Kaoru Yamanouchi • Steven Cundiff

Regina de Vivie-Riedle

Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

Louis DiMauro

Editors

Ultrafast Phenomena XIX

Proceedings of the 19th International

Conference, Okinawa Convention Center,

Okinawa, Japan, July 7-11, 2014

^1 Springer

Contents

Part I Attosecond and High-Order Harmonic Generation

and Applications

Attosecond Control of Electron Emission in Two-Color

Ionization of Atoms 3

G. Laurent, W. Cao, I. Ben-Itzhak and C.L. Cocke

Probing Xenon Electronic Structure by Two-Color Driven

High-Order Harmonic Generation 7

M. Negro, D. Facciala, B.D. Bruner, M. Devetta,

S. De Silvestri. N. Dudovich, S. Pabst, R. Santra, H. Soifer,

S. Stagira and C. Vozzi

Strong Field Applications of Gigawatt Self-compressedPulses from a Kagome Fiber 11

T. Balciunas, G. Fan, S. Haessler, C. Fourcade-Dutin, T. Witting,A.A. Voronin, A.M. Zheltikov. F. Gerome, G.G. Paulus, A. Baltuska

and F. Benabid

Intense Attosecond Pulses for Probing Ultrafast Molecular

Dynamics 16

E.J. Takahashi. P. Lan, T. Okino, Y. Furukawa, Y. Nabekawa,

K. Yamanouchi and K. Midorikawa

Disentangling Structural and Dynamical Effects via

Multidimensional High Harmonic Spectroscopy 20

B. D. Bruner, H. Soifer, M. Negro, M. Devetta, D. Facciala,

C. Vozzi, S. Stagira, S. de Silvestri and N. Dudovich

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Attosecond Frequency Resolved Momentum Imagingof Two-Photon Dissociative Ionization Dynamics of NitrogenMolecule 24

T. Okino, Y. Furukawa, A. Amani Eilanlou, Y. Nabekawa,

E.J. Takahashi, K. Yamanouchi and K. Midorikawa

High-Order Harmonics Fourier Transform Spectroscopyof Two-Photon Dissociative Ionization of Hydrogen Molecules 28

Yusuke Furukawa. T. Okino, Y. Nabekawa, A. Amani Eilanlou,

E.J. Takahashi, K. Yamanouchi and K. Midorikawa

Simultaneous Observation of Vibrational Wavepacketsof Nitrogen Molecule in Neutral and Singly-Charged Manifolds 32

T. Okino, Y. Furukawa, A. Amani Eilanlou, Y. Nabekawa,

E.J. Takahashi, K. Yamanouchi and K. Midorikawa

Photo Ionization Time Delay in Molecular Hydrogen 36

S. Heuser, M. Sabbar, R. Boge, M. Lucchini, L. Gallmann,

C. Cirelli and U. Keller

Ultrafast Relaxation and Photodissociation Dynamicsof 1,3-Butadiene Studied by Probing Molecular Orbitals 40

A. Makida, T. Fujiwara, Yu Harabuchi, T. Taketsugu and T. Sekikawa

Ultrafast and Photodissociation Dynamics of 1,2-ButadieneStudied by Photoelectron Spectroscopy 44

Ryo likubo, Takehisa Fujiwara, Taro Sekikawa, Yu Harabuchi

and Tetsuya Taketsugu

Direct Comparison of Multi-photon and EUV Single-Photon

Probing of Molecular Relaxation Processes 48

T.J.A. Wolf, M. Koch, E. Sistrunk, J. Grilj and M. Giihr

Sub-4-fs Charge Migration in Phenylalanine 52

F. Calegari, D. Ayuso, L. Belshaw. A. Trabattoni, S. Anumula,

S. De Camillis, F. Frassetto, L. Poletto, A. Palacios,

P. Decleva, J. Greenwood, F. Martin and M. Nisoli

Recombination-Induced Autoionization Process in Rare-Gas

Clusters 56

B. Schiitte, M. Arbeiter, T. Fennel, F. Campi, MJ.J. Vrakkingand A. Rouzee

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X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism Probed Using HighHarmonics 60

Patrik Grychtol, Ofer Kfir, Ronny Knut, Emrah Turgut, Dmitriy Zusin,

Dimitar Popmintchev, Tenio Popmintchev, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw,

Avner Fleischer, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane and Oren Cohen

Extreme Ultraviolet Transient Grating Measurement

of Insulator-Metal Transition Dynamics in V02 64

Emily Sistrunk, Jakob Grilj, Jaewoo Jeong, Mahesh G. Samant,

Alexander X. Gray, Hermann A. Diirr, Stuart S.P. Parkin

and Markus Giihr

Delayed Core-Level Photoemission from the van der Waals

Crystal WSe2 68

F. Merschjohann, S. Neb, P. Bartz, M. Hensen, C. Striiber,

S. Fiechter, N. Miiller, W. Pfeiffer and U. Heinzmann

Optimization of Quantum Trajectories Driven by Strong-FieldWaveforms 72

S. Haessler, T. Balciunas, G. Fan, T. Witting, R. Squibb,L. Chipperfield, A. Zai'r, G. Andriukaitis, A. Pugzlys,J.W.G. Tisch. J.P. Marangos and A. Baltuska

Phase-Matched Generation of High Order Harmonic

for Study of Molecular Dynamics 78

L.V. Dao, K.B. Dinh and P. Hannaford

Multiphoton Transitions for Robust Delay-Zero Calibration

in Attosecond Transient Absorption 83

J. Herrmann, M. Lucchini, S. Chen, M. Wu, A. Ludwig,L. Kasmi, K.J. Schafer, L. Gallmann, M.B. Gaarde and U. Keller

Infrared Double Optical Gating for Generating Submicrojoule

Isolated Attosecond Pulses 87

Eiji J. Takahashi, Pengfei Lan and Katsumi Midorikawa

Generation of Isolated Soft X-Ray Pulses Around the Carbon

K-Edge Using CEP-Stabilized Few-Cycle IR Pulses 91

Nobuhisa Ishii, Keisuke Kaneshima, Kenta Kitano, Teruto Kanai,

Shuntaro Watanabe and Jiro Itatani

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Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-Ray Pulses 95

