Laser Optics of Condensed Matter

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Elementary Excitations and Excitation Transport

   1. Picosecond Resolved Optically Driven Phonon Dynamics

      • W. E. Bron

      Pages 1-8

   2. Relaxation and Propagation of High Frequency Phonons in Thin Crystalline Plates After Intense Laser Pumping

      • D. V. Kazakovtsev, A. A. Maksimov, D. A. Pronin, I. I. Tartakovskii

      Pages 9-17

   3. Evolution in Real Time and Space of Short Polariton Pulses in Crystals

      • F. Vallée, G. Gale, C. Flytzanis

      Pages 19-26

   4. Quasielastic Electronic Light Scattering in Semiconductors at Low Concentrations of Current Carriers

      • B. H. Bairamov, I. P. Ipatova, V. V. Toporov, V. A. Voitenko

      Pages 27-33

   5. Condensed Matter Science With Far Infra Red Free Electron Lasers

      • Vincent Jaccarino

      Pages 35-35

   6. Nonequilibrium Terahertz Range Acoustic Phonons and Luminescence of Excitons in Semiconductors

      • A. V. Akimov, A. A. Kaplyanskii, E. S. Moskalenko

      Pages 37-46

3. Optical Properties of Surfaces and Interfaces

   1. Nonlinear Optical Studies of Molecular Adsorbates

      • Y. R. Shen

      Pages 47-52

   2. Enhancement of Exciton Transition Probabilities in Ultrathin Films of Cadmium Telluride

      • V. S. Bagaev, D. V. Kazantsev, A. G. Poiarkov, A. A. Serov

      Pages 53-57

   3. Studies of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces by Three-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy

      • T. F. Heinz, F. J. Himpsel, M. M. T. Loy, E. Palange, E. Burstein

      Pages 59-59

   4. Time-Resolved Resonant Reflection of Light

      • J. Aaviksoo, J. Kuhl, I. Reimand

      Pages 61-69

   5. Femtosecond Photoemission Studies of Image Potential and Electron Dynamics in Metals

      • R. W. Schoenlein, J. G. Fujimoto, G. L. Eesley, W. Capehart

      Pages 71-82

   6. High-Intensity, Ultrashort Pulse Laser Heated Solids

      • R. W. Falcone, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn

      Pages 83-86

4. Optical Studies of Growth, Instabilities and Pattern Formation

   1. Control of Transversal Interactions in Nonlinear Optics: New Spatio-Temporal Effects in Nonlinear Wave Dynamics

      • S. A. Akhmanov, M. A. Vorontsov, A. V. Larichev

      Pages 87-87

   2. Synchronization of Atomic Quantum Transitions by Light Pulses

      • V. P. Chebotayev, V. A. Ulybin, V. M. Klementiev, O. I. Pyltzyn, V. F. Zakhariash

      Pages 89-97

   3. Chaos in Nonlinear Optics

      • Robert W. Boyd, Alexander L. Gaeta

      Pages 99-105

   4. Self-Organization and Spatio-Temporal Chaos in Phase-Locked Semiconductor Laser Arrays

      • Herbert G. Winful

      Pages 107-107

   5. Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics in Optical Neural Networks

      • Dana Z. Anderson

      Pages 109-109

   6. Transitions Between Ordered and Disordered Solid-Melt Patterns Formed on Silicon by Continuous Laser Beams: Competition Between Electrodynamics and Thermodynamics

      • K. Dworschak, J. E. Sipe, H. M. van Driel

      Pages 111-120

5. Elementary Excitations and Excitation Transport

   1. Light Scattering in Oxide Superconductors

      • P. E. Sulewski, P. A. Fleury, K. B. Lyons

      Pages 121-130

The Fourth USA-USSR Symposium. on The Physics of Optical Phenomena and Their Use as Probes of Matter, was held in Irvine, California, January 23-27, 1990. Participating in the Symposium were 22 scientists from the USSR and 29 from the USA. In addition, to provide an international dimension to this Symposium without, however, compromising significantly its essentially binational character, 7 non-US and non-USSR scientists were invited to take part in it. The present volume is the proceedings of that Symposium, and contains all manuscripts received prior to August 1, 1990, representing. scientific contributions presented. A few manuscripts were not received, but for completeness the corresponding abstract is printed.. Three previous USA/USSR Binational Symposia on related topics have been held, viz. "Theory of Light Scattering in Condensed Matter" (Moscow, 1975), "Light Scattering in Solids" (New York, 1979), and "Laser Optics of Condensed Matter" (Leningrad, 1987). These meetings were evaluated by the participants as highly successful and provided invaluable oppor­ tunities for researchers to exchange information and to initiate colla­ borative work which led to research visits by US physicist to Soviet laboratories, and vice versa, and which continue to the present day.

• condensed matter
• laser
• light scattering
• optics
• scattering

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Elsa Garmire

• University of California, Irvine, USA

  Alexei A. Maradudin

• Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, USSR

  Karl K. Rebane

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