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I Advances in the Generation of Ultrashort Light Pulses.- Moving from the Picosecond to the Femtosecond Time Regime.- Femtosecond Optical Pulses: Towards Tunability at the Gigawatt Level.- Femtosecond Continuum Generation.- New Picosecond Sources and Techniques.- Generation of Coherent Tunable Picosecond Pulses in the XUV.- New Infrared Dyes for Synchronously Pumped Picosecond Lasers.- Acousto-Optic Stabilization of Mode-Locked Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser.- Active Mode Stabilization of Synchronously Pumped Dye Lasers.- Spectral Hole Burning in the Saturation Region of Mode-Locked Nd-Glass Lasers.- Single and Double Mode-Locked Ring Dye Lasers; Theory and Experiment.- Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Colliding Pulse Mode-Locking (CPM).- Picosecond Carrier Dynamics and Laser Action in Optically Pumped Buried Heterostructure Lasers.- Optically Pumped Semiconductor Platelet Lasers in External Cavities.- Two Photon Pumped Bulk Semiconductor Laser for the Generation of Picosecond Pulses.- The Pulse Duration of a Distributed Feedback Dye Laser Under Single Pulse Conditions.- Picosecond Distributed Feedback Dye Laser Tunable in a Broad Spectral Range.- Modelocking of a Wavelength Tunable High-Pressure CO2-Laser by Synchronous Modulation of a Broadband Intracavity Saturable Absorber.- The Non-Mode-Locked Picosecond Laser.- A Novel Method for Generating Sub-Transform Limited Picosecond Nd:YAG Laser Pulses.- Optical Dephasing in Inorganic Glasses.- Port II Ultrashort Measuring Techniques.- Picosecond Holographic Grating Experiments in Molecular Condensed Phases.- Self-Diffraction from Laser-Induced Orientational Gratings in Semiconductors.- A Picosecond Raman Technique with Resolution Four Times Better than Obtained by Spontaneous Raman Spectroscopy.- Broadband CARS Probe Using the Picosecond Continuum.- Jitter-Free Streak Camera System.- Electrical Transient Sampling System with Two Picosecond Resolution.- High-Resolution Picosecond Modulation Spectroscopy of Near Interband Resonances in Semiconductors.- Electron Diffraction in the Picosecond Domain Steven Williamson and Gerhard Mourou and Synchronous Amplification of 70 fsec Pulses Using a Frequency-Doubled Nd:YAG Pumping Source.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Photoacoustic Spectroscopy.- Subpicosecond Pulse Shape Measurement and Modeling of Passively Mode Locked Dye Lasers Including Saturation and Spatial Hole Burning.- Experimental Demonstration of a New Technique to Measure Ultrashort Dephasing Times.- Optical Pulse Compression with Reduced Wings.- Polarition-Induced Compensation of Picosecond Pulse Broadening in Optical Fibers.- III Advances in Optoelectronics.- Generation and Pulsewidth Measurement of Amplified Ultrashort Ultraviolet Laser Pulses in Krypton Fluoride.- Addressing and Control of High-Speed GaAs FET Logic Circuits with Picosecond Light Pulses.- Surface Metal-Oxide-Silicon-Oxide-Metal Picosecond Photodetector.- Solid-State Detector for Single-Photon Measurements of Fluorescence Decays with 100 Picosecond FWHM Resolution.- Picosecond Optoelectric Modulation of Millimeter-Waves in GaAs Waveguide.- Synchroscan Streak Camera Measurements of Mode-Propagation in Optical Fibers.- IV Relaxation Phenomena in Molecular Physics.- Picosecond Lifetimes and Efficient Decay Channels of Vibrational Models of Polyatomic Molecules in Liquids.- Vibrational Population Decay and Dephasing of Small and Large Polyatomic Molecules in Liquids.- Mechanisms for Ultrafast Vibrational Energy Relaxation of Polyatomic Molecules.- Studies of the Generation and Energy Relaxation in Chemical Intermediates-Divalent Carbon Molecules and Singlet Oxygen.- New Developments in Picosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Vibrational Relaxation Phenomena.- Picosecond Photon Echo and Coherent Raman Scattering Studies of Dephasing in Mixed Molecular Crystals.- Picosecond Laser Spectroscopy of Molecules in Supersonic Jets: Vibrational Energy Redistribution and Quantum Beats.