Toward two-dimensional photon echo spectroscopy with 200 nm laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2118-2125

  West, Brantley A ^a   Giokas, Paul G ^a   Molesky, Brian P ^a   Ross, Andrew D ^a   Moran, Andrew M ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; SPECTROMETERS;

ELEMENTARY RELAXATION; FEMTOSECOND SPECTROSCOPY; FILAMENTATION; PHOTON ECHOES; PHOTON-ECHO SPECTROSCOPY; SMALL MOLECULES; TRANSIENT GRATING; UV WAVELENGTH RANGES;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ADENOSINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; PHOTON; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADENOSINE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874026060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002118     Document Type: Article

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