Vibrationally coherent photochemistry in the femtosecond primary event of vision

Science

Volumn 266, Issue 5184, 1994, Pages 422-424

  Wang, Qing ^a   Schoenlein, Robert W ^b   Peteanu, Linda A ^a,c   Mathies, Richard A ^a   Shank, Charles V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; VISION;

CHROMOPHORE; FEMTOSECOND PUMP PROBE EXPERIMENT; GROUND STATE; PHOTOPRODUCT; RHODOPSIN;

PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

RHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; ISOMERISM; OSCILLATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRATION; VISION;

EID: 0028519152     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.7939680     Document Type: Article

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