Laser pulses restrictions

This approach is used to compute the TDPES for the ground electronic state Iso of H2 in the presence of linearly polarized, ultrashort, and intense laser pulses. Restricting the motion of the single electron and the two nuclei to the direction of the polarization axis of the laser field, we solved the problem using a 1-D Hamiltonian featuring soft-core Coulombic interactions [2] ... 

T-Jumps can also be produced by microwave heating and by laser pulse absorption. These methods remove the restriction to low-resistance solvents any solvent capable of absorbing energy of the applied frequency may be used. The heating time can be extremely short with laser heating. ... 

Raman scattering is essentially undelayed with respect to the arrival of the incident light, in this technique the detector is activated only during each laser pulse and deactivated at all other times. This allows only Raman signals to be recorded but fluorescence signals and detector noise are gated out (Fig. 19). Improvement in Raman signal to fluorescence ratio has been achieved as illustrated in Fig. 20. The technique, however, at present seems to be restricted by several instrumental limitations [37). 

Another restriction we may often wish to place on the laser pulse is to limit the frequency range of the electric held in the pulse. One method that has been used to accomphsh this is simply to eliminate frequency components of the held that lie outside a specihed range [63]. Another possibility is to use a frequency hlter, such as the twentieth-order Butterworth bandpass hlter [64], which is a smoother way of imposing basically the same restrictions [41, 42]. In order to impose such restrictions on the frequency content of the pulse, the time-dependent electric held of the laser pulse must be Fourier transformed so as to obtain its frequency spectrum. After the frequency spectrum of the laser pulse has been passed through the hlter, it is back transformed to yield back a... 

Figure 3 demonstrates the simplifications in the spectrum of an optimized laser pulse that can be achieved through the application of the sifting technique [see Fq. (7)]. The excitation efficiency of the pulse is only minimally reduced due to the additional restrictions imposed in the sifting procedure. The example used in this case is for a vibrational-rotational excitation process, H2(v = 0,7 = 0) H2(v =1,/ = 2). 

Although this work is restricted to electron acceleration, it has to be mentioned here for completeness that an increasing amount of work is currently devoted (often in the same laboratories) to the study of proton and light ion acceleration with laser pulses, also in view of future medical applications. Among a number of recent works on this subject, see for example [9] and [10]. 

Fourier Transform-limited 100 fs, 800 nm, 1015 W cm 2 laser pulse and (b) the optimum result obtained by means of an 80-parameter unrestricted optimisation (dashed line) and a restricted 3-parameter optimisation (full line). The inset in (b) shows the evolution of the fitness value for the 80 parameter optimisation (full squares maximum fitness, open squares average fitness), (c) Autocorrelation trace of the optimal pulse corresponding to the 80 parameters optimisation. The pulse shapes consists of two pulses of 120 fs of equal amplitude separated by 500 fs. 

G. Gerber In response to Prof. Mukamel, I should remark that the coherence between molecular electronic states induced by our intense ultrashort laser pulse is not restricted to bound states but also includes repulsive electronic surfaces. In that sense chemical bonding is related to electronic coherence. 

Figure 1. Diagram of the intensity / (W/cm2) vs. duration of laser pulse tp(s) with various regimes of interaction of the laser pulse with a condensed medium being indicated very qualitatively. At high-intensity and high-energy fluence 4> = rpI optical damage of the medium occurs. Coherent interaction takes place for subpicosecond pulses with tp < Ti, tivr. For low-eneigy fluence (4> < 0.001 J/cm2) the efficiency of laser excitation of molecules is very low (linear interaction range). As a result the experimental window for coherent control occupies the restricted area of this approximate diagram with flexible border lines.

The two important consequences of the third-order optical nonlinearities represented by x are third-harmonic generation and intensity dependence of the refractive index. Third-harmonic generation (THG) describes the process in which an incident photon field of frequency (oj) generates, through nonlinear polarization in the medium, a coherent optical field at 3a>. Through x interaction, the refractive index of the nonlinear medium is given as n = nQ+n I where n describes intensity dependence of the refractive index ana I is the instantaneous intensity of the laser pulse. There is no symmetry restriction on the third-order processes which can occur in all media including air. 

Fig. 3.6. Time-of-flight (TOF) traces for the interaction of Xe clusters (Aiavg = 1.6 104) with a Fourier-Transform-hmited lOOfs, 800nm, 101BWcm-2 laser pulse a, the best pulse found by a Genetic Algorithm (GA) in an 80-parameter unrestricted optimization (b, dashed line) and the best pulse found in a restricted 3-parameter optimization (b, solid line). The best pulse found by the GA consists of a sequence of two 120 fs pulses, separated by 500 fs...

This uitrasonio-opticai technique (or haif-opticai technique [89]) was aiso a hyphenated technique in terms of energy sources viz. thermai and opticai for phonon and photon production, respectiveiy). Thermai surface phonons restrict practical application of the technique owing to their iow scattering efficiency, which results in overly long data collection times (typicaiiy severai hours for a singie spectrum, even with advanced multipass interferometers). Similar to active Raman spectroscopy, coherent acoustic phonons are assumed to be excited by two narrow-line frequency tunable laser beams at different frequencies or by laser pulses of short duration compared to the acoustic period. 

In summary, concentrated azobenzene solutions represent reliable chemical actinometers for pulsed UV sources, such as the nitrogen laser line at 337.1 nm, the third harmonic output of Nd YAG lasers at 355 nm, or the XeCl excimer laser line at 308 nm. In contrast to the ferrioxalate actinometers, the azobenzene actinometers are not restricted to low-energy lasers but can measure laser pulse energies up to 150 mJ. 

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