaminoalkylbenzoates in Alkanes","authors":"M.C.C. de Lange, D. Leeson, A. Huizer, C. Varma","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84910-7_205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":242710,"journal":{"name":"Eighth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133552012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}