Optical experiments

Wynne K and Hochstrasser R M 1993 Coherence effects in the anisotropy of optical experiments Chem. Phys. 171 179-88... 

The vast majority of single-molecule optical experiments employ one-photon excited spontaneous fluorescence as the spectroscopic observable because of its relative simplicity and inlierently high sensitivity. Many molecules fluoresce with quantum yields near unity, and spontaneous fluorescence lifetimes for chromophores with large oscillator strengths are a few nanoseconds, implying that with a sufficiently intense excitation source a single... 

However, its qualitative difference from the spectrum obtained in the col-lisional model is that it is inhomogeneously broadened and its structure may be observed in a nonlinear optical experiment. 

There was thus the need for optical experiments showing the flaws of classical electrodynamics. An important difference between a wave and a particle is with respect to a beam splitter a wave can be split in two while a photon can not. An intensity correlation measurement between the two output ports of the beamsplitter is a good test as a wave would give a non zero correlation while a particle would show no correlation, the particle going either in one arm or the other. However, when one takes an attenuated source, such as the one used by Taylor, it contains single photon pulses but also a (small) fraction of two... 

Ozin et al. 107,108) performed matrix, optical experiments that resulted in the identification of the dimers of these first-row, transition metals. For Sc and Ti (4s 3d and 4s 3d, respectively), a facile dimerization process was observed in argon. It was found that, for Sc, the atomic absorptions were blue-shifted 500-1000 cm with respect to gas-phase data, whereas the extinction coefficients for both Sc and Scj were of the same order of magnitude, a feature also deduced for Ti and Ti2. The optical transitions and tentative assignments (based on EHMO calculations) are summarized in Table I. 

More recently, the method of scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) has been applied to LB films of phospholipids and has revealed submicron-domain structures [55-59]. The method involves scanning a fiber-optic tip over a surface in much the same way an AFM tip is scanned over a surface. In principle, other optical experiments could be combined with the SNOM, snch as resonance energy transfer, time-resolved flnorescence, and surface plasmon resonance. It is likely that spectroscopic investigation of snbmicron domains in LB films nsing these principles will be pnrsned extensively. 

Other possible direct probes are optical experiments similar to studies [113] of vesicles but expanded towards shorter A (20-30 A). Alternatively neutron spin-echo studies of stacked bilayer arrays, which can probe the 10-30 A range [114], might possibly be applicable here. Finally, the x-ray grazing-incidence technique has been shown to be a powerful tool for studying short wavelength fluctuations at fluid interfaces [100]. The application of this technique to the investigation of membrane surface fluctuations can reasonably be expected in the near future [115,116]. 

Dry DR units, both with and without IVC (for optical experiments), are now commercially available. 

Skinner, J. L. and Trommsdorf, H. P. Proton transfer in benzoic acid crystals A chemical spin-boson problem. Theoretical analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance, neutron scattering, and optical experiments, J.Chem.Phys., 89 (1988), 897-907... 

A further support for the identification of the species responsible for the unimolecular conductance increase in terms of a chlorine-containing radical is the fact that in a blank experiment, i.e. one in which chloride is left out, a slow conductance increase is not observed and the overaU conductance yield is only half of that in the presence of chloride. Since in isobutene-saturated aqueous solution the lifetime of SOi is only 90 ns due to its rapid reaction with the alkene (as determined by optical experiments at 450 nm) [46], the non-observability of a unimolecular conductance increase means that the rate constant for heterolysis of the SO adduct to isobutene is 10 s" (cf. Eq. 32) ... 

Compounds 1,2,3,5,10,11,12,13,14 were dissolved in EPIP (diethyl ether, petroleum ether, isopropanol 5 5 2)whereas compounds 4,6,7,8,9,15 were dissolved in THF-DE (tetrahydrofurane, diethyl ether 1 1). These solvent mixtures can be frozen as glassy samples at 77 K. The absorption spectra were recorded on a standard spectrophotometer SF-10 or Beckman-5270. The measurements of fluorescence excitation and emission spectra were made with the aid of a spectrofluorometer SLM-4800 with automatic correction of spectral response. Fluorescence lifetimes were measured with the aid of a pulse fluorometer PRA-3000. Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) measurements were carried out in a 8 kG magnetic field using a JASCO J-20 circular dichrometer. Triplet state formation was observed for investigated compounds at the experimental set up, whose detailed description can be found in our paper (27). The optical experiments were carried out with a porphyrin concentration of 4.10- - 4.10 mol.l". In NMR investigations (Bruker WM-360) we used higher concentrations ( 5.10" raol.l ) and dried solvents (CDCl, C 2 and toluene-d0). 

