Springer Proceedings in Physics

I Theory and Vibrational Dynamics.- Quantum Vibrational Motion in Polyatomic Molecules from Femtoseconds to Days.- Dynamics and Spectroscopies in Four-Wave Mixing with Coherent and Incoherent Light.- Influences of Internal Rotation on Vibrational Predissociation Dynamics.- Measurement of Rotational-State Relaxation by Time-Resolved Infrared Double-Resonance Spectroscopy.- Water Molecules in Liquid Solution: Vibrational and Reorientational Relaxation.- Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics in the Liquid Phase Studied by Time-Resolved CARS.- Time-Resolved Double Raman-Raman Resonance.- Time-Domain Coherent Polarization Spectroscopy of Inhomogeneously Broadened Transitions: Theory and Experimental Possibilities.- Intermolecular Coherence and Vibrational Dephasing of BIC J-Aggregates.- Vibrational Relaxation of Hydroxyls in Zeolite Y: H-Bonding, Dipole-Dipole Coupling and Accepting Modes.- Restrictions to Homodyne Time-Resolved Techniques: Asymmetric Lineshapes of the Vibrons in ?-Arx(N2)1?x.- Dephasing of the Internal Vibrations in Ortho/Para H2 Mixed Crystals.- CARS with Femtosecond Time Resolution Using Broadband Dye Lasers.- II Progress in Instrumentation and Measurements, NLO-Techniques, Surface Phenomena.- Phonon-Polariton Transmission Through a Vacuum Layer.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Raman/Coherent-Raman Spectroscopy Using the "Pico-Pump and Quasi-CW Probe" Method with a Streak Camera.- Vibrational Dynamics of Condensed-Phase Molecules Studied by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy.- Optical Stark Shift of the Raman-Gain Spectrum in a Polydiacetylene PDA-DFMP Single Crystal.- Femtosecond Time-Resolved Raman-Gain Spectrum in a Polydiacetylene PDA-3BCMU.- Construction of a Nanosecond Time-Resolved IR Spectrometer Using a Photovoltaic MCT Detector.- Versatile Broadband CARS Spectrometer Based on a Diode-Pumped Nd:YLF Laser: Polarization-Sensitive and Time-Resolved Measurements.- III Excited States.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Raman Observation of the Mode-Dependent Vibrational Dynamics in S1 Trans-Stilbene.- Mode-Specific Effects in the Picosecond Resonance-Raman Spectra of Trans-Stilbene Solutions.- The Cis?Trans Stilbene Photoreaction Probed Through Two-Color UV Picosecond Pump-Probe Raman Spectroscopy.- Photoisomerization Studies of Cyanine Dyes by Time-Resolved Resonance CARS.- Vibrationally Hot (dd) Excited States of NiII-Porphyrins Probed by Picosecond Time-Resolved Resonance-Raman Spectroscopy.- Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy of Excited States.- Excitation Profiles of the Triplet-State Resonance-Raman Spectrum of p-Terphenyl in the Contour of the 400-480 nm Tn ?T1 Absorptions.- Mode-Specific Temperature Dependence of the Resonance-Raman Spectrum of Trans-Stilbene in the Ground State.- Singlet and Triplet (?, ?*) Excited States of Zinc(ll) Octaalkylporphyrins: A Time-Resolved Resonance-Raman Study.- Resonance-Raman Study of Intermolecular Interaction Between Electronically Excited Copper Porphyrins and Molecular Environment in Solutions.- Photochemical Reaction of Furocoumarins: Time-Resolved Absorption and Resonance-Raman Studies.- IV Chemical, Photochemical, and Photophysical Reactions.- Solvent/Solute Interactions Probed by Picosecond Transient-Raman Spectroscopy.- Dual-Track Picosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of Metal-Carbonyl Photochemistry.- Femtosecond Intramolecular Proton Transfer and Vibrational Relaxation in the Liquid Phase.- Femtosecond Raman-Induced Kerr-Effect Study of Polar Solvent Dynamics: Amides.- Spectroscopy of Charge-Transfer Dynamics: Application to Electron and Proton Self-Exchange in Solutions.- Picosecond-Resonance Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering in Biophysics: Power Dependence in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle.- Programmable Phase and Amplitude Femtosecond Pulseshaping.- Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Reaction Intermediates in Solution and Polymers.- Vibrational IR-Multiphoton Excitation of Small Sulfoxides: Time-Resolved IR-Spectroscopic Detection of Dissociation Products.- Energy-Transfer Processes in CF2HCl and CF2Cl2 at Higher Pressures.- Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of a CO2 Reductant.- Short-Wavelength Flash-Photolytic Fragmentation of Ru3(CO)12 in the Presence of CO and Complementary Experiments with Ru(CO)5: Transient IR-Spectroscopic Evidence for Ru3(CO)13.- Microsecond Time-Resolved Infrared Study of the Electric-Field-Induced Reorientation of Nematic Liquid Crystals: Collective and Non-Collective Motions of nCB.- Photoreduction of 2,2'-Bipyrimidine by Aliphatic Amines: Indirect Evidence of the Formation of a Very Short-Lived Ion Pair.- The Benzyl Radical: Resonance-Raman Spectra and Quantum-Chemical Calculations: Evidence for Vibronic Coupling.- Time-Resolved FTIR-Studies of H-Ras P21 GTPase Activity.- V Photobiology.- Vibrational Dynamics in Condensed Phases and Proteins.- A Picosecond Time-Resolved Resonance-Raman Comparison of Deoxy Hemoglobin and Carbonmonoxy Hemoglobin.- Light-Induced Reaction Sequence of the Chromophore in Bacteriorhodopsin Studied by Time-Resolved RR Spectroscopy.- Solvent Effects and Vibronic Couplings of ag-Type Stretching Vibrations in T1-Bacteriochlorophyll a and S0- and S1-Spheroidene: Environment of these Pigments in the LH2 Complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides.- Probing Low-Frequency Vibrational Motion in Bacterial Reaction Centers by Femtosecond Absorption Spectroscopy.- Picosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center.- Time-Resolved FTIR Spectroscopy of the Rebinding of Photodissociated Carboxy-Myoglobin.- Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Proton Transfer in Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria.- Laser-Induced Anisotropic Effects on Raman Intensities and Depolarization Ratios.- Excitation Transport in Helical Proteins.- Rapid Mixing Resonance-Raman Spectroscopy of Unstable ?-Cation Radical Intermediates in Heme Containing Peroxidases.- Structural and Environmental Studies of the Vitamin E (?-Tocopheroxyl) Radical Using Time-Resolved Resonance-Raman Spectroscopy.- Picosecond Resonance-Raman Spectroscopy of the Reaction Center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26.- Theoretical Model for the Study of CO Binding to Hemoproteins.- How Catalizes Azide Proton-Pumping in D96N Mutated Bacteriorhodopsin?.- The Photocycle of the Bacteriorhodopsin Mutant ASP96?ASN Studied by Time-Resolved Resonance-Raman and Optical Transient Spectroscopy.- TRS-FTIR Study of N Phosphoryl Histidine and Isopropanol Reaction System.- Protein Response to Ligation Reactions in Myoglobin.- Index of Contributors.