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Contents Conference Photograph Preface Conference Information Chapter 1. Energy transfer Photocontrol on ultrafast excited state transfer processes A. Hartschuh, I.B. Ramsteiner, H. Port, J.M. Endtner, F. Effenberger Photocalorimetric study on nonradiative relaxation processes and photoluminescence quantum yields in Alq; single crystals I. Akai, K. Harai, K. Kouno, T. Karasawa J band luminescence observed with excitation below the band-gap energy on cyanine J aggregate S. Kurita, T. Honma, H. Nakamura, T. Sekiya, M. Nakajima, T. Suemoto Photo-stimulated luminescence from europium-doped rubidium barium bromide in fluorozirconate glass ceramics A. Edgar, G.V.M. Williams, G.A. Appleby Optically probing the crystalline phases of MnF, and ZnF; utilizing Sm?* defect ions K.R. Hoffman, S.V. Gastev, A.K. Kaveev, N.S. Sokolov, R.J. Reeves Luminescent decay kinetics in a quasi-one-dimensional crystal, C;H,j)NH>PblI; I. Akimoto, M. Sakai, K. Kan’no Host excitation-induced red emission from Pr** in strontium barium niobate thin film H. Liu, O. Vasquez, V.R. Santiago, L. Diaz, F.E. Fernandez, L. Liu, L. Xu, F. Gan Transient and persistent spectral hole burning in Eu* * -doped sol-gel produced SiO, glass D.M. Boye, T.S. Valdes, J.H. Nolen, A.J. Silversmith, K.S. Brewer, R.E. Anderman, R.S. Meltzer Fluorescence enhancement by chelation of Eu** and Tb** ions in sol-gels A.P. Magyar, A.J. Silversmith, K.S. Brewer, D.M. Boye Optical bleaching of Cr** luminescence in near stoichiometric LiNbO; crystals codoped with MgO T.P.J. Han, F. Jaque, L. Arizméndi, V. Bermudez, A. Suchocki x Contents Dynamical behavior of quantum cutting in alkali gadolinium fluoride phosphors H. Kondo, T. Hirai, S. Hashimoto 59 Magnetic field enhanced luminescence in ZnSe/BeMnTe multiple quantum wells with a type II band alignment A. Nakamura, N. Kato, I. Yamakawa, R. Akimoto 65 Relaxation process in anatase TiO; single crystals with different colors T. Sekiya, M. Tasaki, K. Wakabayashi, S. Kurita 69 Dichroic infrared absorption of dipole centers in cadmium halide crystals M. Terakami, H. Nakagawa, K. Fukui, H. Okamura, T. Hirono, Y. Ikemoto, T. Moriwaki, H. Kimura 75 Time-resolved photo-luminescence due to STE in T1Br doped with I” ions A. Fujii, K. Takiyama, T. Haraguchi, K. Miyazaki, M. Tabuki 81 Energy relaxation and transfer in excitonic trimer P. Herman, I. Barvik, M. Urbanec 85 Luminescence processes of hexanuclear methylpyridinethiolato-copper (1) crystals H. Xie, M. Tougezaka, S. Oishi, I. Kinoshita, K. Kanemoto, I. Akai, T. Karasawa 91 Chapter 2. Dynamics in photosynthetic systems and pigment-—protein complexes Low-temperature spectroscopy of fully active PSII cores. Comparisons with CP43, CP47, D1/D2/cyt bss9 fragments | S. Peterson Arsk6old, B.J. Prince, E. Krausz, P.J. Smith, R.J. Pace, R. Picorel, M. Seibert 97 Persistent spectral hole burning in oxygen-evolving photosystem II cores from cyanobacteria and higher plants : B.J. Prince, E. Krausz, S. Peterson Arsk6old, P.J. Smith, R.J. Pace Dual fluorescence of single LH2 antenna nanorings A. Freiberg, M. Ratsep, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas FS-study on energy relaxation in light-harvesting (LH1) complexes from Rhodospirillum rubrum with carotenoids of different conjugation length P. Gaertner, H. Port, M. Branschaedel, R. Ghosh Spectroscopic study of singlet oxygen photogeneration in meso-tetra-sulphonatophenyl-porphin R. Dédic, A. Molnar, M. Kofinek, A. Svoboda, J. PSencik, J. Hala Influence of exciton transfer on the optical cycle of a-PTCDA R. Scholz, M. Schreiber, I. Vragovic, A.Yu. Kobitski, H.P. Wagner, D.R.T. Zahn Spectrally narrowed emissions in single crystals of 2,5-bis(4-biphenylyl)thiophene K. Ishikawa, F. Sasaki, S. Kobayashi, H. Yanagi, S. Hotta, Y. Taniguchi Contents Photo-conversion of chlorophylls in higher-plant CP43 characterized by persistent