Tracking ultrafast energy flow in molecules using broadly tunable few-optical-cycle pulses

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 329-339

  Brida, Daniele ^a   Manzoni, Cristian ^b   Cirmi, Giovanni ^c   Polli, Dario ^a   Cerullo, Giulio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtobiology; few optical cycle light pulses; optical parametric amplifiers; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSFER; ENERGY FLOW; FEMTOBIOLOGY; FEMTOSECONDS; FEW-OPTICAL-CYCLE LIGHT PULSES; GAIN BANDWIDTH; LIGHT PULSE; LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX; NEAR-IR; NONRADIATIVE DECAY PROCESS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMER-FULLERENE; REAL TIME; SELECTED EXAMPLES; TIME-SCALES; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY;

ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MOLECULES; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; POLYMER BLENDS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 84856959934     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2125782     Document Type: Review

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