Journal article
Coherent nonlinear spectroscopy: from femtosecond dynamics to control
Department of Chemistry and Center for Fundamental Materials Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. dantus@msu.edu1
This review focuses on the study of the dynamics of isolated molecules and their control using coherent nonlinear spectroscopic methods. Emphasis is placed on topics such as bound-to-free excitation and the study of concerted elimination reactions, free-to-bound excitation and the study of bimolecular reactions, and bound-to-bound excitation and the study of intramolecular rovibrational dynamics and coherence relaxation.
For each case the detailed time-resolved information reveals possible strategies to control the outcome. Experimental results are shown for each of the reactions discussed. The methods discussed include pump-probe and four-wave mixing processes such as transient grating and photon echo spectroscopy.
Off-resonance transient-grating experiments are shown to be ideal for the study of ground state dynamics, molecular structure, and the molecular response to strong field excitation.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Annual Reviews |
Year: | 2001 |
Pages: | 639-679 |
ISSN: | 15451593 and 0066426x |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1146/annurev.physchem.52.1.639 |