Preface |
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1. Nonlinear Optics for Characterizing XUV/Soft X-ray High-order Harmonic Fields in Attosecond Regime |
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Yasuo Nabekawa and Katsunii Midorikawa |
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1.1. Nonlinear phenomena in XUV/soft X-ray region for ultrafast optics |
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1.2. Autocorrelation measurement |
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2. Generation of Intense Harmonic Fields |
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2.1. Single atom response |
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2.2. Propagation of the harmonic fields with pumping- laser field: Phase matching |
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2.3. Development of intense high-order harmonic generator |
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3. Two-Photon Double Ionization |
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4. Measurement of Attosecond Pulse Train with Two-Photon ATI |
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5. Interferometric Autocorrelation of APT with Two-Photon Coulomb Explosion |
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5.1. Similarity of APT with mode-locked laser pulses |
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5.2. Why do we need interferometric autocorrelation? |
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5.3. Two-photon Coulomb explosion |
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5.4. Interferometric autocorrelation |
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2. Signatures of Molecular Structure and Dynamics in High-Order Harmonic Generation |
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Manfred Lein and Ciprian C. Chirild |
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2. Theory of High-Order Harmonic Generation |
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2.3. The strong-field approximation |
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2.4. Odd and even harmonics |
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3. Influence of Molecular Structure on HHG |
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3. Molecular Manipulation Techniques and Their Applications |
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2. Theoretical Background |
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3. Molecular Orientation with Combined Electrostatic and Intense, Nonresonant Laser Fields |
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3.1. One-dimensional molecular orientation |
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3.2. Three-dimensional molecular orientation |
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4. Applications with a Sample of Aligned Molecules |
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4.1. Optimal control of multiphoton ionization processes in aligned 12 molecules with time-dependent polarization pulses |
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4.2. High-order harmonic generation from aligned molecules |
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4. Sum Frequency Generation: An Introduction with Recent Developments and Current Issues |
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2. Electric Fields and Orientation Factors |
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2.1. Fresnel factors and propagation direction |
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2.2.1. Simplification of the orientation tensor |
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2.3.1. Molecular examples |
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3.1. Absolute orientation determination with a reference |
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3.2. Orthogonal resonances |
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3.3.1. Visible angle null, VAN |
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3.3.2. Polarization angle null, PAN |
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3.3.3. Connection with previous work |
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4. Current Issues in Sum Frequency Generation |
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4.1. Interfacial optical constants and bulk contributions |
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4.2. Collective modes — a theoretical challenge |
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5.1. Ions at aqueous surfaces: The case for surface H30+ |
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5.2. Interactions at nanostructured interfaces |
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5. Propagation and Intramolecular Coupling Effects in the Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy |
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2. Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy |
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2.1. Study and characterization of FWM signal in the frequency space |
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2.2. Effects of solute concentration, field intensity, and spectral inhomogeneous broadening on FWM |
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2.2.1. Propagation effects |
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2.2.2. Topological studies for the FWM signal surfaces |
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2.2.3. Spectra in the frequency space |
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2.3. Approximation levels for the study of the propagation in FWM |
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3. Intramolecular Coupling |
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3.2. Theoretical characteristics of the model |
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3.4. Results and discussion |
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6. Control of Molecular Chirality by Lasers |
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Kunihito Hoki and Yuichi Fujimura |
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2. Fundamental Issues in Laser Control of Molecular Chirality |
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2.1. Laser control of an ensemble of racemic mixtures |
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2.2. Photon polarizations of lasers |
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2.3. Density matrix treatment of a racemic mixture |
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3.1. Pump—dump control via an electronic excited state |
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3.2. Control of molecular chirality in a randomly oriented racemic mixture using three polarization components of electric fields |
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3.3. Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage method |
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3.4. Sequential pump—dump control of chirality transformation competing with photodissociation in an electronic excited state |
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