M.-C. Chen, C. Mancuso, C. Hernandez-Garcia, F. Dollar,

B. Galloway, D. Popmintchev, B. Langdon, A. Auger,P.-C. Huang, B.C. Walker, L. Plaja, A. Jaron-Becker,

A. Becker, M.M. Murnane, H.C. Kapteyn and T. Popmintchev

Strong-Field-Enhanced Forward Scattering of High-OrderHarmonics 99

Carles Serrat

Part II Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences—Gas Phase

Non-adiabatic Effects in Electron Momenta 105

C. Hofmann, A.S. Landsman, A. Zielinski, C. Cirelli.

A. Scrinzi and U. Keller

Determination of Absolute Cross-Sections of Nonresonant

EUV-UV Two-Color Two-Photon Ionization of He 109

M. Fushitani, Y. Hikosaka. A. Matsuda, T. Endo, E. Shigemasa.M. Nagasono, T. Sato, T. Togashi, M. Yabashi, T. Ishikawa

and A. Hishikawa

Attosecond Spatial Control of Electron Wave Packet Emission

Dynamics 113

Li Zhang, Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Yueming Zhou,

YanLan Wang, ChuanLiang Wang, Daniil Kartashov,

Markus Schoffler, Paul Corkum, Dror Shafir. Andrius Baltuska.

Igor Ivanov, Anatoli Kheifets. Peixiang Lu, XiaoJun Liu.

Andre Staudte and Markus Kitzler

Probing Elastic Rescattering Through Half-Cycle Cutoffs

in Above-Threshold Ionization Spectra 118

Henning Geiseler, Nobuhisa Ishii, Keisuke Kaneshima.

Teruto Kanai and Jiro Itatani

Experimental Signature of Light Induced Conical Intersections

in Diatomics 122

Adi Natan, Matthew R. Ware and Philip H. Bucksbaum

Sub-femtosecond Steering of Carbon Hydrogen Bonds 126

R. Siemering, M. Kiibel, B. Bergues. A.S. Alnaser.

M. Kling and R. de Vivie-Riedle

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Tabletop Imaging of Structural Evolutions in Chemical Reactions.... 130

Heide Ibrahim, Benji Wales, Samuel Beaulieu, Bruno E. Schmidt,

Nicolas Thire, Emmanuel P. Fowe, Eric Bisson, Christoph T. Hebeisen,

Vincent Wanie, Mathieu Giguere, Jean-Claude Kieffer, Michael Spanner,Andre D. Bandrauk, Joseph Sanderson, Michael S. Schuurman

and Francois Legare

Structure Dependence of Kinetic Energy Released

in X-ray-Induced Fragmentation 134

Philip H. Bucksbaum, Chelsea E. Liekhus-Schmaltz,

Ian Tenney and Vladimir S. Petrovic

Controlling Fragmentation Reactions of Polyatomic Molecules

with Impulsive Laser Alignment 138

Xinhua Xie, Katharina Doblhoff-Dier, Huailiang Xu, Stefan Roither,

Markus Schoffler, Daniil Kartashov, Sonia Erattupuzha, Tim Rathje,Gerhard G. Paulus, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Andrius Baltuska,

Stefanie Grafe and Markus Kitzler

Intense Field Ionization of C2H2 and 12C13CH2 Alignedin Field-Free Space 143

Hirokazu Hasegawa. Yuki Ikeda, Kotaro Sonoda, Takahiro Sato,

Atsushi Iwasaki and Kaoru Yamanouchi

Ionization of Aligned 02 by Intense Laser Pulse 147

Kotaro Sonoda, Hirokazu Hasegawa, Takahiro Sato,

Atsushi Iwasaki and Kaoru Yamanouchi

Strong-Field Electronic Control of Multiple-Bond Breaking

Dynamics in Ethylene 150

Xinhua Xie, Erik Lotstedt. Stefan Roither. Markus Schoffler,

Daniil Kartashov, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Katsumi Midorikawa,

Andrius Baltuska and Markus Kitzler

Electronic Pre-determination of Ethylene Fragmentation Dynamics ... 155

Markus Kitzler. Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither. Erik Lotstedt,

Markus Schoffler, Daniil Kartashov, Gerhard G. Paulus,

Atsushi Iwasaki, Andrius Baltuska and Kaoru Yamanouchi

Long-Lived Neutral H2 in Hydrogen Migration Within

Hydrocarbon Dication

Katsunori Nakai and Kaoru Yamanouchi

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Pump-Probe Photoelectron Imaging with 90-nm Excitation Pulses....

164

Shunsuke Adachi, Motoki Sato, Yoshi-ichi Suzuki

and Toshinori Suzuki

Time-Resolved Coulomb Explosion Imaging of Ultrafast

Fragmentation of CS2 in Highly Charged States 168

Akitaka Matsuda, Eiji J. Takahashi and Akiyoshi Hishikawa

Initial Phase Shifts in the Quantum Beat Resultingfrom the Ultrafast Internal Conversion of Pyrazine 172

Yoshi-ichi Suzuki and Toshinori Suzuki

Ab Initio Quantum Dynamical Study on Ultrafast

Nonradiative Transition Pathways of Pyrazine 176

Manabu Kanno, Yuta Ito, Noriyuki Shimakura, Shiro Koseki,

Hirohiko Kono and Yuichi Fujimura

The Ultrafast Wolff Rearrangement in the Gas Phase 180

Andreas Steinbacher, Sebastian Roeding, Tobias Brixner

and Patrick Nuernberger

Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Ab Initio

Multiple Spawning Studies of Hexamethylcyclopentadiene 184

T.J.A. Wolf, T.S. Kuhlman, O. Schalk. T.J. Martinez.