spectral hole burning at 1.7K J.L. Hughes, B.J. Prince, S. Peterson Arskéld, E. Krausz, R.J. Pace, R. Picorel, M. Seibert Non-Markovian effects in the anisotropy of fluorescence in LH2 units M. Schreiber, P. Herman, I. Barvik, I. Kondov, U. Kleinekathéfer Tunable discotic building blocks for liquid crystalline displays S. Gemming, M. Schreiber, W. Thiel, T. Heine, G. Seifert, H. Avelino de Abreu, H. Anderson Duarte Photosynthetic antennae systems: energy transport and optical absorption P. Reineker, Ch. Supritz, Ch. Warns, I. Barvik Optical dephasing in red fluorescent protein F. K6nz, R. Purchase, S. Bonsma, J. Gallus, S. Volker Chapter 3. Coherent and ultrafast spectroscopy Ultrafast intraband electron dynamics of GaAs and InP observed by terahertz emission T. Hattori, S. Arai, R. Rungsawang, K. Tukamoto Ultrafast all-optical switching in a three-dimensional photonic crystal D.A. Mazurenko, A.V. Akimov, A.B. Pevtsov, D.A. Kurdyukov, V.G. Golubev, J.I. Dijkhuis Nuclear wave-packet dynamics in the localized excitons of halogen-bridged platinum complexes T. Suemoto, T. Matsuoka, J. Takeda, S. Kurita Degenerate four wave mixing spectroscopy of oxygen vibrations in amorphous silicon J.-P.R. Wells, E.D. van Hattum, P.J. Phillips, D.A. Carder, F.H.P.M. Habraken, J.I. Dijkhuis Quantum beats in semiconductor quantum dots Y. Masumoto, I.V. Ignatiev, K. Nishibayashi, T. Okuno, S.Yu. Verbin, I.A. Yugova Binding energy and dynamics of Be acceptor levels in AlAs/GaAs multiple quantum wells M.P. Halsall, W.-M. Zheng, P. Harrison, J.-P.R. Wells, M.J. Steer, E.E. Orlova Photoinduced melting of the orbital order in a perovskite-type vanadate LaVO; S. Tomimoto, S. Miyasaka, T. Ogasawara, H. Okamoto, Y. Tokura Exciton-exciton interaction in an inorganic—organic layered semiconductor, (CeH;C2H4NH3)2PblI4 M. Shimizu, J. Fujisawa Enhancement of coherent LO phonons by quantum beats of excitons in GaAs/AIAs multiple quantum wells O. Kojima, K. Mizoguchi, M. Nakayama Transient reflectivity changes of B-ZnP. exciton bands by pump-probe spectroscopy using a femtosecond laser O. Arimoto, Y. Imai, S. Nakanishi, H. Itoh Xil Contents Probing phase relaxation by measuring fluorescence interference: polarization beating and electron— phonon coupling in conjugated polymers F. Milota, J. Sperling, A. Tortschanoff, V. Sz6cs, L. Kuna, H.F. Kauffmann Multi-wave-mixing of two-dimensional excitons in semiconductors A. Hasegawa, T. Kishimoto, Y. Mitsumori, M. Sasaki, F. Minami Theory of active dephasing control in qubit arrays M. Sasaki, A. Hasegawa, Y. Mitsumori, F. Minami Vibrational linewidths and dephasing of H” local modes in disordered calcium fluoride G.D. Jones, J.-P.R. Wells Chapter 4. Photoinduced phase transitions and quantum optics Critical behavior of a photo-disordered spin system in epitaxial CrO, films T. Yoshii, Y. Hamanaka, Y. Moritomo, A. Nakamura Dynamical phase transition under photo-excitation in a spin-crossover complex Y. Moritomo, Y. Isobe, X.J. Liu, T. Kawamoto, A. Nakamoto, N. Kojima, K. Kato, M. Takata Excited state dynamics and semiconductor-to-metallic phase transition of VO, thin film H. Liu, O. Vasquez, V.R. Santiago, L. Diaz, F.E. Fernandez Anisotropy of inter-exciton interaction and pattern formation dynamics in photoinduced structural phase transitions R. Yabuki, K. Nasu Photoinduced intramolecular proton transfer in 2- and 4-(2,4-dinitrobenzyl)pyridine J. Takeda, A. Nashiro, S. Kurita Photon virtual bound state J. Inoue, K. Ohtaka Large pulse distortion in a 3D photonic crystal J. Nakagawa, H. Kitano, F. Minami, T. Sawada, S. Yamaguchi, K. Ohtaka Optical selection rule for hyper-Rayleigh scattering in resonance with exciton states in ZnSe Y. Mitsumori, Y. Ohkubo, A. Hasegawa, M. Sasaki, F. Minami Theory of phase-separation dynamics in high-density electron-hole systems T. Ogawa, A. Ishikawa Universal parameter at the Anderson transition on a one-dimensional