Control process, laser pulses, research

The invention of schemes to induce and observe dynamical processes in molecules employing ultrashort laser pulses has founded research areas with the names Femtochemistry and Femtobiology [1-8], culminating with the Nobel Prize awarded to Ahmed Zewail for his achievements in femtosecond spectroscopy [9,10]. More recently, the technology of pulse shaping [11,12] has opened up the field of laser control of chemical reactions, until then populated only by theorists [13-17]. This has been an active area of research in recent years [18— 23], and textbooks [24-26] as well as many reviews [27-40] have been published on the topic. 

Maguire, J.F. Busbee, J.D. Liptak, D.C. Lubbers, D.P. LeClair, S.R. 8c Biggers, R.R. Process Control for Pulsed Laser Deposition Using Raman Spectroscopy US 6,038,525 Assigned to Southwest Research Institute Filed in 1997. 

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