K.B. Meller, A. Stolow and A.-N. Unterreiner

Laser-Assisted Electron Diffraction for Probing Femtosecond

Nuclear Dynamics of Gas-Phase Molecules 188

Yuya Morimoto, Reika Kanya and Kaoru Yamanouchi

Filament-Driven Lasing Action for Combustion Diagnosis 192

Huailiang Xu, Wei Chu, Helong Li, Jielei Ni, Bin Zeng.Jinping Yao, Haisu Zhang, Guihua Li, Chengrui Jing,

Hongqiang Xie, Kaoru Yamanouchi and Ya Cheng

Part III Solid State Physics and Chemistry

Anomalous Phase Change in [(GeTe)2/(Sb2Te3)]2o SuperlatticeObserved by Coherent Phonon Spectroscopy 199

K. Makino, Y. Saito, K. Mitrofanov, J. Tominaga, A.V. Kolobov,

T. Nakano, P. Fons and M. Hase

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Dynamical Coupling of Rabi Oscillation to Coherent Phonon

in Semiconductor Microcavities 202

K. Mizoguchi, S. Yoshino and G. Oohata

Coherent Control Over Two-Dimensional Lattice Vibrational

Trajectories in a-Quartz Using Polarization Pulse Shaping 206

Masaaki Sato, Takuya Higuchi, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

and Kazuhiko Misawa

Ultrafast Lattice Dynamics of Phase-Change Materials Monitored

by a Pump-Pump-Probe Technique 210

Muneaki Hase, Paul Fons, Kirill Mitrofanov, Alexander V. Kolobov

and Junji Tominaga

Enhancement of Superconducting Coherence in YBa2Cu3Oj

by Resonant Lattice Excitation 214

Daniele Nicoletti, W. Hu, S. Kaiser, C.R. Hunt, I. Gierz,

M. Le Tacon, T. Loew, B. Keimer and A. Cavalleri

Coherent Phonon Dynamics in Singlet Fission of Rubrene

Single Crystal 218

Kiyoshi Miyata, Shunsuke Tanaka, Toshiki Sugimoto,

Kazuya Watanabe, Takafumi Uemura, Jun Takeya

and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto

Acceleration of Ultrafast Singlet Fission in Aza-Derivative

of TIPS-Pentacene 222

T. Buckup, J. Herz and M. Motzkus

Vibrational Coherence Reveals the Role of Dark Multiexciton

States in Ultrafast Singlet Exciton Fission 226

Artem A. Bakulin, Sarah E. Morgan, Jan Alster, Dassia Egorova,Alex Chin, Donatas Zigmantas and Akshay Rao

Ultrafast Carriers Dynamics in Silicon: A Joint Experimentaland Theoretical Study 230

S. Dal Conte, D. Sangalli, A. Marini, G. Cerullo and C. Manzoni

Ultrabroadband Infrared Pump-Probe Spectroscopy UsingChirped-Pulse Upconversion 233

Hideto Shirai. Tien-Tien Yeh, Yutaka Nomura, Chih-Wei Luo

and Takao Fuji

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Investigation of Laser-Induced Currents in Large-Band-GapDielectrics 237

Sabine Keiber, Tim Paasch-Colberg, Alexander Schwarz,

Olga Razskazovskaya, Elena Fedulova, Ozge Saglam,Clemens Jakubeit, Shawn Sederberg, Peter Dombi,

Nicholas Karpowicz and Ferenc Krausz

Field-Induced Dynamics of Correlated Electrons in LiH

and NaBH4 241

Vincent Juve, Marcel Holtz, Flavio Zamponi, Michael Woerner,

Thomas Elsaesser and Andreas Borgschulte

Spontaneous Formation of Correlated Charge Coherence

Induced by 1.5-Cycle Pulse in 1-D Organic Metal (TMTTF)2AsF6 ....244

T. Ishikawa, Y. Sagae. Y. Naito, J. Ichimura. Y. Kawakami,

H. Itoh, K. Yamamoto. K. Yakushi. S. Ishihara, T. Sasaki,

K. Yonemitsu and S. Iwai

Coherent Dynamics of Structural Symmetry Duringthe Ultrafast Melting of a Charge Density Wave 248

T. Huber, S.O. Manager, A. Ferrer. H. Schaefer, J.A. Johnson,

S. Gruebel, A. Luebcke, A. Caviezel, L. Huber, T. Kubacka,

C. Domes, C. Laulhe, S. Ravy, G. Ingold, P. Beaud, J. Demsar

and S.L. Johnson

10 fs Dynamics of Photoinduced Magnetic Transition

in Double-Layered Charge Ordering in LuFe20.4Under Interlayer Excitation 252

Y. Sagae, K. Yamada. T. Ishikawa. K. Itoh, H. Itoh. T. Sasaki.

T. Nagata, J. Kano, T. Kambe, S. Ishihara, N. Ikeda and S. Iwai

Magnetically Induced Lattice Dynamics in a Magnetoelectric

Antiferromagnet Cr203 257

T. Nishimoto, T. Moriyasu and T. Kohmoto

Coherent Magnetism: Pushing the Limits of Spin-PhotonInteraction 260

M. Barthelemy, M. Sanches Piaia, M. Vomir. H. Vonesh and J.-Y. Bigot

Quantum Droplets of Electrons and Holes in GaAs Quantum Wells.. .

264

S.T. Cundiff, A.E. Almand-Hunter, H. Li. M. Mootz. M. Kira

and S.W. Koch

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Exciton Dynamics in Cu-Doped InAs Colloidal Quantum Dots 267

Chunfan Yang, Itay Gdor, Yorai Amit, Adam Faust, Uri Ban in

and Sanford Ruhman

Rabi Oscillations in an InAs Quantum Dot Ensemble Observed

in Pre-pulse 2D Coherent Spectroscopy 271

T. Suzuki, R. Singh, I.A. Akimov, M. Bayer, D. Reuter, A.D. Wieck

and S.T. Cundiff

Slow Electron Cooling Dynamics of Highly Luminescent CdSxSe].xAlloy Quantum Dot 275

Partha Maity, Tushar Debnath and Hirendra Nath Ghosh

Ultrafast Dynamics Related to Spin Crossover Processes in SingleCrystal [Fe"(bpy)3](PF6)2 279

R.L. Field, L. Liu, C. Lu, Y. Jiang, W. Gawelda and R.J.D. Miller

Femtosecond Electron Diffraction Study of the Spin Crossover

Dynamics of Single Crystal [Fe(PM-AzA)2](NCS)2 283

Yifeng Jiang, Lai Chung Liu. Henrike M. Miiller-Werkmeister,

Meng Gao, Cheng Lu, Dongfang Zhang, Eric Collet

and R.J. Dwayne Miller

Ab Initio Solution of Structural Dynamics with Ultrafast

Electron Diffraction and Charge Flipping 287

Lai Chung Liu. Yifeng Jiang, Cheng Lu. Meng Gao,

Manabu Ishikawa, Hideki Yamochi and R.J. Dwayne Miller

Laser Streaking of Free-Electron Pulses at 25 keV 291

A. Gliserin, F.O. Kirchner. M. Walbran, F. Krausz and P. Baum

Ultrafast Single-Electron Diffraction 295

A. Gliserin. S. Lahme, M. Walbran, F. Krausz and P. Baum

Part IV Interfacial, Surface, Thin Films and Carbon Nanotubes

Hydrated Phospholipid Surfaces Probed by Ultrafast

2D Spectroscopy of Phosphate Vibrations 301

Rene Costard, Ismael A. Heisler and Thomas Elsaesser

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Femtosecond Time and Angle Resolved Photoemission

