Picosecond Phenomena: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Picosecond Phenomena. Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA, May 2426, 1978 [Paperback]

I. Interactions in Liquids and Molecules.- Dynamic Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules with Tunable Picosecond Pulses.- A New Technique for Measurement of Raman Dephasing Dynamics and Recent Advances in cw Mode-Locked Dye Lasers.- Picosecond Vibrational and Electronic Relaxation Processes in Molecules.- The Excited State Absorption Kinetics of Quinoxaline in Room Temperature Solution.- A Novel Technique for Monitoring Transient Optical Phenomena on a Picosecond Time Scale.- Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Subpicosecond States in Liquids.- Picosecond Laser Studies of Electron-Hole Interactions and Double Proton Transfer.- Polydiacetylenes, A Promising Material for Nonlinear Optics with Picosecond Pulses.- Short Pulse Absorption Spectroscopy of Nitromethane Photolysis.- II. Poster Session.- Singlet Exciton Interactions in Crystalline Naphthalene.- Intramolecular Lineshape Narrowing in the Overtone Spectrum of Benzene.- Kinetics of the Sensitized Fluorescence of Anthracene-Doped Naphthalene Following Two-Photon Picosecond-Pulse Excitation.- Picosecond Gain Kinetics of 1,4-Bis (2-Methylstyryl) Benzene.- Evidence for Nearly Transform-Limited Pulses from a Short Cavity Blue Dye Laser.- Applications of the Mode Locked Near UV Output from a Krypton Ion Laser in Chemical Analysis.- Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Rhodamine Dyes.- III. Sources and Techniques.- Anti-Stokes Emission as a VUV and Soft X-Ray Source.- Picosecond Phase Shift Measurements at 358 MHz Using Synchrotron Radiation.- High Power, Nearly Band-width Limited, Tunable Picosecond Pulses in the Visible and Infrared.- Sub-Picosecond Optical Gating and Wavefront Conjugation.- Parametric Study of Double Mode-Locking of the cw Dye Laser.- Subpicosecond Spectroscopy.- Synchronized Ultra-Short Pulse Generation and Streak-camera Measurement with cw Mode-Locked Lasers.- Picosecond Pulse Generation with a cw GaAlAs Laser Diode.- Investigation of the Parameters Affecting Subpicosecond Pulse Durations in Passively Mode Lol#'