Contents
Laser Physics

Vol. 5, No. 3, 1995

Special Issue “Transient Coherent Phenomena”

(the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Laser Physics (LPHYS-94), New York, October 10-14, 1994)

From the Proceedings Editors

S. R. Hartmann, J. T. Manassah, A. M. Prokhorov, and V. I. Yukalov

Opening Lecture

Coherence – A Powerful Concept in the Studies of Structures and Dynamics

Ahmed H. Zewail p. 417

I. Modified Atomic Emission

Dynamic Modification of Atomic Decay in a Cavity

W. Lange and H. Walther p. 443

Radiating Coherent Atomic Wave Packets

Kazimierz Rzelewski, Mikhail Ivanov, Luis Pumares, Luis Plaja, and Luis Roso p. 451

Quantum Interference and Propagation Effects in the Free-Induction Decay
from Nonstationary Multilevel Systems

John Sweetser and Ian Walmsley p. 461

Suppression and Shifting of Certain Optically Pumped Stimulated Emissions
due to Wave-Mixing Interference

W. R. Garrett p. 466

Spectral and Spatial Characteristics
of Optically Pumped Cascade Emissions in Na Vapor

M. Bashkansky, P. Battle, R. Mahon, and J. Reintjes p. 474

II. Two-Level System

Modulation-Induced Multitransparency, Inhibition of Dynamics,
and High-Order Frequency Mixing
in a Periodically Driven Two-Level Atomic System

A. E. Kaplan and E. Hudis p. 479

Transitions between Dressed States

Neil B. Manson, Changjiang Wei, Scott A. Holmstrom, and John P. D. Martin p. 486

Modification of Noisy Fields Propagating in Two-Level Media

Jamal T. Manassah and Barry Gross p. 490

Two-Level Atoms in Non-Markovian Fields:
Theory and Experiment

Gautam Vemuri p. 499

III. Superradiance

Amplifiers in the Superradiant Regime:
I. Two-Level System

Jamal T. Manassah and Barry Gross p. 509

Amplifiers in the Superradiant Regime:
II. Three-Level Homogeneously Broadened System

Jamal T. Manassah and Barry Gross p. 517

Coherence Inhibition in Cascade Superfluorescence

X. Lu, J. H. Brownell, and S. R. Hartmann p. 522

Transient Coherent Phenomena in Radiofrequency Region

V. I. Yukalov p. 526

Optical Superradiance in a Crystal of Biphenyl with Pyrene

V. V. Samartsev, S. N. Andrianov, Yu. E. Sheibut, P. V. Zinoviev, and N. B. Silaeva p. 534

IV. Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
and Lasing without Inversion

Adiabatons – New Forms of Induced Transparency
in Three-Level Media

R. Grobe and J. H. Eberly p. 542

Amplification without Inversion due to Atomic Interference
in Three-Level Media

Paul Mandel p. 547

Experimental Demonstration of Continuous Wave Amplification
without Inversion via Quantum Interference in Rb

A. S. Zibrov, M. D. Lukin, D. E. Nikonov, L. W. Hollberg,
M. O. Scully, and V. L. Velichansky p. 553

A Study of Optical Gain due to Coherence Effects in Potassium

J. A. Kleinfeld and A. D. Streater p. 556

Classical Free Electron Lasers without Inversion

Boris Sherman, Gershon Kurizki, Dmitri E. Nikonov, and Marlan O. Scully p. 563

V. Long Lived Photon Echoes and Photon Echo Memory

Photon Echoes in Rare Earth Doped Solids – A Materials Perspective

R. M. Macfarlane p. 567

Ultraslow Dephasing and Dephasing Mechanisms in Rare Earth Materials
for Optical Data Storage

R. L. Cone, R. W. Equall, Y. Sun, R. M. Macfarlane, and R. Hutcheson p. 573

Recording, Storage, and Reproduction of Information
by Means of Photon Echo

V. M. Yermachenko and I. V. Yevseyev p. 576

Polarization Properties of Photon Echoes
in Molecular Iodine and Their Application