Spectroscopy of Liquids 305

Yo-Ichi Yamamoto, Yoshi-Ichi Suzuki, Gaia Tomasello,

Takuya Horio, Shutaro Karashima, Roland Mitric

and Toshinori Suzuki

Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Water at a Zwitterionic

Lipid/Water Interface Revealed by Two-Dimensional

Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation

(2D HD-VSFG) 309

Ken-ichi Inoue, Prashant Chandra Singh, Satoshi Nihonyanagi,Shoichi Yamaguchi and Tahei Tahara

Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy at Liquid Interfaces

by Heterodyne-Detected Sum-Frequency Generation 313

Tahei Tahara

Ultrafast Electron Solvation at the Room TemperatureIonic Liquid/Metal Interface 317

Alex J. Shearer, Benjamin W. Caplins, David E. Suich

and Charles B. Harris

Ultrafast Spectroscopy Reveals Bulk Heterojunction Morphology ....321

Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, Almis Serbenta

and Paul H.M. van Loosdrecht

Toward Ultrafast In Situ X-ray Studies of Interfacial

Photoelectrochemistry 325

S. Neppl, Y.-S. Liu, C.-H. Wu, A. Shavorskiy, I. Zegkinoglou,

T. Troy, D.S. Slaughter, M. Ahmed, A.S. Tremsin, J.-H. Guo,

P.-A. Glans, M. Salmeron, H. Bluhm and O. Gessner

Ultrafast Dynamics in Epitaxial Silicene on Ag(lll) 329

E. Cinquanta, S.D. Conte, D. Chiappe, C. Grazianetti, M. Fanciulli,

A. Molle, G. Cerullo, S. Stagira, F. Scotognella and C. Vozzi

Accessing Energy-Dependent Photoemission Delays in Solids 333

Matteo Lucchini, Luca Castiglioni, Reto Locher, Michael Greif,

Lukas Gallmann, Jiirg Osterwalder, Matthias Hengsbergerand Ursula Keller

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Visualization of Ultrafast Electron Dynamics Using Time-Resolved

Photoemission Electron Microscopy 337

K. Fukumoto, Y. Yamada, T. Matsuki, K. Onda, T. Noguchi,

R. Mizokuchi, S. Oda and S. Koshihara

A New Regime of Nanoscale Thermal Transport: Collective

Diffusion Counteracts Dissipation Inefficiency 341

Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot, Jorge N. Hernandez-Charpak,

Erik Anderson, Xiaokun Gu, Ronggui Yang, Henry Kapteyn,

Margaret Murnane and Damiano Nardi

Laser-Induced Plasma Dynamics Imaged by Femtosecond

In-Line Holography 345

N. Rothe, C. Merschjann, C. Schuster, T. Fennel and S. Lochbrunner

Resonant Optical Kerr Response with Ultrashort DecayTime by Nonlocal Wave Coupling of Light and Excitons 348

Masayoshi Ichimiya, Takayuki Umakoshi, Hiroyuki Murata,

Takashi Kinoshita, Hajime Ishihara and Masaaki Ashida

Single-Shot Real-Time Observation of Ultrafast Amorphization

in Ge2Sb2Te5 Thin Film 352

W. Oba, I. Katayama, Y. Minami, T. Saiki and J. Takeda

Electrochemical Control of Coherent Phonon Generations

in Single-Walled Metallic Carbon Nanotubes 356

Keisuke Maekawa, Kenji Sato, Yasuo Minami, Ikufumi Katayama,Jun Takeda, Kazuhiro Yanagi and Masahiro Kitajima

Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration and Dynamicsin Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes 360

Giancarlo Soavi, Francesco Scotognella, Daniele Viola,

Timo Hefner, Tobias Hertel, Guglielmo Lanzani and Giulio Cerullo

Thickness Dependent Hot-phonon Effects Observed

by Femtosecond Mid-infrared Luminescence in Graphene 363

Tohru Suemoto, Tomohiro Kawasaki, Hiroshi Watanabe,

Takushi Iimori and Fumio Komori

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Part V Chemistry—Liquid Phase

Discriminating Racemic from Achiral Solutions with Femtosecond

Accumulative Spectroscopy 369

Andreas Steinbacher, Patrick Nuernberger and Tobias Brixner

Quantum Dynamics of Molecular Reactions Directed by ExplicitSolvent Environment 373

Sebastian Thallmair, Julius Zauleck and Regina de Vivie-Riedle

Excited-State Dynamics of Catalytically Active Transition

Metal Complexes Studied by Transient Photofragmentationin Gas Phase and Transient Absorption in Solution 378

D. Imanbaew. Y. Nosenko, K. Chevalier, F. Rupp, C. Kerner,

F. Breher. W.R. Thiel, R. Diller and C. Riehn

Coherent Control of the Photodissociation of Triiodide

in Solution Reveals New Pathways 382

Rui Xian. Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Ryan L. Field

and R.J. Dwayne Miller

Multidimensional Photochemistry Model: Application

to Aminobenzonitrile and Benzopyran 386

Aurelie Perveaux, Pedro J. Castro. Mar Reguero, Hans-Dieter Meyer.Fabien Gatti. Benjamin Lasorne and David Lauvergnat

Tuning of Isomerization Rates in Indigo-Based Photoswitches 391

E. Samoylova, B. Maerz, S. Wiedbrauk. S. Oesterling, A. Nenov.

H. Dube. R. de Vivie-Riedle and W. Zinth

Bimolecular Reactions on a Timescale Below 1 ps 395

Roland Wilcken and Eberhard Riedle

Ultrafast Dynamics of a Bistable Intramolecular Proton

Transfer Switch 399

Julia Bahrenburg, Michat F. Rode. Andrzej L. Sobolewski

and Friedrich Temps

Excited State Structural Dynamics Probed with Time-Resolved

Sulfur K-Edge X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy 403

Matthew Ross. Benjamin E. Van Kuiken, Mathew L. Strader.