- Picosecond Studies of Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution in S1p-Difluorobenzene Vapor.- Direct Picosecond Resolving of Hot Luminescence Spectrum.- The Temperature Dependence of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Vibrational Linewidth Broadening Studies Using Coherent Picosecond Stokes Scattering.- A Picosecond CARS-Spectrometer Using Two Synchronously Mode-Locked CW Dye Lasers.- Picosecond Studies of Intramolecular Charge Transfer Processes in Excited A-D Molecules.- Femtosecond Transient Birefringence in CS2.- Time-Resolved Observation of Molecular Dynamics in Liquids by Femtosecond Interferometry.- Time-Resolved Measurement of Non-linear Susceptibilities by Optical Kerr Effect.- Subpicosecond Laser Spectroscopy: Pulse Diagnostics and Molecular Dynamics in Liquids.- Viscosity-Dependent Internal Rotation in Polymethine Dyes Measured by Picosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy.- Rotational Diffusion in Mixed Solvents Measured by Picosecond Fluorescence Anisotropy.- Investigation of Level Kinetics and Reorientation by Means of Double Pulse Excited Fluorescence.- Dynamics of Photoisomerization.- Evidence for the Existence of a Short-Lived Twisted Electronic State in Triphenylmethane Dyes.- Kinetics of Stimulated and Spontaneous Emission of Dye Solutions Under Picosecond Excitation.- Picosecond Resolution Studies of Ground State Quantum Beats and Rapid Collisional Relaxation Processes in Sodium Vapor.- V Picosecond Chemical Processes.- Unimolecular Processes and Vibrational Energy Randomization.- Picosecond Dynamics of I2 Photodissociation.- Vibrational Predissociation of S-Tetrazine-Ar van der Waals-Molecules.- Picosecond Laser Induced Fluorescence Probing of NO2 Photofragments.- Excited State Proton Transfer in 2-(2-?Hydroxyphenyl)-Benzoxazole.- Picosecond Dynamics of Unimolecular Ion Pair Formation.- Effect of Polymerization on the Fluorescence Lifetime of Eosin in Water.- VI Ultrashort Processes in Biology.- Picosecond Processes Involving CO, O2, and NO Derivatives of Hemeproteins.- Femtosecond and Picosecond Transient Processes After Photolysis of Liganded Hemeproteins.- Picosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Hematoporphyrin Derivative and Related Porphyrins.- Resonance Raman Spectra of Picosecond Transients: Application to Bacteriorhodopsin.- Picosecond Studies of Bacteriorhodopsin Intermediates from 11-cis Rhodopsin and 9-cis Rhodopsin.- Multiple Photon Processes in Molecules Induced by Picosecond UV Laser Pulses.- P-BR and Its Role in the Photocycle of Bacteriorhodopsin.- Picosecond Linear Dichroism Spectroscopy of Retinal.- Picosecond Absorption Spectroscopy of Biliverdin.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of the Photolysis Product of Oxy-Hemoglobin.- VII Applications in Solid-State Physics.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Detection of Plasma Formation and Phase Transition in Silicon.- Spectroscopy of Picosecond Relaxation Processes in Semiconductors.- Picosecond Spectroscopy of Excitonic Molecules and High Density Electron-Hole Plasma in Direct-Gap Semiconductors.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Study of Highly Excited CuCl.- Picosecond Dynamics of Excitonic Polariton in CuCl.- Picosecond Spectroscopy of Highly Excited GaAs and CdS.- Non-Linear Attenuation of Excitonic Polariton Pulses in CdSe.- Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Study of n Type CdS and CdSe Photoelectrode.- Time-Resolved Spatial Expansion of the Electron-Hole Plasma in Polar Semiconductors.- Weak-Wave Retardation and Phase-Conjugate Self-Defocusing in Si.- Ultrafast Relaxations of Photoinduced Carriers in Amorphous Semiconductors.- Periodic Ripple Structures on Semiconductors Under Picosecond Pulse Illumination.- Transmission of Picosecond Laser-Excited Germanium at Various Wavelengths.- Nonlinear Interactions in Indium Antimonide.- Picosecond Relaxation Kinetics of Highly Photogenerated Carriers in Semiconductors.- Picosecond Radiative and Nonradiative Recombination in Amorphous As2S3.- Index of Contributors.