I. S. Bikbov, I. I. Popov, V. V. Samartsev, and I. V. Yevseyev p. 580

VI. Polaritons

Stationary and Time-Dependent Quantum Effects in Polaritons

M. Artoni and J. L. Birman p. 584

Transient Optically Excited States in Semiconductors
and Metallic Thin Films

W. E. Bron p. 590

Time-Resolved Investigation of Surface-Induced Phonon–Polariton Dephasing

F. Vallée and Ch. Flytzanis p. 598

VII. Transients in Solids

Ultrafast Coherent Phenomena in Solids

Peter Thomas and Ernst O. Göbel p. 603

Ultrafast Hole Relaxation in Semiconductors

Michael Woerner p. 611

Transient Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing on Excitons
in GaAs Quantum Wells

J. Kuhl, E. J. Mayer, G. O. Smith, K. Bott, A. Schulze, T. Meier,
V. Heuckeroth, O. Heller, S. T. Cundiff, D. Bennhardt, S. W. Koch,
P. Thomas, R. Hey, and K. Ploog p. 616

Excitation-Induced Optical Nonlinearities in GaAs

K. B. Ferrio and D. G. Steel p. 621

Role of Electron–Hole Pair Correlations in Gain
and Stimulated Emission of Blue-Green Semiconductor Lasers

A. V. Nurmikko, J. Ding, R. L. Gunshor, and J. Han p. 628

LiF: Color-Center Behavior in Strong Laser Fields

N. N. Il’ichev, A. V. Kir’yanov, and P. P. Pashinin p. 634

Photon Echo in LaF₃:Pr³⁺ Influenced
by an Electromagnetic Field Pulse Prior to Laser Excitations

A. M. Shegeda, V. A. Zuikov, B. M. Khabibullin, V. N. Lisin, and V. V. Samartsev p. 639

VIII. Molecular Dynamics

Broadly Tunable High-Repetition Rate Femtosecond Sources
and Transient Coherent Wavepacket Oscillations

C. L. Tang p. 642

Spectral Diffusion of Single Molecule Lines in Polymers

L. Fleury, R. Brown, J. Bernard, and M. Orrit p. 648

Vibrational Dynamics of Liquids and Glasses Probed
with IR Photon Echoes

A. Tokmakoff, A. Kowk, R. Urdahl, D. A. Zimdars, R. Francis, and M. D. Fayer p. 652

Raman Echoes on Vibrations in Liquids

Mark Berg and David Vanden Bout p. 656

Vibrational Echo Phenomena in Weakly Anharmonic Oscillators

John T. Fourkas p. 661

Ultrasharp Spectra and Ultrafast Timing from Noisy Coherence
in Four-Wave Mixing

A. C. Albrecht, S. P. Smith, D. Tan, S. A. Schaertel, and D. DeMott p. 667

Incoherent Broad-Band Time-Delayed Four-Wave-Mixing Spectroscopy
of Nile Blue in Polyvinyl Alcohol

Yiping Zhang, Fred Moshary, and S. R. Hartmann p. 676

Photon Echoes of Pulsed Photodissociation via Photoinduced Harpoon Reactions

V. A. Dubovitskii, A. M. Dykhne, and A. G. Rudavets p. 682

IX. Transients in Biological Systems

Femtosecond Accumulated Photon Echo Spectroscopy
on a Human Stomach Cancer

Kiyoshi Uchikawa and Masashi Okada p. 687

Femtosecond Dynamics of Population and Coherence
of the S₂ Singlet Excited State of Bacteriochlorophyll
(the Q_x Absorption Band) in vivo and in vitro

A. O. Ganago, E. P. Parker, P. D. Laible, A. C. Albrecht, and T. G. Owens p. 693

X. Dynamics of Kerr Media

The Kramers–Kronig Relations in Transient Spectroscopy

Takayoshi Kobayashi, Eiji Tokunaga, and Akira Terasaki p. 699

Optical Transistor Effect Using an Optical Vortex Soliton

G. A. Swartzlander, Jr., D. L. Drugan, N. Hallak, M. O. Freeman, and C. T. Law p. 704

Book Review

A. Katzir, Lasers and Optical Fibers in Medicine (San Diego: Academic 1993)

V. V. Tuchin

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