Amy Cordones-Hahn, Hana Cho, Robert W. Schoenlein.

Tae Kyu Kim and Munira Khalil

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Solvent Environment Revealed by Positively Chirped Pulses 407

Arkaprabha Konar, Vadim V. Lozovoy and Marcos Dantus

Coherent Wavepacket Motion in Ultrafast Intermolecular

Electron Transfer in Electron-Donating Solvent 411

Yusuke Yoneda, Shohei Nambu, Eisuke Takeuchi,

Yutaka Nagasawa and Hiroshi Miyasaka

Elementary Electron and Ion Dynamics in Ionized Liquid Water.... 415

Jialin Li, Zhaogang Nie, Yi Ying Zheng, Shuo Dongand Zhi-Heng Loh

Signatures of Conical Intersection Mediated Relaxation

Dynamics in Time-Resolved Broadband Raman Detection 419

Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Konstantin E. Dorfman and Shaul Mukamel

VIPER 2D-IR: Novel Pulse Sequence to Track Exchange

Beyond the Vibrational Lifetime 424

Luuk J.G.W. van Wilderen, Andreas T. Messmer

and Jens Bredenbeck

Sagnac Interferometer for Two-Dimensional Spectroscopyin the Pump-Probe Geometry 428

Samuel D. Park, Trevor L. Courtney. Dmitry Baranov,

Byungmoon Cho and David M. Jonas

Broadband Electronic Two-Dimensional Spectroscopyin the Deep UV 432

Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Alessandra Picchiotti, Samansa Maneshi

and R.J. Dwayne Miller

A Non time Ordered Pulse Scanning Protocol

for Multidimensional Spectroscopy with Entangled Light 436

Konstantin E. Dorfman, Frank Schlawin and Shaul Mukamel

Ultrafast Interaction of Dark and Bright Electronic States

in Open-Chain Carotenoids Investigated by Pump-DFWM 440

T. Miki, Tiago Buckup, M. Marek. R.J. Cogdell and Marcus Motzkus

Following the Excited State Dynamics of P-Apo-8'-Carotenalwith Two-Dimensional Electronic-Vibrational Spectroscopy 444

Thomas A.A. Oliver, Nicholas H.C. Lewis and Graham R. Fleming

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Survival of Nuclear Coherences for a Series of Internal

Conversions in Free Base Tetraphenylporphyrin 448

S.Y. Kim, S. Kim and T. Joo

Distinctive Spectral Features of Exciton and Excimer States

in the Ultrafast Electronic Deactivation of the Adenine

Dinucleotide 452

Mayra C. Stuhldreier, Katharina Rottger and Friedrich Temps

Influence of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bondingon the Photodynamics of 2-(l-Ethynylpyrene)-Adenosine (PyA) 455

P. Trojanowski, C. Griinewald, F.F. Graupner, M. Braun,

A.J. Reuss, J.W. Engels and J. Wachtveitl

S2 to Si Relaxation Dynamics in Perylene Bisimide Dye

Aggregates and Monomers 459

Steffen Wolter, Franziska Fennel, Marco Schroter. Jan Schulze,

Frank Wiirthner, Oliver Kiihn and Stefan Lochbrunner

2D IR Spectroscopy with Phase-Locked Pulse Pairs

from a Birefringent Delay Line 462

J. Renault, M. Maiuri, D. Brida, C. Manzoni, Jan Helbingand G. Cerullo

Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in Alcohols Studied by 2D IR

Spectroscopy 466

Keisuke Shinokita, Ana V. Cunha, Thomas L.C. Jansen

and Maxim S. Pshenichnikov

Hydrogen Bond Enhancement of Fermi Resonances Exploredwith Ultrafast IR Two-Colour Pump-Probe and 2D-IR

Spectroscopy 471

Christian Greve, Rene Costard, Henk Fidder and Erik T.J. Nibbering

Observation of the Dark State in Ruthenium ComplexesUsing Femtosecond Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy 475

Ken Onda, Tatsuhiko Mukuta, Sei'ichi Tanaka, Kei Murata

and Akiko Inagaki

Vibrational Dynamics of Nitrosyl Stretch of Ru Complexin Aqueous Solution Studied by Two-Dimensional Infrared

Spectroscopy 479

Kaoru Ohta, Kyoko Aikawa and Keisuke Tominaga

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Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy of O-H Stretching Modes

in 2-Naphthol-Acetonitrile Photoacid-Base Complexes 483

Brian T. Psciuk, Mirabelle Premont-Schwartz, Benjamin Koeppe,Sharon Keinan, Dequan Xiao, Victor S. Batista and Erik T.J. Nibbering

Vibrational Dynamics of the CN Stretching in the ElectronicallyExcited State by UV and Visible-Pump and Infrared-Probe

Spectroscopy 487

Sho Hiraoka, Kaoru Ohta and Keisuke Tominaga

Structural Motifs of Liquid Acetic Acid from Ultrafast

CARS Spectroscopy 492

Matthias Liitgens, Frank Friedriszik and Stefan Lochbrunner

Ultrafast Time-Domain Raman Study to Visualize

Large-Amplitude Distortions in Copper Complexes 495

Satoshi Takeuchi, Munetaka Iwamura and Tahei Tahara

Investigation of Vibrational Dynamics by Femtosecond

Time-Resolved CARS 499

Yuanqin Xia, Yang Zhao, Sheng Zhang, Ping He, Zhiwei Dong,

Deying Chen and Zhonghua Zhang

Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Infrared-Visible

and Infrared-Raman Spectroscopies 503

Trevor L. Courtney, Zachary W. Fox, Karla M. Slenkamp,Michael S. Lynch and Munira Khalil

Part VI Biological Systems

Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in S02 and Nucleobases 509

Sebastian Mai, Martin Richter, Philipp Marquetandand Leticia Gonzalez's

Detection of the G(-H)" Radical in the Electronic Deactivation

of the G-C Watson-Crick Base Pair 514

Katharina Rottger and Friedrich Temps

Ultrafast Photoisomerization of Chiral Biomimetic Molecular

Switches 517

M. Gueye, S. Haacke, S. Fusi, M. Olivucci, E. Gindenspergerand J. Leonard

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Snapshots of Sub-picosecond Dynamics in Heme-proteins