lattice with non-random long-range coupling A.V. Malyshev, V.A. Malyshev, F. Dominguez-Adame, A. Rodriguez Chapter 5. Electron—phonon interaction and photon dynamics Phonon bottleneck effects in InAs/GaInP quantum dots K. Ikeda, H. Sekiguchi, F. Minami, J. Yoshino, Y. Mitsumori, H. Amanai, S. Nagao, S. Sakaki Contents Ultrafast relaxation within excited doublet 7E state of 3d* ions in ferroelectric Li,Ge7O0;; crystals S.P. Feofilov, A.A. Kaplyanskii, A.B. Kulinkin The 29-cm~! ruby phonon detector as a probe for ultrashort strain solitons O.L. Muskens, S. Purushothaman, A.V. Akimov, J.I. Dijkhuis Ultrafast dynamics of lattice relaxed states in quasi-one-dimensional MX-chain compounds Y. Wada, N. Matsushita, H. Haneda Coherent longitudinal acoustic phonons in pyrite M. Kasami, T. Mishina, S. Yamamoto, J. Nakahara Ultrashort strain soliton formation in sapphire and ruby O.L. Muskens, J.I. Dijkhuis Chapter 6. Spectroscopy Locating lanthanide impurity levels in the forbidden band of host crystals P. Dorenbos Optical, infrared and EPR spectroscopy of CaF :Ce** crystals co-doped with Li* or Na* M. Yamaga, S. Yabashi, Y. Masui, M. Honda, H. Takahashi, M. Sakai, N. Sarukura, J.-P.R. Wells, G.D. Jones Investigation on the valence of Cr ions in LiAlO, M. Yamaga, J.-P.R. Wells, M. Honda, T.P.J. Han, B. Henderson Fine structure of V7~ energy levels in CsCaF3:V~* C.N. Avram, M.G. Brik Chapter 7. Spectroscopy of nanoscale structures Resonant SHG for excitons weakly confined in a slab and its cavity-enhancement effect Y. Ono, K. Cho Hole confinement and dynamics in 6-doped Ge quantum dots M.P. Halsall, A.D.F. Dunbar, Y. Shiraki, M. Miura, J.-P.R. Wells Optical absorption and energy transfer processes in dendrimers P. Reineker, A. Engelmann, V.I. Yudson Long-lifetime luminescence of lanthanide-doped gadolinium oxide nanoparticles for immunoassays W.O. Gordon, J.A. Carter, B.M. Tissue Anomalous mode structure of a radiation—exciton coupled system beyond the long-wavelength approximation regime H. Ishihara, J. Kishimoto, K. Sugihara Spectroscopy of single silicon nanoparticles J. Martin, F. Cichos, C. von Borczyskowski XIV Contents Radiation force induced by resonant light: from atom to nanoparticle T. lida, H. Ishihara 351 Up-converted emission of colloidal nanocrystals containing dendrimers K. Dou, Z. Xu, X.J. Wang, A. Apblett, T. Collins 355 Scintillation activated by nanoparticle formation in CsI:Na thin films M. Nakayama, N. Ando, J. Hirai, H. Nishimura 359 Ultrafast nonlinear optical response in silica-capped gold nanoparticle films Y. Hamanaka, K. Fukuta, A. Nakamura, L.M. Liz-Marzan, P. Mulvaney 365 Infrared transient absorption and excited-states of excitons and biexcitons confined in CuCl quantum dots K. Miyajima, K. Edamatsu, T. Itoh 371 Acoustical phonon broadening of the exciton line in semiconductor single quantum dots K. Ikeda, F. Minami, S. Kuroda, K. Takita, N. Koguchi Confined electronic structure in GaAs quantum dots M. Yamagiwa, N. Sumita, F. Minami, N. Koguchi Room-temperature excitonic lasing from ZnO single nanobelts K. Bando, T. Sawabe, K. Asaka, Y. Masumoto Photoluminescence and ultra-fast decay profiles of rare-earth (III) ion-doped semiconductor nanocrystals encapsulated in silica nanotube AMCM-41/Cd,Zn,_,S: Eu°*, Tb** M. Morita, T. Ishii, M. Baba, D. Rau, M. Iwamura, H. Kuroda Up-converted emission in Pr? * -doped fluoride nanocrystals-based oxyfluoride glass ceramics H. Zheng, X. Wang, M.J. Dejneka, W.M. Yen, R.S. Meltzer Fluorescence and X-ray detected reversible switching of photochromic nanostructures S. Rath, M. Heilig, E. Al-Khalisy, T. Klingler, H. Port List of Contributors Subject Index Materials Index CO NTE NTS This journal is part of ContentsDirect, the free alerting service which sends tables of contents by e-mail for Elsevier books and journals. You can register for ContentsDirect online @ at: http: //contentsdirect.elsevier.com