| Preface |
| Probing Orbital Symmetries and Ionization Dynamics of Simple Molecules With Femtosecond Laser Pulses / C. D. Lin ; X. M. Tong1： |
| Generalization and Application to Molecular Systems of Keldysh's Atomic Photoionization Theory / K. Mishima ; K. Nagaya ; M. Hayashi ; S. H. Lin ; E. W. Schlag2： |
| Ionization and Fragmentation of Some Organic Molecules with Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses / Nobuaki Nakashima ; Tomoyuki Yatsuhashi ; Masanao Murakami ; Ryuji Mizoguchi ; Yoshinori Shimada3： |
| Nonlinear Optics for Characterizing XUV/Soft X-ray High-order Harmonic Fields in Attosecond Regime / Yasuo Nabekawa ; Katsumi Midorikawa |
| Introduction |
| Nonlinear phenomena in XUV/soft X-ray region for ultrafast optics / 1.1： |
| Autocorrelation measurement / 1.2： |
| Generation of Intense Harmonic Fields |
| Single atom response / 2.1： |
| Propagation of the harmonic fields with pumping laser field: Phase matching / 2.2： |
| Development of intense high-order harmonic generator / 2.3： |
| Two-Photon Double Ionization |
| Measurement of Attosecond Pulse Train with Two-Photon ATI / 4： |
| Interferometric Autocorrelation of APT with Two-Photon Coulomb Explosion / 5： |
| Similarity of APT with mode-locked laser pulses / 5.1： |
| Why do we need interferometric autocorrelation? / 5.2： |
| Two-photon Coulomb explosion / 5.3： |
| Interferometric autocorrelation / 5.4： |
| Summary and Prospects / 6： |
| Acknowledgements |
| References |
| Signatures of Molecular Structure and Dynamics in High-Order Harmonic Generation / Manfred Lein ; Ciprian C. Chirila |
| Theory of High-Order Harmonic Generation |
| Basic theory |
| Three-step model |
| The strong-field approximation |
| Odd and even harmonics / 2.4： |
| Influence of Molecular Structure on HHG |
| Ionization step / 3.1： |
| Recombination step / 3.2： |
| Dynamical Effects |
| Conclusions |
| Acknowledgments |
| Molecular Manipulation Techniques and Their Applications / Hirofumi Sakai |
| Theoretical Background |
| Molecular Orientation with Combined Electrostatic and Intense, Nonresonant Laser Fields |
| One-dimensional molecular orientation |
| Three-dimensional molecular orientation |
| Applications with a Sample of Aligned Molecules |
| Optimal control of multiphoton ionization processes in aligned I[subscript 2] molecules with time-dependent polarization pulses / 4.1： |
| High-order harmonic generation from aligned molecules / 4.2： |
| Summary and Outlook |
| Sum Frequency Generation: An Introduction with Recent Developments and Current Issues / Mary Jane Shultz |
| Electric Fields and Orientation Factors |
| Fresnel factors and propagation direction |
| Orientation factors |
| Simplification of the orientation tensor / 2.2.1： |
| Observed intensity |
| Molecular examples / 2.3.1： |
| Recent Developments |
| Absolute orientation determination with a reference |
| Orthogonal resonances |
| Null angle / 3.3： |
| Visible angle null, VAN / 3.3.1： |
| Polarization angle null, PAN / 3.3.2： |
| Connection with previous work / 3.3.3： |
| Example / 3.3.4： |
| Current Issues in Sum Frequency Generation |
| Interfacial optical constants and bulk contributions |
| Collective modes - a theoretical challenge |
| Probe depth / 4.3： |
| Nanoparticle SFG / 4.4： |
| Time resolution / 4.5： |
| Surface 2D imaging / 4.6： |
| Selected Results |
| Ions at aqueous surfaces: The case for surface H[subscript 3]O[superscript +] |
| Interactions at nanostructured interfaces |
| Summary |
| Appendix A |
| Tensor product / A.1： |
| Propagation and Intramolecular Coupling Effects in the Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy / Jose Luis PazA.2： |
| Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy |
| Study and characterization of FWM signal in the frequency space |
| Effects of solute concentration, field intensity, and spectral inhomogeneous broadening on FWM |
| Propagation effects |
| Topological studies for the FWM signal surfaces / 2.2.2： |
| Spectra in the frequency space / 2.2.3： |
| Approximation levels for the study of the propagation in FWM |
| Intramolecular Coupling |
| Molecular models |
| Theoretical characteristics of the model |
| Signal response |
| Results and discussion / 3.4： |
| Final Remarks |
| Control of Molecular Chirality by Lasers / Kunihito Hoki ; Yuichi Fujimura |
| Fundamental Issues in Laser Control of Molecular Chirality |
| Laser control of an ensemble of racemic mixtures |
| Photon polarizations of lasers |
| Density matrix treatment of a racemic mixture |
| Control Scenarios |
| Pump-dump control via an electronic excited state |
| Control of molecular chirality in a randomly oriented racemic mixture using three polarization components of electric fields |
| Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage method |
| Sequential pump-dump control of chirality transformation competing with photodissociation in an electronic excited state |
| Preface |
| Probing Orbital Symmetries and Ionization Dynamics of Simple Molecules With Femtosecond Laser Pulses / C. D. Lin ; X. M. Tong1： |
| Generalization and Application to Molecular Systems of Keldysh's Atomic Photoionization Theory / K. Mishima ; K. Nagaya ; M. Hayashi ; S. H. Lin ; E. W. Schlag2： |
| Ionization and Fragmentation of Some Organic Molecules with Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses / Nobuaki Nakashima ; Tomoyuki Yatsuhashi ; Masanao Murakami ; Ryuji Mizoguchi ; Yoshinori Shimada3： |
| Nonlinear Optics for Characterizing XUV/Soft X-ray High-order Harmonic Fields in Attosecond Regime / Yasuo Nabekawa ; Katsumi Midorikawa |
| Introduction |