Captured by Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Scattering 521

C. Ferrante, E. Pontecorvo, G. Batignani and T. Scopigno

Vibrational Dynamics in Photoactive Yellow Protein Revealed

by Mid-IR Pump/Visible Probe Spectroscopy 524

Ryosuke Nakamura and Norio Hamada

Probing Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Photoactive Yellow

Protein with Femtosecond Time-Domain Raman Spectroscopy 528

Hikaru Kuramochi, Satoshi Takeuchi, Kento Yonezawa,

Hironari Kamikubo. Mikio Kataoka and Tahei Tahara

Vibrational Energy Flow in Hemeproteins 532

Yasuhisa Mizutani, Naoki Fujii, Mitsuhiro Miyamoto,Misao Mizuno and Haruto Ishikawa

Towards Direct Measurement of Ultrafast Vibrational

Energy Flow in Proteins 535

Henrike M. Muller-Werkmeister, Martin Essig, Patrick Durkin,

Nediljko Budisa and Jens Bredenbeck

Time-Resolved Impulsive Raman Study of Excited State

Structures of Green Fluorescent Protein 539

Tomotsumi Fujisawa, Hikaru Kuramochi, Satoshi Takeuchi

and Tahei Tahara

Nonlinear Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy UsingUltrabroadband Femtosecond Pulses for the Measurement

of Photobleaching of Fluorescent Proteins 543

Akira Suda. Hiroshi Takahashi and Keisuke Toda

Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopic Study on Photoexcitation

Dynamics of DNO-Bound Myoglobin 547

Taegon Lee, Seongchul Park and Manho Lim

Part VII Charge and Energy Transfer—Photovoltaic and Light

Harvesting

Interpreting Oscillations in Numerically Exact Simulations

of 2D Electronic Spectra 553

Daniele M. Monahan. Lukas V. Whaley-Mayda, Akihito Ishizaki

and Graham R. Fleming

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Coherent Ultrafast Charge Transfer in an Organic Photovoltaic

Blend 557

Antonietta De Sio, Sarah M. Falke, Carlo A. Rozzi, Daniele Brida,

Margherita Maiuri, Michele Amato, Ephraim Sommer, Angel Rubio,

Giulio Cerullo, Elisa Molinari and Christoph Lienau

Ultrafast Energy and Charge Transfer Processes in a Flexible

Molecular Triad Designed for Organic Photovoltaics 561

T. Roland, L. Liu, E. Heyer, A. Ruff, S. Ludwigs, R. Ziessel

and S. Haacke

Ultrafast Electron and Hole Dynamics in Novel Conjugated

Star-Shaped Molecules 564

Oleg V. Kozlov, Yuriy N. Luponosov, Sergei A. Ponomarenko,

Dmitry Yu. Paraschuk, Yoann Olivier, Jerome Cornil,

Nina Kausch-Busies and Maxim S. Pshenichnikov

Photoinduced Charge Transfer Occurs Naturally in DNA 568

D.B. Bucher, B.M. Pilles, T. Carell and W. Zinth

A Regulation of Energy Flow in Purple Bacterial

Photosynthetic Antennas 572

D. Kosumi, S. Maruta, R. Fujii, M. Sugisaki, S. Takaichi,R.J. Cogdell and H. Hashimoto

Elucidation and Control of Ultrafast Intramolecular ChargeTransfer Dynamics of Marine Photosynthetic Pigments 576

D. Kosumi. T. Kajikawa, K. Yano, S. Okumura. M. Sugisaki,K. Sakaguchi, S. Katsumura and H. Hashimoto

The Primary Photosynthetic Energy Conversion in Bacterial

Reaction Centers—Stepwise Electron Transfer and the Effect

of Elevated Exposure Levels 580

Pablo Nahuel Dominguez. Matthias Himmelstoss, Jeff Michelmann.

Florian Lehner, Alastair Gardiner, Richard Cogdell and Wolfgang Zinth

Resonant Stimulated X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy of Molecule

Following Core Ionization 584

Yu Zhang, Jason D. Biggs, Weijie Hua and Shaul Mukamel

Light Harvesting Dynamics in Gloeobacter Rhodopsin (GR) 587

E. Siva Subramaniam Iyer. Itay Gdor. Tamar Eliash,

Mordechai Sheves and Sanford Ruhman

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Disentangling Electronic and Vibrational Coherence

in the Phycocyanin-645 Light-Harvesting Complex 591

Jeffrey A. Davis, Gethin H. Richards, Krystyna E. Wilk

and Paul M.G. Curmi

Ultrafast Energy Flow and Equilibration Dynamicsin Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complexes 595

Margherita Maiuri, Larry Liier, Sarah Henry, Anne-Marie Carey,Richard J. Cogdell, Giulio Cerullo and Dario Polli

Primary Process in Light-Harvesting Complex Studied

by Pump-Repump-Probe Spectroscopy 599

K. Sobue, K. Abe, S. Sakai, M. Nango, H. Hashimoto

and M. Yoshizawa

Ultrabroadband Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy by a Birefringent

Delay Line 603

J. Renault, A. Oriana, M. Maiuri, D. Brida, D. Polli, C. Manzoni

and G. Cerullo

Part VIII THz Generation and Application

Filling the Entire Terahertz Frequency Gap by Single-CycleMV/Cm Pulses 609

C. Vicario, B. Monoszlai, F. Ardana-Lamas and CP. Hauri

Terahertz Imaging with Optical Resolution by Femtosecond

Laser Filament in Air 612

Jiayu Zhao, Lanjun Guo and Weiwei Liu

Ultrafast Optical Modulation of Efficiently-GeneratedTerahertz-Wave in Charge Ordered Organic Ferroelectrics 616

Hirotake Itoh, Keisuke Itoh, Kazuki Goto, Junichi Ichimura.

