We present a compact second-harmonic-generation (SHG) microscope based on a three-port single-mode fiber coupler. The fiber coupler is used to deliver a near-infrared ultrashort-pulsed laser beam as well as to collect the SHG signal in the visible wavelength range. The SHG microscope exhibits an axial resolution of 1.8 microm, which shows a slight enhancement of the optical sectioning effect co...

We report quantitative dissociation yields for the reaction CH3OH (vOH) → nhn CH31OH induced by infrared multiphoton excitation of methanol pre-excited to various levels of the OH stretching vibration (vOH50, 1, 3, 5). The yields are measured by detecting OH using laser induced fluorescence. It is demonstrated that for low levels of pre-excitation (vOH50, 1, 3) there is a substantial nonlinear ...

The fully propagated real time-dependent density functional theory method has been applied to study the laser-molecule interaction in 5- and 6-benzyluracil (5BU and 6BU). The molecular geometry optimization and the time-dependent electronic dynamics propagation were carried out using the M11-L local meta-NGA (nonseparable gradient approximations) exchange-correlation functional together with th...

We introduce photon-statistics excitation spectroscopy and exemplarily apply it to a quantum-dot micropillar laser. Both the intensity and the photon number statistics of the emission from the micropillar show a strong dependence on the photon statistics of the light used for excitation of the sample. The results under coherent and pseudothermal excitation reveal that a description of the laser...

Femtosecond-laser-written optical waveguides were monolithically integrated into a commercial lab-on-a-chip to intersect a microfluidic channel. Laser excitation through these waveguides confines the excitation window to a width of 12 μm, enabling high-spatial-resolution monitoring of different fluorescent analytes, during their migration/separation in the microfluidic channel by capillary elec...

We investigate valley exciton dynamics in MoSe2 monolayers in polarizationand time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy at 4K. Following circularly polarized laser excitation, we record a low circular polarization degree of the PL of typically ≤ 5%. This is about 10 times lower than the polarization induced under comparable conditions in MoS2 and WSe2 monolayers. The evolution of the ex...

An in situ spectroscopic study of the nanosecond laser-induced melting and size reduction of pseudospherical gold nanoparticles with 54 +/- 7 nm diameter allowed the observation of a heating efficiency that was very dependent on the excitation wavelength. A remarkably greater efficiency was observed for the photothermal effect of interband excitation than that of intraband excitation. This note...

We consider the excitation of the nuclear transition 229gTh-229mTh near 7.6 eV in singly ionized thorium via an electronic bridge process. The process relies on the excitation of the electron shell by two laser photons whose sum frequency is equal to the nuclear transition frequency. This scheme allows us to determine the nuclear transition frequency with high accuracy. Based on calculations of...

The mechanism of recombinative desorption of hydrogen from a Ru(0001) surface induced by femtosecond-laser excitation has been investigated and compared to thermally initiated desorption. For the laser-driven process, it is shown that hot substrate electrons mediate the reaction within a few hundred femtoseconds resulting in a huge isotope effect between H2 and D2 in the desorption yield. In mi...

Spectrofluorometric imaging microscopy is demonstrated in a confocal microscope using a supercontinuum laser as an excitation source and a custom-built prism spectrometer for detection. This microscope system provides confocal imaging with spectrally resolved fluorescence excitation and detection from 450 to 700 nm. The supercontinuum laser provides a broad spectrum light source and is coupled ...