Laser Optics of Condensed Matter

1. Elementary Excitations and Excitation Transport

   1. Raman Scattering in High-Tc Superconductors YBa2Cu3Ox with Different Oxygen Contents

      • V. N. Denisov, A. F. Goncharov, B. N. Mavrin, V. B. Podobedov

      Pages 131-136

   2. Raman Scattering from High Temperature Superconductors

      • M. V. Klein

      Pages 137-144

   3. Decay of Exciton Gratings in Anthracene: Anisotropy of Lowest Exciton Bands and Coexistence of Longpath and Shortpath Waveguide Modes

      • V. M. Agranovich, T. A. Leskova

      Pages 145-156

   4. Excitation Transport in Polymeric Solids

      • M. D. Fayer

      Pages 157-163

   5. Vibron Lifetimes in Molecular Crystals

      • Salvatore Califano

      Pages 165-179

2. Optical Properties of Critical Phenomena Random Systems, and Coherent Phenomena

   1. Anomalies of the Elastic Light Scattering at Phase Transitions in Crystals with Point Defects

      • A. P. Levanyuk

      Pages 181-185

   2. Dynamical Fluctuations in a Dipolar Glass

      • K. B. Lyons, P. A. Fleury, H. Chou, J. Kjems, S. Shapiro, D. Rytz

      Pages 187-194

   3. Localization of Light in Random Media

      • Ad Lagendijk

      Pages 195-195

   4. Quantum Optic and Transient Effects of Excitonic Polaritons, and Properties of Phonoritons

      • Joseph L. Birman, M. Artoni, S. V. Branis, O. Martin, Bing Shen Wang

      Pages 197-203

   5. Nonclassical Field Correlations in Quantum Optics

      • H. Jeff Kimble

      Pages 205-205

   6. Phase-Conjugated Wave Enhanced by Weak Localizations of Exciton-Polaritons

      • Eiichi Hanamura

      Pages 207-216

3. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Semiconductors Organics and Fibers

   1. The Historical Relationship Between Nonlinear Optics and Condensed Matter

      • Nicolaas Bloembergen

      Pages 217-217

   2. Optical Nonlinearities Enhanced by Carrier Transport

      • Elsa Garmire

      Pages 219-227

   3. Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Optoelectronics

      • Gary C. Bjorklund

      Pages 229-229

   4. Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities of Subsurface Layers of Metals and Super- and Semiconductors Related to Electronic Structure and Crystal Symmetry

      • S. V. Govorkov, N. I. Koroteev, I. L. Shumay, V. V. Yakovlev

      Pages 231-241

   5. Second-Harmonic Generation in Optical Fibers

      • Ulf Österberg

      Pages 243-250

   6. Nonlinear Optical Probes of Glassy Polymers

      • M. G. Kuzyk, L. A. King, K. D. Singer

      Pages 251-258

4. Quantum Wells

   1. Photoluminescence of Hot Electrons and Scattering Processes in Quantum-Well Structures

      • B. P. Zakharchenya, P. S. Kop’ev, D. N. Mirlin, I. I. Reshina, V. F. Sapega, A. A. Sirenko

      Pages 259-263

   2. High Resolution Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy Measurements of Exciton Dynamics in GaAs Quantum Well Structures

      • Duncan G. Steel, Hailin Wang, Jeffrey T. Remillard, Min Jiang

      Pages 265-272

   3. Optical Spectroscopy in the Regime of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

      • A. Pinczuk, D. Heiman, B. B. Goldberg, J. P. Valladares, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West

      Pages 273-281

The Fourth USA-USSR Symposium. on The Physics of Optical Phenomena and Their Use as Probes of Matter, was held in Irvine, California, January 23-27, 1990. Participating in the Symposium were 22 scientists from the USSR and 29 from the USA. In addition, to provide an international dimension to this Symposium without, however, compromising significantly its essentially binational character, 7 non-US and non-USSR scientists were invited to take part in it. The present volume is the proceedings of that Symposium, and contains all manuscripts received prior to August 1, 1990, representing. scientific contributions presented. A few manuscripts were not received, but for completeness the corresponding abstract is printed.. Three previous USA/USSR Binational Symposia on related topics have been held, viz. "Theory of Light Scattering in Condensed Matter" (Moscow, 1975), "Light Scattering in Solids" (New York, 1979), and "Laser Optics of Condensed Matter" (Leningrad, 1987). These meetings were evaluated by the participants as highly successful and provided invaluable oppor­ tunities for researchers to exchange information and to initiate colla­ borative work which led to research visits by US physicist to Soviet laboratories, and vice versa, and which continue to the present day.

• condensed matter
• laser
• light scattering
• optics
• scattering

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Elsa Garmire

• University of California, Irvine, USA

  Alexei A. Maradudin

• Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, USSR

  Karl K. Rebane

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