Yota Naito, Kaoru Yamamoto, Kyuya Yakushi, Hideo Kishida

and Shinichiro Iwai

Ultrafast Terahertz Response of Lithium Niobate

in the Nonperturbative Regime 620

Carmine Somma, Klaus Reimann, Christos Flytzanis,Michael Woerner and Thomas Elsaesser

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Inherent Resistivity of Graphene to Strong THz Fields 623

Dmitry Turchinovich, Zoltan Mies, S0ren Jensen, Khaled Parvez,

Ivan Ivanov, Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, Frank H.L. Koppens, Xinliang Feng,Klaus Mullen and Mischa Bonn

Nonlinear Carrier Responses in Gold Thin Films Induced

by Intense Terahertz Waves 626

Yasuo Minami, Thang Duy Dao, Tadaaki Nagao, Jun Takeda,

Masahiro Kitajima and Ikufumi Katayama

THz-Controlled Photoelectron Emission from Nanotips 630

L. Wimmer, G. Herink, K.E. Echternkamp, S.V. Yalunin,

D.R. Solli, M. Guide and C. Ropers

Nonlinear Carrier Dynamics in Semi-metal Bismuth Induced

by Intense Terahertz Field 633

Kotaro Araki, Yasuo Minami, Thang Duy Dao, Tadaaki Nagao,Jun Takeda, Masahiro Kitajima and Ikufumi Katayama

Ultrafast Insulator-Metal Transition in V02 Driven by Intense

Muiti-THz Pulses 637

A. Grupp, B. Mayer, C. Schmidt, J. Oelmann, R.E. Marvel,

R.F. Haglund Jr., A. Leitenstorfer and A. Pashkin

Coherent Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics Non-resonantlyInduced in Cobalt by an Intense Terahertz Transient 641

C. Vicario, F. Ardana-Lamas, P.M. Derlet, B. Tudu,

J. Luning and CP. Hauri

Beating of Terahertz Pulse Induced Spin Precession in ErFe03 645

Keita Yamaguchi, Takayuki Kurihara, Hiroshi Watanabe,

Makoto Nakajima, Takeo Kato and Tohru Suemoto

Resonant Antiferromagnetic Spin Wave Excitation

by Terahertz Magnetic Near-Field with Split Ring Resonator 649

Y. Mukai, H. Hirori, T. Yamamoto, H. Kageyama and K. Tanaka

Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in an Antiferromagnet NiO Observed

in Pump-Probe and Terahertz Experiments 653

Takeshi Moriyasu, Suguru Wakabayashi, Hogyun Jinn

and Toshiro Kohmoto

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Part IX Photoemitted Electron, Plasmon and Nanoplasmas

Controlling the Motion of Strong-Field, Few-CyclePhotoemitted Electrons in the Near-Field of a SharpMetal Tip 659

Petra Grofi, Bjorn Piglosiewicz, Slawa Schmidt, Doo Jae Park,

Jan Vogelsang, Jorg Robin, Cristian Manzoni, Paolo Farinello,

Giulio Cerullo and Christoph Lienau

Velocity Map Imaging of Electrons Strong-Field Photoemitted

from Si-Nanotip Arrays 663

Hong Ye. Jens S. Kienitz, Shaobo Fang, Sebastian Trippel,Michael E. Swanwick, Phillip D. Keathley, Luis F. Velasquez-Garcia,

Giovanni Cirmi, Giulio M. Rossi, Arya Fallahi, Oliver D. Miicke,

Jochen Kiipper and Franz X. Kartner

Visualization of Photocurrents in Nanoobjects by Ultrafast

Low-Energy Electron Point-Projection Imaging 667

M. Miiller. A. Paarmann and R. Ernstorfer

Visualization of Charge Carrier Motion in Semiconductor

Nanowires with Ultrafast Pump-Probe Microscopy 671

Michelle M. Gabriel, Erik M. Grumstrup, Justin R. Kirschbrown.

Christopher W. Pinion, Joseph D. Christesen. David F. Zigler,Emma E.M. Cating, James F. Cahoon and John M. Papanikolas

Ultrafast Optical Control of Charge Dynamics in Organic

and Hybrid Electronic Nanodevices 675

Artem A. Bakulin, Robert Lovrincic, Akshay Rao, Simon Gelinas,

Yu Xi. Oleg Selig, Zhuoying Chen, Richard H. Friend.

Huib J. Bakker and David Cahen

Ultrafast Non-thermal Response of Plasmonic Resonance

in Gold Nanoantennas 679

Giancarlo Soavi, Giuseppe Delia Valle. Paolo Biagioni,

Andrea Cattoni, Stefano Longhi, Giulio Cerullo and Daniele Brida

Control of Femtosecond Surface Plasmon Coupled onto

a Gold Tapered Tip and Its Nonlinear Emission 683

Kazunori Toma, Yuta Masaki, Kenichi Hirosawa

and Fumihiko Kannari

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Ultrafast Optical-Field Controlled Photoemission

from Plasmonic Nanoparticle Arrays 687

W.P. Putnam, R.G. Hobbs, Y. Yang, K.K. Berggren and F.X. Kartner

Real Space and Real Time Observation of Plasmon

Wavepacket Dynamics in Single Gold Nanorod 691

Y. Nishiyama, T. Narushima, K. Imura and H. Okamoto

Vector Pulse Shaped Ultrafast Plasmon Based on ResponseFunctions Measured for Orthogonally Polarized Excitation 694

Yuta Masaki, Miyuki Kusaba, Kazunori Toma and Fumihiko Kannari

Few-Cycle Laser Pulse Induced Plasmon Assisted Thermionic

Injection in Metal-Insulator-Metal Junctions 698

Matthias Hensen, Dominik Differt, Ingo Heesemann,

Christian Striiber, Adelheid Godt, Detlef Diesing and Walter Pfeiffer

Single Nanoparticles and Nanoplasmas in Femtosecond

Laser Fields 702

Daniel D. Hickstein, Franklin Dollar, Jennifer L. Ellis, Jim A. Gaffney,Mark E. Foord. George M. Petrov, Brett B. Palm, Chengyuan Ding,K. Ellen Keister, Stephen B. Libby, Jose L. Jimenez, Henry C. Kapteyn,

Margaret M. Murnane and Wei Xiong

Part X Novel Pulsed Sources and Application

Passively CEP-Stable Front End for Frequency Synthesis 709

Huseyin Qankaya, Anne-Laure Calendron and Franz X. Kartner

Tunable Few-Cycle Mid-IR Pulses Towards Single-Cycle

Duration by Adiabatic Frequency Conversion 713

Peter R. Krogen, Haim Suchowski, Gregory J. Stein,

Franz X. Kartner and Jeffrey Moses

Carrier-Envelope Phase of Single-Cycle Pulses Generated

Through Two-Color Laser Filamentation 717

Takao Fuji, Yutaka Nomura, Yu-Ting Wang. Atsushi Yabushita

and Chih-Wei Luo

Phase-Locked Multi-THz High-Harmonic Generation

by Dynamical Bloch Oscillations in Bulk Semiconductors 721

M. Hohenleutner, O. Schubert, F. Langer, B. Urbanek, C. Lange,U. Huttner. D. Golde, T. Meier, M. Kira, S.W. Koch and R. Huber

