Angle determination and scattering suppression in polarization-enhanced two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy in the pump-probe geometry

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21665-21677

  Réhault, Julien ^a   Helbing, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROBES; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMPLIFIED SIGNALS; ANISOTROPY MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR DICHROISM; POLARIZATION-ENHANCED; PUMP-PROBE; SIGNAL TO NOISE; TRANSITION DIPOLE MOMENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPECTRA;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84866240629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021665     Document Type: Article

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37. Note that in our discussion of polarization-enhanced UV-IR pump-probe spectroscopy in ref. [30], we neglected the symmetry of the problem. Considering A} signals separately, we wrongly stated that measurements with only little amplification were always necessary in order to reliably determine 0 and therefore concluded that our approach constituted only a modest improvement when compared to the conventional method of using parallel and perpendicular probing. This is actually not true and this method can be in fact much more precise for the determination of angles, especially near magic angle, or when the usual anisotropy measurements fail because of low signal to noise.