Exploring the World with the Laser

From quantum transitions to electronic motions. - Nonadiabatic molecular alignment of linear molecules probed by photoelectron ionization yields. - Ultracold metastable helium: Ramsey fringes and atom interferometry. - Monolayer graphene as dissipative membrane in an optical resonator. - Cavity ring-up spectroscopy for dissipative and dispersive sensing in a whispering gallery mode resonator. - Quantum electrodynamics, high-resolution spectroscopy, and fundamental constants. - Yb fiber amplifier at 972. 5 nm with frequency quadrupling to 243. 1 nm. - Absorption spectroscopy of xenon and ethylene-noble gas mixtures at high pressure: Towards Bose-Einstein condensation of vacuum ultraviolet photons. - Ranging with frequency-shifted feedback lasers: from $\mu$m-range accuracy to MHz-range measurement rate. - Laser phase spectroscopy in closed-loop multilevel schemes. - Sensitivity and resolution in frequency comb spectroscopy of buffer gas cooled polyatomic molecules. - Precision measurements and test of molecular theory in highly-excited vibrational states of H_2 _(v=11). - Quantum regime of a free-electron laser: relativistic approach. - Coherence in laser-driven electrons at and in solid matter. - Unexpectedly large difference of the electron density at the nucleus in the 4p 2P1/2, 3/2 fine-structure doublet of Ca+. - A 10^15 watt laser for DT Fusion Experiments at Livermore. - New avenues for matter-wave enhanced spectroscopy. - Extraction of enhanced, ultrashort laser pulses from a passive 10-MHz stack-and-dump cavity. - Adjacency Graphs and Long-Range Interactions of Atoms in Quasi-Degenerate States: Applied Graph Theory. - External Cavity Diode Laser Setup with Two Interference Filters. - Phase-stable, multi-µJ femtosecond pulses from a repetition-rate tuneable Ti:Sa-oscillator-seeded Yb-fiber amplifier. - High-precision spectroscopy of the HD+ molecule at the 1-p. p. b. level. - Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical cavity with sub-recoil bandwidth. - Ultrafast optomechanical pulse picking. - Parity-nonconserving interaction induced light shifts in the 7S_{1/2} - 6D_{3/2} transition of the ultracold Fr-210 atoms to probe new physics beyond the standard model. - High-accuracy deep-UV Ramsey-comb spectroscopy in krypton. - Optical Autler-Townes spectroscopy in a heteronuclear mixture of laser-cooled atoms. - A compact echelle spectrograph for characterization of astro-combs. - Measuring and imaging nanomechanical motion with laser light. - Shifting the phase of a coherent beam with a Yb-174 ion: influence of the scattering cross section. - Orientational dependence of optically detected magnetic resonance signals in laser-driven atomic magnetometers. - ^nd many-body QED tests. - Index.