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Direct Generation of 7 fs Whitelight Pulses from Bulk Sapphire 725

Emanuel Wittmann, Maximilian Bradler and Eberhard Riedle

Ultrafast 2 urn Laser Oscillators Based on Thulium-DopedZBLAN Fibers 729

Yutaka Nomura, Masatoshi Nishio, Sakae Kawato and Takao Fuji

Characterizing Phase Fluctuations of Fiber Oscillators by UsingExternal Optical Cavities 732

D. Schimpf, R. Schmeissner, J. Schulte, W. Liu, F. Kartner

and N. Treps

Two Novel Schemes for Photon-Number Squeezed Pulse

Generation in Ultrafast Nonlinear Fiber Optics 736

Aruto Hosaka, Shota Sawai, Kenichi Hirosawa and Fumihiko Kannari

Towards a Compact Fiber Laser for Multimodal Imaging 740

Bai Nie, Ilyas Saytashev and Marcos Dantus

Measurement and Characterization of Sub-5 fs Broadband

UV Pulses in the 230-350 nm Range 744

Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Alessandra Picchiotti, Samansa Maneshi

and R.J. Dwayne Miller

Generation and Characterization of Tunable uJ-Level,Sub-10 fs UV Pulses 749

Rocio Borrego-Varillas, Alessia Candeo, Sandro De Silvestri,

Giulio Cerullo and Cristian Manzoni

Femtosecond Pulses in 375-405 nm Region by ChirpedSum Frequency 753

Prem B. Bisht and S. Akbar Ali

Pushing the NOPA to New Frontiers: Output to Below 400 nm,

MHz Operation and ps Pump Duration 757

Maximilian Bradler, Lamia Kasmi, Peter Baum and Eberhard Riedle

2 MHz Tunable Non Collinear Optical Parametric Amplifierswith Pulse Durations Down to 6 fs 761

Julien Nillon, Olivier Cregut, Christian Bressler and Stefan Haacke

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Fiber-Slab-Pumped OPCPA for XUV-Based Time-Resolved

Photoelectron Spectroscopy at 500 kHz Repetition Rate 766

Michele Puppin, Yunpei Deng, Oliver Prochnow, Jan Matyschok,Thomas Binhammer, Uwe Morgner, Martin Wolf and Ralph Ernstorfer

Sub-100 fs Mid-Infrared Pulses as Driver for a Table-Top Hard

X-Ray Source 770

Jannick Weisshaupt, Vincent Juve, Shian Ku, Marcel Holtz,

Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser, Skirmantas Alisauskas,

Audrius Pugzlys and Andrius Baltuska

Generation of Stationary On-Axis Optical Filaments by Means

of Dammann Lenses 774

J. Perez-Vizcaino, O. Mendoza-Yero, R. Borrego-Varillas,G. Minguez-Vega, J.R. Vazquez de Aldana and J. Lands

Wavefront Analysis of High-Efficiency, Large-Scale, Thin

Transmission Gratings 779

Chun Zhou, Takashi Seki, Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Yoshiyuki Kuramoto,

Takashi Sukegawa, Nobuhisa Ishii, Teruto Kanai, Jiro Itatani,

Yohei Kobayashi and Shuntaro Watanabe

Part XI Pulse Shaping and Manipulations

High-Energy Sub-Optical-Cycle Parametric Waveform Synthesizer . . .785

Giovanni Cirmi, Giulio M. Rossi, Shaobo Fang, Shih-Hsuan Chia,

Oliver D. Miicke, Cristian Manzoni, Paolo Farinello, Giulio Cerullo

and Franz X. Kartner

Above-Millijoule Optical Waveforms Compressible to Sub-fs

Using Induced-Phase Modulation in a Neon-Filled Hollow-Core

Fiber 789

Shaobo Fang, Hong Ye, Giovanni Cirmi, Giulio M. Rossi,

Shih-Hsuan Chia, Oliver D. Miicke and Franz X. Kartner

Isolating Quantum Coherence Using Coherent Multi-dimensional

Spectroscopy with Spectrally Shaped Pulses 793

Jonathan O. Tollerud, Christopher R. Hall and Jeffrey A. Davis

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Femtosecond Pulses Shaped

by Diffractive Optical Elements 797

Rocio Borrego-Varillas, Benjamin Alonso, Jorge Perez-Vizcaino,

Isabel Gallardo-Gonzalez, Gladys Minguez-Vega, Omel Mendoza-Yero,

Jesus Lancis, Andrew Forbes and Inigo J. Sola

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Spectral Shaping and Continuous Tuning of Multi-color

Carrier-Envelope Phase Locked Pulse 801

A. Yabushita, C.-H. Kao and T. Kobayashi

Tailoring of High-Field Multi-THz Waveforms with Sub-CyclePrecision 805

B. Mayer, C. Schmidt, J. Biihler, J. Fischer, D.V. Seletskiy,

D. Brida, A. Pashkin and Alfred Leitenstorfer

Over 1-mJ Intense Ultrashort Optical-Vortex Pulse Generation

with Programmable Topological-Charge Control by Chirped-Pulse

Amplification 809

Keisaku Yamane, Asami Honda, Yasunori Toda and Ryuji Morita

The Influence of Generalized Focusing on Polarization-Shaped

Few-Cycle Pulsed Beams 813

Balazs Major, Miguel A. Porras, Attila P. Kovacs

and Zoltan L. Horvath

Simultaneous Selective Two-Photon Microscopy Using MHz

Rate Pulse Shaping and Quadrature Detection

of the Time-Multiplexed Signal 817

Ilyas Saytashev, Bingwei Xu, Marshall T. Bremer and Marcos Dantus

Simultaneous Spatial and Temporal Focusing of Femtosecond

Laser Pulses for Directly Writing Optical Waveguidesin Pr3+Doped ZBLAN Glass 821

Yusuke Yamanaka. Kenichi Hirosawa and Fumihiko Kannari