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Preface	p. xi
Coherent Optimal Control
1. Controlling Molecular Motion: The Molecule Knows Best	p. 2
2. Variations on the Theme of Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage: Control of Chemical Reactions	p. 16
3. Laser Control of Selective Preparation of Preoriented Enantiomers from their Racemate	p. 32
4. Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Channel Phase in the Coherent Control of Molecular Processes	p. 47
5. Four-Wave Mixing and Coherent Control	p. 61
6. Control of Chemical Reactions by Using Chirped Laser Pulses	p. 81
7. Selective Excitation among Closely Lying Multilevels	p. 98
8. Laser Manipulation of Differential Autoionization Yields: Pump--Dump Control through Coupled Channels	p. 118
9. Optimal Quantum Control in Dissipative Environments: General Formalism and Perturbative Limits	p. 132
10. Manifestation fo Coherence on Laser Pulse Propagation: Propagation Dynamics of Phase-Controlled Lasers	p. 144
11. Double-Pulse Manipulation of Vibrational Wavepackets in HgAr van der Waal Complex	p. 155
12. Real-Time Spectroscopy of Molecular Vibration Using sub-5-fs Pulses	p. 171
Intense Fields
13. Quantum Control by Adaptive Femtosecond Pulse Shaping: Application to CH[subscript 2] BrCl in the Gas Phase and [Ru(dpb)[subscript 3 superscript 2+] in the Solution Phase	p. 190
14. The Mechanisms of Strong-Field Control of Chemical Reactivity Using Tailored Laser Pulses	p. 207
15. Laser-Phase Control of Dissociative Ionization of Molecules: Exact Non-Born-Oppenheimer Simulations for H[subscript 2 superscript +]	p. 221
16. Molecular Restructuring in Intense IR Laser Fields	p. 236
17. Ultrafast Dynamics of Molecules in Intense Laser-Light Fields: New Research Directions	p. 251
18. Intense-Laser-Induced Electron Transfer and Structure Deformation of Molecules	p. 267
Alignment and Manipulation
19. Manipulating Molecules via Combined Electrostatic and Pulsed Nonresonant Laser Fields	p. 286
20. Prospects for All-Optical Alignment and Quantum State Control of Nonpolar Molecules	p. 304
21. Alignment of Neutral Molecules by a Strong Nonresonant Linearly Polarized Laser Field	p. 320
22. Propensity of Molecules to Spatially Align in Linearly Polarized, Intense Light Fields	p. 336
Author Index	p. 351
Subject Index	p. 352