Ultrafast Phenomena X: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, del Coronado, CA, May 28 - June 1, 1996 (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

I Ultrafast Lasers and Sources.- Advances in All-Solid-State Ultrafast Lasers.- Physics and Scaling of Saturable Bragg Reflector-Modelocked Diode-Pumped Solid State Ultrafast Lasers.- Ultrabroad-Band Ring Oscillator for Short Pulse Generation.- Frequency-Dependent Mode-Size in Kerr-Lens Modelocked Lasers.- Toward Coherent Control on a Sub-10fs Time Scale.- Generation Dynamics of Solid-State Lasers Mode Locked by Antiresonant Loop.- Ultraviolet Picosecond Pulses from an All-Solid-State Ce:Flouride Master Oscillator and Power Amplifier System.- High-Power and Frequency-Doubled Stretched-Pulse Fiber Laser.- An Electronically Wavelength Tunable Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Using an All-Fiber Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter.- Femtosecond Chirped-Pulse Multifrequency Sources.- "Pulse Shaping" of Incoherent Light by Use of a Liquid Crystal Modulator Array.- High-Resolution Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping for Quantum Control and Terabit per Second Communications.- 10- to 80-Gb/s, Highly Extinctive Electrooptic Pulse Pattern Generation.- II Parameteric Generation.- Ultrafast Visible Optical Parametric Oscillators: A Route to Tunable Sub-10-Femtosecond Pulses?.- Tunable 50 fs Pulses in the Visible by Up-Conversion of Parametrically Generated Pulses in the Near Infrared.- A Potassium Niobate OPA Pumped by an Amplified Ti:Sapphire Laser.- Midinfrared Femtosecond Pulse Generation Using a 250 kHz Ti:Sapphire Pumped BBO OPA and DFG in AgGaS2.- Generation and Applications of Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses Obtained by Optical Rectification of 15-fs Near-Infrared Pulses.- Fiber Laser Pumped Femtosecond Optical Parametric Generator.- III Terahertz Sources and Techniques.- Previously Impossible Measurements Made Possible by THz-Time-Domain Spectroscopy.- Noncontact Semiconductor Wafer Characerization with T-Rays.- Electro-Optic Imaging of THz Beams.- High Resolution Sub-Millimeter Spectroscopy Using Mode-Locked Laser Driven Electro-Optic Antennas.- Pulsed Terahertz Spectroscopy of Solutions: Experiment and Memory Function Analysis.- Free-Space Electro-Optic Samplers.- Tunable Photoconducting Emitters and Detectors of Free Space Terahertz Radiation.- Superradiant Terahertz Emission from Bloch Oscillations.- Transient Grating with Asymmetric Arms for Electro-Optic Generation of THz Radiation.- Terahertz Waveform Synthesis and Enhanced Narrow-Band Terahertz Generation Using Femtosecond Pulse Shaping.- Diffracting Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy Using Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses.- IV High Brightness Light Pulses: Systems and Techniques.- Generation of 25 TW, 32 fs Pulses at 10 Hz.- Sub-20-fs Multiterawatt Laser and Ultrafast X-Ray Source.- 16 fs Pulse Generation and Measurement in the Ultraviolet and Vacuum Ultraviolet.- High Energy 10 fs Pulses by a New Pulse Compression Technique Using Hollow Quartz Waveguides.- On the Pulse Quality Limitations in Ultrashort Chirped Pulse Amplification.- Chirped-Pulse Amplifiaction with a Fiber Stretcher and a Grism Compressor.- Regenerative Pulse Shaping: A New Technique for Ultrabroadband Amplification.- Compensation of SPM-Induced Pulse Distortions in Chirped-Pulse Amplification Systems.- V High-Field Physics and X-Ray Generation.- Laser Electron Interactions at Critical Field Strength.- Nonlinear Optics in the Relativistic Regime.- Excitation of Surface Electromagnetic Waves in High-Temperature Near-Surface Plasmas; Resonance Second Harmonic Generation.- Selfchannelling of Intense Femtosecond Optical Pulses Through Air in the Transient Regime.- Enhanced Ionization of Molecular Ions in Intense Laser Fields: Experiments on the Iodine Melecule.- Direct Observation of Coherent Two-Photon Medium Response Induced by Femtosecond Deep UV-Laser Pulses in Krytpon.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Pump-Probe XUV Absorption L-Edge Spectroscopy.- Measurement of High Harmonic Pulse Durations Via Laser Assisted X-Ray Photoionization.- Energy Penetration of Ultrahigh Intensity Short Laser Pulses into Overdense Plasmas