Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy

- Investigating physical systems with optical spectroscopy

- Light-matter interactions on the femto-second time scale

- Photons and photon statistics from incandescent light to lasers carrier-wave nonlinear optics

- Carotenoid excited states-photophysics, ultrafast dynamics and photosynthetic functions

- Spectroscopy of quantum wells and superlattices

- Lasers for frontier spectroscopy

- Coherent spectroscopy of stratified semiconductor micro- and nanostructures

- Consequences of extreme photon confinement in micro-cavities

- Luminescence properties of very small semiconductor particles

- An introduction to the physics of ultracold atomic gases

- Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms to ultralow temperatures

- Trafast structural dynamics in the condensed phase

- Lanthanide series spectroscopy under extreme conditions

- Excitonic Bose-Einstein condensation versus electron-hole plasma formation

- Dynamics of solid-state coherent light sources

- Some aspects of intramolecular electronic energy transfer processes

- Stimulated raman scattering spectroscopy of frontier nonlinear-laser materials: organic crystals and nanocrystalline ceramics

- Strange properties of quantum systems and possible interpretations

- Modulation spectroscopy revisited

- Advances in solid state lasers at Nasa Langley Resarch Center

- Combinatorial chemistry to grow single crystals and analysis of concentration quenching processes

- Table-top soft x-ray lasers and their applications

- Rare earth ion doped ceramic laser materials