When this gratuitously titled machinery is set into rotary motion, the striped and displaced circles appear to undulate. This movement produces a hypnotic illusion of pulsating depth, or what Robert Lebel poetically called a screen for suggestive metamorphosis. Fascinated by this quirky optical experiment, Duchamp (especially in 1926) created a number of substitute disks decorated with either spiral-linear and colored patterns, many of which included similarly inscribed onomatopoetically, pseudo-emblematic patterns (see MD-125, MD-126, MD-135, MD-139). These motorized illusionistic doodles continued in production, culminating eventually in 1935, with the editions of some 1500, flat cardboard disks, collectively called the Rotoreliefs (MD-144). Another approach in this direction of rotary symbolism was represented in the 1926 film Anemic Cinema (MD-140), where spirals alternate with puns inscribed within slowly turning disks. ... 

A Nonlinear Optical Experiment Stimulated Raman Scattering in Benzene and Deuterated Benzene 33... 

Despite the success of purely optical methods such as luminescence and absorption in studying shallow energy levels, they are seldom used for characterization of deep states. This is mainly because the deeper levels of interest are usually nonradiative ones or killer centers for which such techniques are not applicable. In addition, the deep position within the energy gap means optical experiments must be performed in the infrared where... 

Hyperpolarizabilities of molecules are an active field of study, because they determine a variety of important nonlinear optical effects. However, the deduction of hyperpolarizabilities from these nonlinear optical experiments is a very complicated business. The experiments are carried out at finite frequencies, so some extrapolation is required to obtain an estimate of the static (zero frequency) value. Also, there is a contribution to the hyperpolarizability from molecular vibrations, so even after extrapolation to zero frequency the experimental result may not correspond to what is desired. It is therefore very useful to study atoms, both theoretically and experimentally, since this vibrational contribution is necessarily absent. Calculations... 

Most of the kinetic measurements were made at 77 K. In these experiments at 77 K, the trapped electrons and the O anion radicals were generated by irradiation at 77 K of vitreous 10 M solutions of NaOH in H20 either with electrons with an energy of 4.5 MeV or with y-quanta from a60 Co source. In the EPR measurements, the ampoules in which the vitreous solutions were irradiated had been preliminarily covered with a thin layer of Indian ink to prevent photobleaching of the et . These ampoules were also used as EPR cells. In the optical experiments, the irradiated ampoules were stored in dark containers between measurements. Special tests have shown that, for both the optical and the EPR measurements, no decrease in concentration of et , takes place during transfer of samples from the containers to the cells of the spectrometers. Also, no bleaching of ety by the analyzing light of the spectrophotometer is observed. 

As is known in the reaction centres of PSl, there are at least two molecules of iron-sulphur protein which can be reduced photochemically [46-48]. Observations of the simultaneous decay at low temperatures of P700 and reduced molecules of iron-sulphur protein with a half-wave potential of 530 mV indicate that, at least at such temperatures, it is this iron-sulphur protein that serves as the stable primary acceptor A [40,49]. This conclusion is also corroborated by the results of EPR and optical experiments which show the yield of P700+ to decrease upon preliminary (previous to illumination) redox titration of subchloroplasts leading to the... 

In optical experiments the absorption of radiation is governed by the Beer-Lambert law. If I0(E) is the measured intensity of a beam of electromagnetic radiation of energy E and 1(E) that following absorption by a gas of thickness L containing n molecules per unit volume, then 21... 

The earth s rotation around its axis can be seen from the apparent motion of the stars. The rotation can also be observed by mechanical experiments carried out on the surface of the earth, that is, with the help of Foucault s pendulum, or by observing of the motion of a rapidly rotating gyroscope. It is important that the rotation of the earth can also be observed by closed optical experiments. 

Figure 3. Signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) in the optical experiment for a signal at frequency fl = 3.9 Hz as a function of the internal noise intensity [115]. Inset the corresponding signal amplification.

Superluminal photon tunneling has been observed in both the microwave range [18-20] and in the optical domain [21-24] in experiments performed at Cologne [18,19], Florence [20], Berkeley [21], Vienna [22], Orsay [23], and Rennes [24], Apart from the optical experiment with total internal reflection [23] (in which, as seen before, the barrier is represented by the airgap between the two prisms), two kinds of electromagnetic barriers have been used. 

Despite their versatility, electrophysiological methods typically report neurotransmitter release from a population of synapses or release sites. In most cases, unitary quantal transmission can only be detected using recordings of spontaneous neurotransmission or under settings that activate a very small number of synapses. Moreover, these methods usually provide little or no spatial information about the origin of release. Optical experiments using fluorescent probes, on the other hand, report... 

According to the factor-group analysis, there are 18 Raman and 9 IR active new vibrational modes in the low-temperature structure of CuGe03, below the temperature of the spin-Peierls transition Tc=14 K. While two of the Raman-active folded modes were clearly observed in the very first optical experiments, no traces of the IR folded modes could be found for a long time. We have observed IR folded modes for the first time, measuring... 

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