• DocumentCode
    1826370
  • Title

    Bimolecular chemistry with shaped ultrafast laser pulses

  • Author

    Weinacht, T.C. ; Bartels, R.A. ; Kapteyn, H.C. ; Murnane, M.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Joint Inst. for Lab. Astrophys., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    11-11 May 2001
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate control over a bimolecular chemical reaction with shaped ultrafast laser pulses for the first time. A nontrivial pulse shape dependence of the reaction rate is discovered inside a closed loop optimization procedure.
  • Keywords
    Raman spectra; biochemistry; chemical reactions; high-speed optical techniques; optimisation; reaction rate constants; vibrational states; bimolecular chemical reaction; bimolecular chemistry; closed loop optimization procedure; nontrivial pulse shape dependence; reaction rate; shaped ultrafast laser pulses; Chemical lasers; Optical control; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pulse measurements; Pulse shaping methods; Vibration measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2001. QELS '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-663-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2001.962245
  • Filename
    962245