The time dependence of the carrier relaxation in undoped solid C$\sb{60}$ thin films has been studied by monitoring changes in the optical transmission upon photoexcitation using sub picosecond laser pulses at 2 eV. Optical ...

A model for simulation of laser produced plasmas that couples absorbed energy, plasma dynamics and radiation pressure was developed. The unusual experimental result of spectral narrowing of reflected laser pulses was ...

A number of different methods for electrically characterizing ZnSe thin films are presented. These include the Hall effect, current-voltage profiling, and capacitance-voltage profiling. The planar Schottky technique is ...

Focusing effects on phase front curvature are important in determining the band-width generated in the near vacuum ultraviolet by sum frequency mixing of ultrashort pulses. Noncollinear sum frequency mixing is utilized to ...