Degenerate four-wave mixing spectroscopy as a probe of orientation and alignment in molecular systems

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 7713-7738

  Wasserman, Thierry A W ^a   Vaccaro, Patrick H ^a   Johnson, Bruce R ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CALCULATIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING SPECTROSCOPY; ROTATIONAL ANISOTROPY; TWO-COLOR LASER-INDUCED GRATING SPECTROSCOPY; ZEEMAN COHERENCES;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032496037     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.476207     Document Type: Article

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