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Jonas D M, Lang M J, Nagasawa Y, Joo T and Fleming G R 1996 Pump-probe polarization anisotropy study of femtoseoond energy transfer within the photosynthetio reaotion-oenter of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26 J. Rhys. 

Figure 8-10. Aral 1.82 eV (a) and 2.64 eV (b) in m-LPRP films al 7=77 K for pump-probe polarizations parallel (solid line) and perpendicular (dashed line) (from Ref. 25] with permission).

Polarization probes. Polarization methods other than LPR are also of use in process control and corrosion analysis, but only a few systems are offered commercially. These systems use such polarization techniques as galvanodynamic or potentiodynamic, potentiostatic or galvanostatic, potentiostaircase or galvanostaircase, or cyclic polarization methods. Some systems involving these techniques are, in fact, used regularly in processing plants. These methods are used in situ or in the laboratory to measure corrosion. Polarization probes have been successful in reducing corrosion-related failures in chemical plants. 

Fig. 2.12. Left transient anisotropic reflectivity change of the (001) surface of single crystal type Ha diamond. Inset shows the FT spectrum of the oscillation, demonstrating a narrow peak of the optical phonon at 40THz. Right pump and probe polarizations to detect the optical phonon. Adapted from [50]...

Detailed kinetic studies of the reaction of Fe(II) in cyclophane hemes with 02 and with CO probed polarity and steric effects the effects of deformation of the porphyrin skeleton from planarity were assessed for one compound (121). Volume profiles have been established for reactions of a lacunar Fe(II) complex with CO (122 for myoglobin with 02 and with CO and for hemerythrin with 02 (123). 

Raman microspectroscopy is readily performed on multiple locations inside each well. As in other instances, the results might not be representative of the whole sample because of the small sample volume probed. Polarization effects can be pronounced, but may be mitigated by averaging the results from additional locations. An alternative is rotating the sample, but this usually is not practical for multiwell plates. Both options increase analysis time. Such problems appear to be minimized when handling bulk powders [222,223,230], Several vendors sell systems preconfigured for automated analysis of microtiter plates and are typically integrated with optical microscopy. 

Two inverse Raman spectra of the flashed cyclohexane solutions are compared in Figure 6. The 3026 cm l absorption feature, suspected to be cyclohexene, agrees with the RIKES results. OHD-RIKES spectra with the ruby linearly polarized at 45° to the linear dye probe polarization and the analyzer rotated are also shown in Figure 6. The position of the suspected cyclohexene line appears as well as other features present in the IRS spectra. 

The origin of the large flash-induced background produced in the RIKES experiments is not immediately evident. However, a rotation of the quarter-wave plate of about 10° yields nearly the same background as observed in the flash experiments. Perhaps turbulence produced by the reaction is the source of this induced ellipticity of the circularly polarized pump. An induced ellipticity combined with a slight rotation of the probe polarization could explain some of the flashed RIKES spectra. 

Figure 3. Calculated LF PADs for ionization of a model C v molecule. PADs are shown for ionization of a and aj symmetry orbitals for the same set of dynamical parameters. The molecular axis distribution in these calculations was described as a cos2 0 distribution, where 0 is the angle between the direction of linear polarization of the pump laser and the principal molecular axis. The linear probe polarization is along the z axis. Panel (a) shows PADs for parallel pump and probe polarizations, while panel (b) shows PADs for perpendicular pump and probe polarizations. See Ref. [55] for the dynamical parameters used in these calculations.

Figure 11. Time-resolved PADs from ionization of DABCO for linearly polarized pump and probe pulses. Here, the optically bright S E state internally converts to the dark 5i state on picosecond time scales, (a) PADs at 200 fs time delay for pump and probe polarization vector both parallel to the spectrometer axis. The difference in electronic symmetry between S2 and Si leads to significant changes in the form of the PAD. (b) The PADs at 200 fs time delay for pump polarization parallel and probe polarization perpendicular to the spectrometer axis, showing the effects of lab frame molecular alignment, (c) and (d) The PADs evolve as a function of time due to molecular axis rotational wavepacket dynamics. Taken with permission from C. C. Hayden, unpublished.

Fig. 2.6. Top panel spectral migration of SE measured in photoexcited films of mLPPP. The two spectra are SE just following excitation and after 10 ps. The inset shows the shift of the SE peak with time on a wavelength axis. Bottom panel photoinduced dichroism decay in mLPPP films following excitation with linearly polarized 390 nm pulses after 150 fs. The inset shows the pump-probe traces for parallel (higher) and perpendicular (lower) pump-probe polarization. Both data sets are assigned to the same phenomena, namely, energy migration within the conjugated segments or chains...

In its simplest implementation, OKE spectroscopy is a form of pump-probe polarization spectroscopy. A powerful pump pulse, linearly polarized at 45° to the vertical, is used to induce a transient birefringence in the liquid... 

Cavanagh MC, Martini IB, Schwartz BJ. (2004) Revisiting the pump-probe polarized transient hole-burning of the hydrated electron Is its absorption spectrum inhomogeneously broadened Chem Phys Letts 396 359-366. 

Figure 2. CARS time profile calculated under the polarizatirai condition [Z, X, Z, X]. The Stokes and probe polarizations are perpendicular and parallel to the pump one, respectively.

Angle, V (d rees), between Pump and Probe Polarizations... 

Equations 12.15a and 12.15b clearly demonstrates the anisotropy of the stationary caused by the AHB effect. In the case of the % 3333, w hich is the only tensor component involved in the THG experiment, the probe and signal beams are all polarized along the 3-axis. Therefore, in Equations 12.15a and 12.15b, the pump polarization is either parallel 0 - 0°) or perpendicular (0 = 90°) to the probe polarization. Defining X3333 = 0°) = zjf ... 

FIG. 12.13 Reversible rapid erase of the EFISH signal of the PI-1 polymer for four combinations of the irradiation and the probe polarizations, e.g., p (top)- or s (bottom)-probes and p (left)- or s (right)-irradiation. After Ref. 3. 

For incident and diffracted probe polarizations k and / and excitation pulse polarizations i and j, the intensity of the diffracted signal is... 

The diffracted probe beam is detected by a photomultiplier and a lock-in amplifier. A microcomputer controls the data acquisition by varying the probe polarization and monitoring the diffracted signal strength and the delayline position. The sample temperature during any given measurement was constant to 0.1 °C. 

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