Photophysical processes in multichromophoric systems at the ensemble and single molecule level / T. Vosch, M. Cotlet, J. Hofkens, M. Lor, G. Schweitzer, L. Laterini, K. Müllen and F.C. De Schryver -- Single molecule spectroscopy of multichromophoric dendrimers at room and liquid helium temperatures / T. Christ, F. Kulzer, T. Weil, K. Müllen and T. Basché -- Ultrafast diffuse reflectance and Rayleigh scattering spectroscopies and their applications to TiO2 and gold nanoparticles / H. Masuhara, T. Asahi, A. Furube and T. Itoh -- Electrical conductance of directly linked porphyrin arrays / K.-H. Yoo, D.H. Yoon, N. Aratani, A. Osuka, J.K. Lim and D. Kim -- Two-photon isomerization and orientation of photochromic chromophores in polymeric thin films / H. Ishitobi, M. Maeda, Z. Sekkat and S. Kawata -- Effect of size and light power on the fluorescence yield of rubrene nanocrystals / G. Laurent, N.T. Ha-Duong, R. Méallet-Renault and R.B. Pansu -- Time-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy on nanocrystalline TiO2 and ZnO films / A. Furube, R. Katoh, T. Yoshihara, Y. Tamaki, M. Murai, K. Hara, S. Murata, H. Arakawa and M. Tachiya -- Near-field nano-Raman spectroscopy for molecular analysis and imaging / Y. Inouye, N. Hayazawa, P. Verma and S. Kawata -- Scattering probes : from 2-D to 3-D near field imaging / G. Moneron, A. Fragola, F. Formanek, L. Williame, A. Dubois, L. Aigouy, Y. de Wilde, S. Grésillon and C. Boccara -- Polarization optimized focusing of light and coupling to sub-wavelength antennae / G. Leuchs and S. Quabis -- Active and adaptive optics in confocal microscopy / T. Wilson -- Identification of surface adsorbates by scanning tunneling microscope light emission spectra / Y. Uehara and S. Ushioda -- Organic and polymer nanocrystals : their optical properties and function / H. Oikawa, A. Masuhara, H. Kasai, T. Mitsui, T. Sekiguchi and H. Nakanishi -- Preparation of phthalocyanine nanoparticles by laser ablation of its microcrystal dispersed in poor solvents / T. Asahi, Y. Tamaki, T. Sugiyama and H. Masuhara -- Novel fabrication techniques for nanostructures of functional organic molecules / H. Yoshikawa, N. Kurokawa, Y. Yokote, S. Namba and H. Masuhara -- Thin epitaxial oxide films as model systems for electrocatalysts / M.J. Montenegro, T. Lippert, S. Müller, A. Weidenkaff and A. Wokaun -- Laser micro-nanofabrication for functional photonic crystals / H.-B. Sun, S. Shoji, X.M. Duan and S. Kawata -- Femtosecond fabrication of photonic crystals inside a bulk polymer material / M.J. Ventura, G. Zhou, M. Straub and M. Gu -- Polarization characteristics of metallic photonic crystals in terahertz region / F. Miyamaru and M. Hangyo -- Giant optical transmission of nanometer-scale apertures / T. Thio -- Single molecule nano-bioscience / T. Yanagida and Y. Ishii -- Pico-newton force-measurement of biomolecular interaction using laser trapping / T. Ota, T. Sugiura and S. Kawata -- Spectral microscopy of live luminescent samples / C. Saloma, W. Oblefias and M. Soriano -- Nonlinear optical imaging and stimulation of living cells / K. Fujita, N. Smith and O. Nakamura -- Parallel translation of DNA clusters by vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array trapping / F. Sumiyama, T. Kawakami, Y. Ogura and J. Tanida -- Assembling nano/bio materials by utilizing focused laser beams / S. Ito, C. Matsubara, Y. Hosokawa, K. Ikeda, H. Mori and H. Masuhara -- Fabrication, physics, and chemistry toward organic nanophotonics / S.-J. Park, A.J. Gesquiere and P.F. Barbara -- Photonics of supramolecular nanosize structures / M.V. Alfimov.