Optical spectroscopy, examples

We now proceed to some examples of this Fourier transfonn view of optical spectroscopy. Consider, for example, the UV absorption spectnun of CO2, shown in figure Al.6.11. The spectnuu is seen to have a long progression of vibrational features, each with fairly unifonu shape and width. Wliat is the physical interpretation of tliis vibrational progression and what is the origin of the width of the features The goal is to come up with a dynamical model that leads to a wavepacket autocorrelation fiinction whose Fourier transfonn... 

This example once again illustrates the fact that Cl-Singles excited state calculations can find states which are detectable only by some mechanism other than optical spectroscopy. ... 

The understanding of phosphors and solid-state luminescence has matured to the point at which relatively rational design and preparation of new light-emitting materials can be achieved. This has resulted from advances in solid-state physics and optical spectroscopy coupled to the development of new chemical synthesis techniques. This has led to the rapid development of phosphors as important industrial/technological materials. Examples of the occurrence of phosphors in everyday use include ... 

Optical spectroscopy has merits in identifying radical cations, particularly when their spectra are known independently. For example, the radiolysis of quadricyclane led to the observation of the known spectrum of norbornadiene radical cation. In another study, irradiation of cyclooctatetraene radical cation caused the color of the sample to change from bright red to royal blue, suggesting the conversion to a different species, the previously identified semibullvalene radical cation. Further irradiation of the latter led to a characteristic banded (vibrationally resolved) spectrum the nature of this spectrum suggested that the rearranged species may be a linear conjugated radical cation and helped in its identification as 1,4-dihydropen-talene radical cation. ... 

To demonstrate the versatility of nonlinear microspectroscopy with shaped broadband laser pulses, TPF is chosen as a second example. Remember that TPF can be implemented only by programming the pulse shaper differently and sampling a different wavelength range of the signal spectrum in the same experimental setup. TPF is so far probably the most widely applied nonlinear optical spectroscopy... 

Nonlinear optical spectroscopies such as second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency generation (SFG) are finding increasing use in probing species at interfaces (e.g., Eisenthal, 1996). For example, SHG was used by Donaldson et al. (1995) to detect a surface-bound S02 species, and SFG has been applied to elucidate the structure of dimethyl sulfoxide at liquid interfaces (Allen et al., 1999). These techiques are... 

A review of deconvolution methods applied to ESCA (Carley and Joyner, 1979) shows that Van Cittert s method has played a big role. Because the Lorentzian nature of the broadening does not completely obliterate the high Fourier frequencies as does the sine-squared spreading encountered in optical spectroscopy (its transform is the band-limiting rect function), useful restorations are indeed possible through use of such linear methods. Rendina and Larson (1975), for example, have used a multiple filter approach. Additional detail is given in Section IV.E of Chapter 3. 

Femtosecond photoion (photoelectron) microscopy combines the merits of two types of microscopy the high spatial resolution of ion projective microscopy and the high spectral (energy) resolution of optical spectroscopy. From this point of view, photoion microscopy is an interesting example of wave-corpuscular microscopy. Indeed, there are two well-known types of microscopy wave (optical) and corpuscular (electron, ion). 

As we shall discuss below, it is also more straightforward to calculate the relative intensity of vibrational modes observed by inelastic neutron scattering than in electron-energy-loss and optical spectroscopies. The relative intensity of the modes, as well as their frequency, can then be used to identify the atomic displacement pattern or eigenvector of the mode. We shall also see through examples of model calculations how the relative intensity of surface vibratory modes is sensitive to the orientation of the adsorbed molecule and the strength and location of its bond to the surface. 

One indication of the developing interest in PATs in the pharmaceutical area is the number of book chapters and review articles in this field that have appeared in the last few years. Several chapters in The Handbook of Vibrational Spectroscopy3 are related to the use of various optical spectroscopies in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. Warman and Hammond also cover spectroscopic techniques extensively in their chapter titled Process Analysis in the Pharmaceutical Industry in the text Pharmaceutical Analysis.4 Pharmaceutical applications are included in an exhaustive review of near-infrared (NIR) and mid-infrared (mid-IR) by Workman,5 as well as the periodic applications reviews of Process Analytical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science in the journal Analytical Chemistry. The Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology has several chapters on spectroscopic methods of analysis, with the chapters on Diffuse Reflectance and Near-Infrared Spectrometry particularly highlighting on-line applications. There are an ever-expanding number of recent reviews on pharmaceutical applications, and a few examples are cited for Raman,7 8 NIR,9-11 and mid-IR.12... 

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