Contents
Laser Physics

Vol. 16, No. 4, 2006

The Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS’05),
Kyoto, Japan, July 4–8, 2005

Modern Trends in Laser Physics

Effect of Magnetic Field on the Stimulated Photon Echo in Ytterbium Vapors

I. V. Yevseyev, V. N. Ishchenko, S. A. Kochubei, V. A. Reshetov, N. N. Rubtsova,
and E. B. Khvorostov p. 535  abstract

Coherent Transients at Dressed Levels

N. N. Rubtsova, V. A. Reshetov, and E. B. Khvorostov p. 543  abstract

Energetic Ion Generation by Coulomb Explosion in Cluster Gas and a Low-Density
Plastic Foam with an Intense Femtosecond Laser

S. Sakabe, M. Hashida, and S. Shimizu p. 551  abstract

How Small a Packet of Photons Can Be Made?

P. Saari p. 556  abstract

Widely Tunable Monochromatic THz Sources Based on Phase-Matched Difference-Frequency
Generation in Nonlinear-Optical Crystals: A Novel Approach

Y. J. Ding and W. Shi p. 562  abstract

Excitation of Nuclei by Photon Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum

A. A. Zadernovsky p. 571  abstract

Strong Field Phenomena

Generation and Characterization of Electrons from a Gas Target Irradiated
by High-Peak-Power Lasers

M. Kando, S. Masuda, A. Zhidkov, A. Yamazaki, H. Kotaki, S. Kondo, T. Homma,
S. Kanazawa, K. Nakajima, L.-M. Chen, J. Ma, Y. Hayashi, M. Mori, H. Kiriyama,
Y. Akahane, N. Inoue, H. Ueda, Y. Nakai, K. Tsuji, Y. Yamamoto, J. Koga, T. Hosokai,
K. Kinoshita, A. Maekawa, M. Uesaka, S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, M. Yamagiwa,
T. Kimura, K. Yamakawa, and T. Tajima p. 576  abstract

On the Acceleration of Ions from Exploding Clusters

D. Mathur and M. Krishnamurthy p. 581  abstract

Early Time Errants during Field-Induced Pair Creation

P. Krekora, K. Cooley, Q. Su, and R. Grobe p. 588  abstract

Expansion of Planar and Spherical Plasma Bunches

F. Ceccherini, S. Betti, F. Cornolti, and F. Pegoraro p. 594  abstract

Ionization of Lithium in a Strong Laser Field

C. Ruiz, L. Plaja, and L. Roso p. 600  abstract

Tunneling and Other Modes of Atomic Ionization in the Presence of Strong Few-Cycle
Laser Pulses and Generation of Attosecond Pulses

A. M. Popov, O. V. Tikhonova, and E. A. Volkova p. 607  abstract

Features of the Tunneling of a System with an Internal Degree of Freedom
through a Potential Barrier

E. A. Volkova, A. M. Popov, and O. V. Tikhonova p. 618  abstract

Biophotonics

Imaging in Turbid Media with Intensity-Modulated Lasers

G. H. Rutherford, M. Narter, S. Menon, Q. Su, and R. Grobe p. 627  abstract

Optical Characteristics of a Turbid Medium between Two Mirrors

R. Wenning, Q. Su, and R. Grobe p. 631  abstract

Development of a Laser-Driven Proton Accelerator for Cancer Therapy

C.-M. Ma, I. Veltchev, E. Fourkal, J. S. Li, W. Luo, J. Fan, T. Lin, and A. Pollack p. 639  abstract

Phase Rotation Scheme of Laser-Produced Ions for Reduction of the Energy Spread

A. Noda, S. Nakamura, Y. Iwashita, S. Sakabe, M. Hashida, T. Shirai, S. Shimizu,
H. Tongu, H. Ito, H. Souda, A. Yamazaki, M. Tanabe, H. Daido, M. Mori, M. Kado,
A. Sagisaka, K. Ogura, M. Nishiuchi, S. Orimo, Y. Hayashi, A. Yogo,
S. Bulanov, T. Esirkepov, A. Nagashima, T. Kimura, T. Tajima,
T. Takeuchi, K. Matsukado, A. Fukumi, and Z. Li p. 647  abstract

Heavy-Ion Cancer Therapy

M. Torikoshi p. 654  abstract

Development of a Laser-Driven Plasma Cathode for Medical Applications

K. Kinoshita, T. Hosokai, T. Ohkubo, A. Maekawa, A. Zhidkov, and M. Uesaka p. 660  abstract

Physics of Lasers

Development of High-Repetition-Rate LD Pumped Nd:YAG Laser and Its Application

H. Kiriyama and K. Yamakawa p. 666  abstract

Development of a 100-kHz Femtosecond High-Power Laser Using Down-Chirped
Regenerative Amplification

K.-H. Hong, T. J. Yu, S. Kostritsa, J. H. Sung, I. W. Choi, Y.-C. Noh, D.-K. Ko, and J. Lee p. 673  abstract

Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms

Exact Soliton Solutions of Spinor Bose–Einstein Condensates

J. Ieda, T. Miyakawa, and M. Wadati p. 678  abstract

Making Atom–Atom Correlations Observable by Feedback Control

D. Ivanov and S. Wallentowitz p. 683  abstract

Definition and Measurement of Global Thermodynamic Variables for Laser-Cooled
Trapped Gas

R. R. Silva, E. A. L. Henn, K. M. F. Magalhães, L. G. Marcassa, V. Romero-Rochin,
and V. S. Bagnato p. 687  abstract

Dipole Oscillations in a Bose–Fermi Mixture in the Time-Dependent Approach

T. Maruyama and G. F. Bertsch p. 693  abstract

Disorder Physics in Mixtures of Fermionic Atoms

K. Ziegler p. 699  abstract

Ultracold Atom–Molecule Collisions with Hyperfine Coupling

A. Simoni and J.-M. Launay p. 707  abstract

Quantum-Degenerate Gases of Ytterbium Atoms

Y. Takasu, T. Fukuhara, M. Kitagawa, M. Kumakura, and Y. Takahashi p. 713  abstract

All-Optical Formation of Molecules with Spin Degree of Freedom in an Atomic
Bose–Einstein Condensate

J. Kobayashi, Y. Izumi, M. Kumakura , and Y. Takahashi, p. 718  abstract

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

Entangled Finitely Correlated Quantum Spin Chains

F. Benatti, B. C. Hiesmayr, and H. Narnhofer p. 723  abstract

How to Utilize a Grover Search in General Programming

S. Yamashita p. 730  abstract

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