This book summarizes several years of research carried out by a collaboration of many groups on ultrafast photochemical reactions. It emphasizes the analysis and characterization of the nuclear dynamics within molecular systems in various environments induced by optical excitations and the study of the resulting molecular dynamics by further interaction with an optical field.

InhaltsangabeAnalysis and control of small isolated molecular systems.- Complex systems in the gas phase.- Coherence and control of molecular dynamics in rare gas matrices.- Ultrafast dynamics of photoinduced processes at surfaces and interfaces.- Molecules and clusters in strong laser fields.- Vibrational dynamics of hydrogen bonds.- Observing molecular structure changes and dynamics in polar solution.- Biological systems: Applications and perspectives.