Pulse-shaping assisted multidimensional coherent electronic spectroscopy

Manipulating multidimensional electronic spectra of excitons by polarization pulse shaping.

A simulation study demonstrates how coherent control, combined with adaptive polarization pulse shaping and a genetic algorithm, may be used to simplify femtosecond coherent nonlinear optical signals of excitons. Cross peaks are amplified and resolved, and diagonal peaks are suppressed in the heterodyne-detected two-pulse echo signal from the Soret band of a porphyrin dimer coupled to a Brownia...

Optical multidimensional coherent SPECTROSCOPY

Coherent multidimensional optical spectroscopy.

Multidimensional optical techniques, the focus of this special issue, are analogues of their NMR counterparts; that is, rather than using spin transitions as little spies within a molecule, we use vibrational or optical transitions. Similar to NMR, the spectroscopic states often respond in a very sensitive way to their chemical environment. By modeling the coupling of one of these states to eit...

Coherent Fourier transform electrical pulse shaping.

Fourier synthesis pulse shaping methods allowing generation of programmable, user defined femtosecond optical waveforms have been widely applied in ultrafast optical science and technology. In the electrical domain, arbitrary waveform generation is well established at frequencies below approximately 1 GHz, but is difficult at higher frequencies due to limitations in digital-to-analog converter ...

Optical pulse shaping using optical coherent transients.

Using multiple temporally-overlapped, frequency offset and phase-tuned, linear frequency chirps, a new method of multi-GHz optical coherent transient optical pulse shaping and processing in inhomogeneously broadened rare-earth doped crystals is proposed. Using this technique with properly chirped laser sources, multi-GHz processing can be controlled with conventional low-bandwidth electronics a...