I. Interactions in Liquids and Molecules.- Dynamic Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules with Tunable Picosecond Pulses.- A New Technique for Measurement of Raman Dephasing Dynamics and Recent Advances in cw Mode-Locked Dye Lasers.- Picosecond Vibrational and Electronic Relaxation Processes in Molecules.- The Excited State Absorption Kinetics of Quinoxaline in Room Temperature Solution.- A Novel Technique for Monitoring Transient Optical Phenomena on a Picosecond Time Scale.- Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Subpicosecond States in Liquids.- Picosecond Laser Studies of Electron-Hole Interactions and Double Proton Transfer.- Polydiacetylenes, A Promising Material for Nonlinear Optics with Picosecond Pulses.- Short Pulse Absorption Spectroscopy of Nitromethane Photolysis.- II. Poster Session.- Singlet Exciton Interactions in Crystalline Naphthalene.- Intramolecular Lineshape Narrowing in the Overtone Spectrum of Benzene.- Kinetics of the Sensitized Fluorescence of Anthracene-Doped Naphthalene Following Two-Photon Picosecond-Pulse Excitation.- Picosecond Gain Kinetics of 1,4-Bis (2-Methylstyryl) Benzene.- Evidence for Nearly Transform-Limited Pulses from a Short Cavity Blue Dye Laser.- Applications of the Mode Locked Near UV Output from a Krypton Ion Laser in Chemical Analysis.- Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Rhodamine Dyes.- III. Sources and Techniques.- Anti-Stokes Emission as a VUV and Soft X-Ray Source.- Picosecond Phase Shift Measurements at 358 MHz Using Synchrotron Radiation.- High Power, Nearly Band-width Limited, Tunable Picosecond Pulses in the Visible and Infrared.- Sub-Picosecond Optical Gating and Wavefront Conjugation.- Parametric Study of Double Mode-Locking of the cw Dye Laser.- Subpicosecond Spectroscopy.- Synchronized Ultra-Short Pulse Generation and Streak-camera Measurement with cw Mode-Locked Lasers.- Picosecond Pulse Generation with a cw GaAlAs Laser Diode.- Investigation of the Parameters Affecting Subpicosecond Pulse Durations in Passively Mode Locked Dye Lasers.- Measurements of Polarization Relaxation in Materials Using Synchronously Mode-Locked Dye Lasers.- IV. Biological Processes.- Picosecond Studies of Electron Transfer in Bacterial Photosynthesis and in Model Systems.- Primary Photosynthesis Selectively Excited by Tunable Picosecond Parametric Oscillator.- Light Collection and Exciton Dynamics in Photosynthetic Membranes.- Fluorescence and Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis.- Picosecond Research of Some Biomolecules (Bacteriorhodopsin, Bacteriochlorophyll and Bases of DNA).- The Use of Resonant Light Scattering as a Probe of Picosecond and Subpicosecond Relaxation and Dephasing Times in the Excited State.- V. Poster Session.- Picosecond Optical Absorption at 1.06 ?m and 1.55 ?m in Thin Germanium Samples at High Optically-Created Carrier Densities.- Advantages of Planar Streak Camera in Picosecond Recording.- Design for Ultrafast Electrical Switching.- Small Area Metal-Oxide-Metal Junctions as Picosecond Photoemissive Detectors.- VI. Coherent Techniques and Molecules.- Picosecond Coherent Transients in Molecular Mixed Crystals.- Nonlinear Optical Techniques for Probing Dephasing of Molecules and Excitons: Nano and Picosecond Dynamics.- Optical Coherent Transients by Laser Frequency Switching: Subnanosecond Studies.- Rise in Time of dc Electric-Field Induced Optical Rectification and Second Harmonic Generation in Liquids.- Picosecond Molecular Dynamics in Liquids and Electron Localization.- Collisionless Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation in SF6.- Resonant Rayleigh-Type Mixing Spectroscopy Using a Picosecond Dye Laser System.- VII. Solids.- Picosecond Luminescence Spectroscopy of Highly Photo-Excited Semiconductors.- Picosecond Absorption Spectroscopy of Direct Semiconductors.- Fast Laser Excitations in VO2 at the Semiconducting-Metallic Phase Transition.- Energy Transport in Molecular Solids: Application of the Picosecond Transient Grating Technique.- Ultrafast Processes in the Optical Response of an Electron-Hole Plasma in Germanium.- Time-Resolved Induced Absorption Due to Exciton-Biexciton Transitions in CuCl.- Broadly Tunable, Repetitive Picosecond Laser System and Its Application to Spectroscopy.- Dynamic Emission Spectroscopy Under Resonant Two Photon Absorption in Cucl and CuBr.- VIII. High-Power Lasers and Plasmas.- Saturation Effects in Fifth Harmonic Generation of Coherent XUV Radiation.- Picosecond Diagnostics of CO2 Laser Produced Plasmas.- The Regenerative Amplifier: A Source for Synchronized, Variable-Duration Pulses.- Resonant Multiphoton Ionization of Cesium Atoms by Ultrashort Laser Pulses at 1.06 ym.- Intense Picosecond Electrostatic Fields in Laser Generated Plasma.- Picosecond Interferometry of Laser Fusion Targets.- Development of an Actively Modelocked and Q-Switched Oscillator for Laser Fusion Program at LLL..- Generation and Amplification of Short 10 ?m Pulses.- IX. Postdeadline Papers.- Measurement of Singlet Lifetimes by Upper State Fluorescence Excitation.- Picosecond Studies of Excited State Proton Transfer Reactions: The Laser pH Jump.- Measurement of Surface Recombination Velocity in Semiconductors by Diffraction from Picosecond Transient Free Carrier Gratings.- On the Excited State Energy Surface of Rhodopsin and Bacteriorhodopsin.- Picosecond Self-Induced Transparency and Photon Echoes in Sodium Vapor.- Picosecond Spectroscopic Study on Excimer Formation in Solution and in Crystalline Phase.- Characterization and Application of a Combined Picosecond Streak Camera, Silicon-Intensified-Target Vidicon, and Image Analyzer System.- List of Participants.
