Coherent Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy

Optical multidimensional coherent SPECTROSCOPY

Coherent multidimensional optical spectroscopy.

Multidimensional optical techniques, the focus of this special issue, are analogues of their NMR counterparts; that is, rather than using spin transitions as little spies within a molecule, we use vibrational or optical transitions. Similar to NMR, the spectroscopic states often respond in a very sensitive way to their chemical environment. By modeling the coupling of one of these states to eit...

Multidimensional coherent optical spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures: a review

Multidimensional Coherent optical Spectroscopy (MDCS) is an elegant and versatile tool to measure the ultrafast nonlinear optical response of materials. Of particular interest for semiconductor nanostructures, MDCS enables the separation of homogeneous and inhomogeneous linewidths, reveals the nature of coupling between resonances, and is able to identify the signatures of many-body interaction...

Probing anomalous relaxation by coherent multidimensional optical spectroscopy.

We propose to study the origin of algebraic decay of two-point correlation functions observed in glasses, proteins, and quantum dots by their nonlinear response to sequences of ultrafast laser pulses. Power-law spectral singularities and temporal relaxation in two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy signals are predicted for a continuous time random walk model of stochastic spectral jumps in a...

Focus on multidimensional optical spectroscopy and imaging

Optical spectroscopy using ultrafast light pulses has undergone a revolution in the last decade due to the introduction and development of multidimensional coherent techniques. These methods build on established coherent spectroscopic techniques, such as photon echoes, but go beyond them by correlating the coherent dynamics during two time periods. The resulting multidimensional spectra have a ...