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The International Workshop on Coherent Control of Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors was held May 19 to 22, 1998 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Its intent was to bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scientists to discuss recent progress, pertinent problems, and open questions in the field of coherent control in atoms, molecules, and semiconductors, in particular. Twenty-seven scientists from the physical chemistry, quantum optics, semiconductor, electrical engineering, and laser communities accepted our invitation and made this event a meeting of exciting presentations and vivid discussions. This volume contains the proceedings of this workshop. Most speakers accepted our invitation to provide a manuscript either on specific aspects of their work or a brief review of their area of research. All manuscripts were reviewed. It is hoped that they provide not merely an overview of most of the issues covered during the workshop, but also represent an account of the current state of coherent control in general. Hence, it is hoped that they are also of interest to a large number of scientists active in one of the areas listed above. The organizers of this workshop would like to thank all the participants for making this meeting a complete success. We are particularly indebted to Dr. Larry R. Cooper at the U.S. Office of Naval Research and Dr.
List of contents
I: Atomic and Molecular Systems.- Scenarios in Coherent Control.- Quantum Control in Atomic Systems.- Laser-phase-sensitive Coherent Control of Photoion Product States in 2-Photon vs. 2-Photon Ionization of Atomic Barium.- Coherent Phase control of Photoionization and Photodissociation.- Coherent Control of Atomic Photoionization and Autoionization.- Lasing Without Inversion via Interference of Double-Dark Resonances in Atomic and Quantum Well Systems.- II: Coherent Control in Semiconductors.- Coherence Control of Free Carriers in Bulk Semiconductors.- Coherent Control of 2D Excitons Probed by Time-Resolved Secondary Emission.- Many-Body Effects in the Ultrafast Population Transfer in p-Doped Semiconductor QuantumWells.- Coherent Control of Heavy-Light Hole and Phonon Quantum Beats.- Coherent Control Schemes in Semiconductor Double Wells.- Terahertz-Control of Charge-Carrier Wavepackets in Semiconductor Quantum Wells.- Microcavity Exciton-Polariton.- III: Coherent Phenomena and Related Topics.- Coherent Control of Quantum Localization.- Tunneling of Low-Energetic Electrons in the Presence of Intense Laser Fields: The Formation of Dynamical Barrier States.- Hopping Mechanism of Coherent Photovoltaic Effect and Photoinduced Polar Anisotropy in Glass.- Heterodyning Scheme Employing Quantum Interference.- Generation of Widely Tunable THz-Wave Using Nonlinear Optics.- List of Participants.
