Optical state preparation

Optical state preparation has been employed much more often. First experiments by the IBM Yorktown Heights and Miinchen groups excited NO vibrationally by an infrared laser [118,126-131]. In all cases, it was found that vibrational relaxation at surfaces is very inefficient. Perhaps this can be understood from the comparison made above of rotational and vibrational excitation. Rotational excitation occurs in the electronic ground state of the molecule-surface system. The coupling is mechanical and is fairly efficient. This has also been seen for rotational relaxation, discussed above. Vibrational relaxation may involve electronic excitation of the molecule-surface system. This is much more improbable, and results in weak coupling between vibration and the other degrees of freedom. More detailed experiments are needed to shed more light on this issue, and those will be discussed next. 

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Laser state-to-state techniques include both the application of highly sensitive laser spectroscopy for internal state-resolved detection of molecules in the gas phase, e.g., desorbing or scattering from a surface, and second, for laser pumping an initial state prior to interaction with a surface. To date, laser detection of internal states has been widely applied in gas-surface dynamics experiments, while those involving optical state preparation techniques have only been applied in a limited fashion. 

The interest in the FD quantum-optical states has been stimulated by the progress in quantum-optical state preparation and measurement techniques [36], in particular, by the development of the discrete quantum-state tomography [37-42]. There are several other reasons for studying states in FD spaces ... 

The above theory is usually called the generalized linear response theory because the linear optical absorption initiates from the nonstationary states prepared by the pumping process [85-87]. This method is valid when pumping pulse and probing pulse do not overlap. When they overlap, third-order or X 3 (co) should be used. In other words, Eq. (6.4) should be solved perturbatively to the third-order approximation. From Eqs. (6.19)-(6.22) we can see that in the time-resolved spectra described by x"( ), the dynamics information of the system is contained in p(Af), which can be obtained by solving the reduced Liouville equations. Application of Eq. (6.19) to stimulated emission monitoring vibrational relaxation is given in Appendix III. 

As the strength of D/A coupling increases, governed by T y, a number of adjustments to the TST rate constant formulation may be required. If nuclear quantum effects are minor, the LZ model may be applied to cases of arbitrary 7jy magnitude, expressed either in terms of a diabatic or adiabatic basis [8J. The relative merits of the two bases (as well as limitations in the applicability of the LZ model) have been discussed recently in conjunction with the analysis of electron transfer from strongly-coupled D/A initial states prepared optically [39, 65]. 

Abstract The spatiotemporal optical mode of the single-photon Fock state prepared by conditional measurements on a biphoton is investigated and found to be identical to that of a classical wave due to a nonlinear interaction of the pump wave and Klyshko s advanced wave. We discuss the applicability of this identity in various experimental settings. 

Figure 10. Simulation of the EPR state preparation in an optical lattice with 25 sites, at three consecutive times. First row shows the joint probability distribution in x representation, the second one in p representation, (ol) and (a2) initially (t = 0), the atoms are cooled down to the external harmonic potential ground state, whereas the LIDDI is off. (61) and (62) at t = 1.4 x 10-4 s LIDDI and the repulsive linear potential (with the slope 0.04 Erec per lattice site) are on, whereas the harmonic potential is off. The diatoms are moving through the lattice very slowly in comparison to the single atoms, (cl) and (c2) at t = 2.16 x 10 4 s single atoms are ejected out of the lattice and discarded and the diatoms are separated out.

As stated earlier, the postmonochromator optics should prepare the incident beam in a way that avoids angle and wavelength averaging effects that would smear (or reduce the fringe visibility of) the XSW. Figure 12a shows the X vs. DuMond diagram for the APS undulator source at E7 = 12.50 keV, the Si(lll) monochromator, and the pair of Si(004) postmonochromator reflections. The slanted stripes represent the conditions where Bragg diffraction is allowed on the basis of dynamical diffraction theory. The... 

For to = S = 0, the initial wavepacket is considered to be prepared instantaneously at maximum intensity. In contrast, if to is set equal to T/4 (T = In/co), corresponding to 5 = tt/2, the initial state preparation occurs at the start of an optical cycle, i.e., at zero-field infensity. The two situations result into completely different dynamics, the former leading to dissociation quenching, while the latter is monitored by a barrier suppression mechanism. This distinction can best be understood by viewing the dynamics as taking place on the time-dependent adiabatic potential surfaces W R,t) which arise from diagonalizing the potential energy operator of Eq. (61). 

All of these converging data imply a negligibly weak s-l mixing. The state prepared by optical excitation is an almost pure Sj state, coupled to a dense quasi-continuum of ground-state So vibronic levels (this coupling induces a slow internal conversion), but practically not coupled to the triplet state. This seems to be a direct consequence of a low value for nji - nrt interaction as compared to the average [sj — e, value. 

At the same time collisions induce the thermally equilibrated phosphorescence from the lowest vibronic levels of the T, state, but the overall triplet character of the system (monitored by the T-T absorption or the T-T transfer yield) remains unchanged. The phosphorescence induction may thus be considered as resulting from vibrational relaxation, transferring the molecules from short-lived and weakly fluorescing mixed states to the pure triplet states, with a relatively higher phosphorescence yield (Lahmani et ai, 1974 van der Werf, 1976). We consider, therefore, that the term collision-induced intersystem crossing, often used in this case, is not appropriate. Collisions do not induce, but only sample (by transfer to phosphorescent levels) inherent triplet character of states prepared by optical excitation and unimolecular evolution. 

Ding, Y, Jiang, S., Luo, T, Hu, Y, and Peyghambarian, N., Optical waveguides prepared in Er3, doped tellurite glass by Ag -Na ion-exchange, in Rare-Earth-Doped Materials and Devices V, San Jose, CA, United States, [Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2001), 23. 

The situation of displacement determination stands in evident contrast. Given careful optical beam preparation, the interval between two positions of a retroreflecting mirror can be determined with considerable refinement. Simply stated, almost all questions about optical phase shift, surface location and certain classes of imperfection disappear when the same surface is illuminated at each terminus (and, if appropriate, during the "scan). There are important questions about illumination averaging but these can be controlled as has been already demonstrated below the 10 level. 

These limitations have recently been eliminated using solid-state sources of femtosecond pulses. Most of the femtosecond dye laser teclmology that was in wide use in the late 1980s [11] has been rendered obsolete by tliree teclmical developments the self-mode-locked Ti-sapphire oscillator [23, 24, 25, 26 and 27], the chirped-pulse, solid-state amplifier (CPA) [28, 29, 30 and 31], and the non-collinearly pumped optical parametric amplifier (OPA) [32, 33 and 34]- Moreover, although a number of investigators still construct home-built systems with narrowly chosen capabilities, it is now possible to obtain versatile, nearly state-of-the-art apparatus of the type described below Ifom commercial sources. Just as home-built NMR spectrometers capable of multidimensional or solid-state spectroscopies were still being home built in the late 1970s and now are almost exclusively based on commercially prepared apparatus, it is reasonable to expect that ultrafast spectroscopy in the next decade will be conducted almost exclusively with apparatus ifom conmiercial sources based around entirely solid-state systems. 

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