Noisy optical pulses enhance the temporal resolution of pump-probe spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Meyer, Kristina ^a   Ott, Christian ^a   Raith, Philipp ^a   Kaldun, Andreas ^a   Jiang, Yuhai ^a,b   Senftleben, Arne ^a   Kurka, Moritz ^a   Moshammer, Robert ^a   Ullrich, Joachim ^a,c   Pfeifer, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECONDS; COLORED NOISE; EVOLUTION TIME; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; PARTIALLY COHERENT LIGHT; PULSE DURATIONS; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-SCALES; WAVE-PACKET MOTION; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

DEUTERIUM; QUANTUM THEORY;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84863230110     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.098302     Document Type: Article

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