Title :
Monitoring vibrational wave packet dynamics via direct femtosecond pump-probe measurements
Author :
Pestov, Dmitry ; Gombojav, Ariunbold ; Wang, Xi ; Murawski, Robert K. ; Sautenkov, Vladimir A. ; Rostovtsev, Yuri V. ; Patnaik, Anil ; Sokolov, Alexei V. ; Scully, Marlan O.
Author_Institution :
Institute for Quantum Studies and Depts. of Physics and Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, 77843, USA
Abstract :
Femtosecond pump-probe measurements are shown to reveal the evolution of excited vibrational wave packets in CS2 through the probe transmission modulation. Frequency-resolved acquisition allows for selective monitoring of different subsets of the Raman transitions excited.
Keywords :
Frequency; Monitoring; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast optics; Vibration measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431108
