In this book the generation of tunable, ultrashort pulse, ultrahigh intensity dye-laser radiation is treated in detail by leading experts in the field. The numerous, up-to-date literature references will make this volume invaluable to all researchers and graduate students dealing with dye lasers and their applications.

Inhalt
Femtosecond broadband absorption spectroscopy of photodissociating molecules.- Dye lasers and laser dyes in physical chemistry.- Single-atom experiments and the test of fundamental quantum physics.- Regioselective photochemistry in weakly bonded complexes.- Novel resonator design for femtosecond lasers.- Distortion of femtosecond pulse fronts in lenses.- Infrared dye lasers for the wavelength range 12 ?m.- Propagation of femtosecond light pulses through dye amplifiers.- Terawatt-class hybrid dye/excimer lasers.- Blue-Green dye laser seeded operation of a terawatt excimer amplifier.- Atomic optics with tunable dye lasers.- Laser spectroscopy of small molecules.- In Situ gas-phase diagnostics by coherent anti-stokes raman scattering.- High-resolution spectroscopy at short wavelengths using pulsed dye lasers.- Doppler-free spectroscopy of large polyatomic molecules and van der waals complexes.- Electro-optic and photoconductive sampling of ultrafast photodiodes with femtosecond laser pulses.- Ultrafast spectroscopy of plasmas generated by very intense Femtosecond dye laser pulses.- Dye laser spectroscopy of isolated atoms and ions in liquid helium.