Absolute measurement of femtosecond pump-probe signal strength

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 117, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 6332-6345

  Cho, Byungmoon ^a   Tiwari, Vivek ^a   Hill, Robert J ^a,c   Peters, William K ^a   Courtney, Trevor L ^a,b   Spencer, Austin P ^a   Jonas, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITED STATES; LASER BEAMS; PROBES;

ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS; ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; FEMTOSECOND PUMP PROBES; POPULATION RELAXATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; STEADY-STATE ABSORPTION; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84880814149     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4019662     Document Type: Article

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