Impact of pulse polarization on coherent vibrational ladder climbing signals

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 115, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 5554-5563

  Nuernberger, Patrick ^a,b   Vieille, Thibault ^a,c   Ventalon, Cathie ^a,d   Joffre, Manuel ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE ET BIOSCIENCES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c Fastlite   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; POLARIZATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBES; PUMPS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

A-DENSITY; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INHOMOGENEITIES; MIDINFRARED; MODEL SYSTEM; ORIENTED SAMPLE; POLARIZATION STATE; POPULATION INVERSIONS; PROBE BEAM; PROBE PULSE; PULSE POLARIZATION; PUMP INTENSITIES; PUMP PULSE; PUMP-AND-PROBE; SPATIAL PROFILES; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; ULTRA-FAST;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 79958240570     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp1113762     Document Type: Article

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