Section I: Fractals in Disordered Media -- Fractal Image Encoding -- Transport and Reactions in Disordered Media -- Fractal-Like Exciton Kinetics in Porous Glasses, Membranes and Powders -- Reaction Kinetics on Fractal and Euclidean Structures with Energetic Disorder: Random Walk Simulations -- Section II: Spectral Hole-Burning -- Dynamical Hole-Burning Requirements for Frequency Domain Optical Storage -- Zero-Phonon Lines, Photoburning of Spectral Holes, Information Storage, Photon Echo and Solid Systems -- Evolution of Spectral Holes on Logarithmic Time Scales -- Section III: Exciton Transport: Experiment and Theory -- Exciton Transport in Naphthalene-Doped Poly (Methylmeth-acrylate): Spatial and Energetic Disorder -- Excitation Transport Kinetics in Vapor Deposited Naphthalene -- Response of an Insulating Material to Photoexcitation -- Exciton Transport in Mixed Crystals: Quantum Percolation -- Section IV: Electron Transfer in Disordered Media -- On Electron Transfer Reactions in Disordered Media -- Time-Resolved Dielectric Loss as a Probe of Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics -- Section V: Energy Transfer in Organic Solids -- Charge Transfer in Polypyrrole and Electrochromism of Prussian Blue -- Energy Transfer in Doped Polymer Films -- Vibrational Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonded Solids: Phonons and Optical Damage -- Section VI: Silica Glasses -- An Integrated Fractal Analysis of Silica: Electronic Energy Transfer, Small-Angle X-Ray-Scattering and Adsorption -- Structural Changes and Oscillations During the Sol-Gel Transition in Silica Gel Glass as Probed by Pyrene Excimerization -- Organic Molecule, 1,4-Dihydroxy-9, 10-Anthraquinone, Doped Amorphous Silica Prepared by Sol-Gel Method and its Structures Studied by Photochemical Hole Burning -- Isolation and Trapping of Organic Photoactive Molecules in Silica Glass Matrices at Room Temperature -- Section VII: Carrier Dynamics in Amorphous Semiconductors -- Optical Modulation Spectroscopy of Native Defects in Amorphous Semiconducting and Conducting Polymers -- Microstripline Transient Photocurrents: A Probe of Carrier Thermalization and Band-Tail Densities in Amorphous Semiconductors -- Picosecond Decay of Photoinduced Absorption in Hydro-genated Amorphous Silicon -- Picosecond Transient Grating Experiments on Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon: A Model for Surface Quenching -- Section VIII: Devices and Applications -- Langmuir-Blodgett Electronic Devices -- High-Resolution Photorefractive Polymers for Integrated Optics -- Solar Energy Conversion by Means of Parametric Mechanisms -- Author Index.