Table of Contents
Coherent Optimal Control
1. Controlling Molecular Motion: The Molecule Knows Best, Herschel Rabitz
2. Variations on the Theme of Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage: Control of Chemical Reactions, Suhail P. Shah, Vandana Kurkal, and Stuart A. Rice
3. Laser Control of Selective Preparation of Preoriented Enatiomers from their Racemate, K. Hoki and Y. Fujimara
4. Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Channel Phase in the Coherent Control of Molecular Processes, Richard Billotto, Ani Khachatrian, Langchi Zhu, Robert J. Gordon, Hélène Lefebvre-Brion, and Tamar Seidman
5. Four-Wave Mixing and Coherent Control, Vadim V. Lozovoy, Matthew Comstock, and Marcos Dantus
6. Control of Chemical Reactions by Using Chirped Laser Pulses, Junichi Shimamura, Kenji Mishima, and Koichi Yamashita
7. Selective Excitation among Closely Lying Multilevels, Kuninobu Nagaya, Yoshiaki Teranishi, and Hiroki Nakamura
8. Laser Manipulation of Differential Autoionization Yields: Pump-Dump Control through Coupled Channels, R. R. Jones, S. N. Pisharody, and R. van Leeuwen
9. Optimal Quantum Control in Dissipative Environments: General Formalism and Perturbative Limits, Seogjoo Jang and Jianshu Cao
10. Manifestation of Coherence on Laser Pulse Propagation: Propagation Dynamics of Phase-Controlled Lasers, Takashi Nakajima
11. Double-Pulse Manipulation of Vibrational Wavepackets in HgAr van der Waal Complex, Y. Sato, H. Chiba, M. Nakamura, and K. Ohmori
12. Real-Time Spectroscopy of Molecular Vibration Using sub-5-fs Pulses, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Akira Shirakawa, and Takao Fuji
Intense Fields
13. Quantum Control by Adaptive Femtosecond Pulse Shaping: Application to CH[2BrCl in the Gas Phase and [Ru(dpb)[3]²]+ in the Solution Phase, Niels H. Damrauer and Gustav Gerber
14. The Mechanisms of Strong-Field Control of Chemical Reactivity Using Tailored Laser Pulses, Noel P. Moore, Getahun M. Menkir, Alexei N. Markevitch, Paul Graham, and Robert J. Levis
15. Laser-Phase Control of Dissociative Ionization of Molecules: Exact Non-Born-Oppenheimer Simulations for H[2]+, A. D. Bandrauk, J. Levesque, and S. Chelkowski
16. Molecular Restructuring in Intense IR Laser Fields, T. Tung Nguyen-Dang, H. Abou-Rachid, N. A. Nguyen, N. Mireault, and O. Atabek
17. Ultrafast Dynamics of Molecules in Intense Laser-Light Fields: New Research Directions, Kaoru Yamanouchi
18. Intense-Laser-Induced Electron Transfer and Structure Deformation of Molecules, Hirohiko Kono and Shiro Koseki
Alignment and Manipulation
19. Manipulating Molecules via Combined Electrostatic and Pulsed Nonresonant Laser Fields, Long Cai and Bretislav Freidrich
20. Prospects for All-Optical Alignment and Quantum State Control of Nonpolar Molecules, A. M. Lyyra, F. C. Spano, J. Qi, and T. Kirova
21. Alignment of Neutral Molecules by a Strong Nonresonant Linearly Polarized Laser Field, Hirofumi Sakai, Jakob Juul Larsen, C. P. Safvan, Ida Wendt-Larsen, Henrik Stapelfeldt, and Tsuneto Kanai
22. Propensity of Molecules to Spatially Align in Linearly Polarized, Intense Light Fields, D. Mathur, S. Banerjee, and G. Ravindra Kumar
Author Index
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