Exploring the World with the Laser: Dedicated to Theodor Hänsch on his 75th birthday

From quantum transitions to electronic motions (Mandy Singh, MPI Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany).-
Nonadiabatic molecular alignment of linear molecules probed by photoelectron ionization yields (Hans Schüssler, Texas A&M Univ, USA).-
Ultracold metastable helium: Ramsey fringes and atom interferometry (Wim Vassen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).-
Monolayer graphene as dissipative membrane in an optical resonator (Michael Köhl, Univ Cambridge , UK / Univ Bonn, Germany).-
Cavity ring-up spectroscopy for dissipative and dispersive sensing in a whispering gallery mode resonator (Síle Nic Chormaic, Okinawa Univ, Japan).-
Quantum electrodynamics, high-resolution spectroscopy, and fundamental constants (Savely G. Karshenboim, Mendeleev Institute for Metrology, Russia).-
Yb fiber amplifier at 972.5 nm with frequency quadrupling to 243.1 nm (Cory Rasor, Colorado Univ, USA).-
Absorption spectroscopy of xenon and ethylene-noble gas mixtures at high pressure: Towards Bose-Einstein condensation of vacuum ultraviolet photons (Christian Wahl, Univ Bonn, Germany).-
Ranging with frequency-shifted feedback lasers: from $\mu$m-range accuracy to MHz-range measurement rate (Leonid Yatsenko, Nat. Acad. Sc. Ukraine / Kiew Univ, Ukraine).-
Laser phase spectroscopy in closed-loop multilevel schemes (Ennio Arimondo, Univ Pisa, Italy).- Sensitivity and resolution in frequency comb spectroscopy of buffer gas cooled polyatomic molecules (Bryan Changala, Nat. Inst. of Standards (NIST) / Colorado Univ, USA).-
Precision measurements and test of molecular theory in highly-excited vibrational states of H_2 _(v=11) (Edcel Salumbides, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).-
Quantum regime of a free-electron laser: relativistic approach (Peter Kling, Helmholtz-Center, Dresden, Germany).-
Coherence in laser-driven electrons at and in solid matter (Peter Hommelhoff, Univ Erlangen, Germany).-
Unexpectedly large difference of the electron density at the nucleus in the 4p 2P1/2,3/2 fine-structure doublet of Ca+ (Piet O. Schmidt, Inst. Experiment. Quantum Metrology, PTB, Braunschweig, Germany).-
A 10^15 watt laser for DT Fusion Experiments at Livermore (John F. Holzrichter, Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab / Stanford Univ, USA).-

Extraction of enhanced, ultrashort laser pulses from a passive 10-MHz stack-and-dump cavity (Sven Breitkopf, Univ Jena, Germany).-
Adjacency Graphs and Long-Range Interactions of Atoms in Quasi-Degenerate States: Applied Graph Theory (Ulrich Jentschura, Missouri Univ, USA).-
External Cavity Diode Laser Setup with Two Interference Filters (Patrick Baus. Univ Darmstadt, Germany).-
Phase-stable, multi-µJ femtosecond pulses from a repetition-rate tuneable Ti:Sa-oscillator-seeded Yb-fiber amplifier (Tobias Saule, Munich Univ (LMU), Germany).-
High-precision spectroscopy of the HD+ molecule at the 1-p.p.b. level (Jeroen Koelemeij, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).-
Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical cavity with sub-recoil bandwidth (Andreas Hemmerich, Univ Hamburg, Germany).-
Ultrafast optomechanical pulse picking (Nikolai Lilienfein, Munich Univ (LMU), Germany).-
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 (Takatoshi Aoki, Univ Tokio, Japan).-
High-accuracy deep-UV Ramsey-comb spectroscopy in krypton (Robert Karl Altmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands).-
Optical Autler-Townes spectroscopy in a heteronuclear mixture of laser-cooled atoms (Axel Görlitz, Univ Düsseldorf, Germany).-
A compact echelle spectrograph for characterization of astro-combs (Rafael Andreas Probst, MPI Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany).-
Measuring and imaging nanomechanical motion with laser light (Albert Schliesser, Copenhagen Univ, Denmark).-
Shifting the phase of a coherent beam with a Yb-174 ion: influence of the scattering cross section (Markus Sondermann, MPI Science of Light, Erlangen).-
Orientational dependence of optically detected magnetic resonance signals in laser-driven atomic magnetometers (Simone Colombo, Univ Fribourg, Switzerland).-
T^3-interferometer for atoms (Maxim Efremov, Inst. Quantum Physics, Ulm Univ, Germany).-
Playing tricks to ions (Dietrich Leibfried, Nat. Inst. of Standards (NIST) / Colorado Univ, USA).-
Frequency-comb based collinear laser spectroscopy of Be for nuclear structure investigations and many-body QED tests (Wilfried Nörtershäuser, Univ Darmstadt, Germany).-
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