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Femtosecond X-ray Pulses from a Synchrotron
An important frontier in ultrafast science is the application of femtosecond x-ray pulses to the study of structural dynamics in condensed matter. We show that femtosecond laser pulses can be used to generate ...
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Article
Generation of femtosecond X-ray pulses via laser–electron beam interaction
The generation of femtosecond X-ray pulses will have important scientific applications by enabling the direct measurement of atomic motion and structural dynamics in condensed matter on the fundamental time sc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generation of “Dark” Femtosecond Synchrotron Pulses from the Advanced Light Source
Femtosecond optical pulses extract ~100 fs slices of electrons from the electron beam at the ALS. We directly measure the resulting ~500-fs “dark” pulses in the synchrotron radiation from a bend-magnet.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Temporal Broadening Of Femtosecond High Harmonic Radiation
Measurement of femtosecond high harmonic radiation indicates that significant pulse shortening can be accomplished by limiting the transverse intensity variation of the generating laser pulse.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in InSb Probed by Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction
Ultrafast structural dynamics in InSb are studied using time-resolved x-ray diffraction. A delayed onset of significant lattice expansion and an indication of subpicosecond disordering are observed.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ultrafast Dephasing Dynamics and Multi-Level Electronic Structure of InP Nanocrystals
Femtosecond three-pulse photon echoes and nanosecond hole-burning are used to study dephasing dynamics and electronic level structure in InP nanocrystals. The temperature dependence of the echo decay rate show...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Temperature Dependent Electronic Dephasing of Molecules in Polymers Measured by Femtosecond Three Pulse Photon Echoes
The electronic dephasing of the molecules LD690 and LDS750 is investigated as a function of temperature in the polymers PMMA and PVA.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Femtosecond X-Rays Generated via 90° Thomson Scattering
We have developed a unique source of femtosecond x-rays operating in the 300 fs, 0.4 Å regime[l], which will allow us to apply x-ray techniques with ultrafast time resolution to directly probe the structural d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Size Dependent Absorption Anisotropy Measurements of CdSe Nanocrystals: Symmetry Assignments for the Lowest Electronic States
Absorption anisotropy measurements reveal the symmetry of the lowest electronic state in CdSe nanocrystals switches from E to A with decreasing nanocrystal diameter. This size dependence originates from a comp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Measurement of High Harmonic Pulse Durations Via Laser Assisted X-Ray Photoionization
Ultrashort x-ray pulses are powerful diagnostic tools, combining the temporal resolution typically reserved for optical (laser) pulses with atomic scale spatial resolution which, in principle, can be achieved ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Selective Excitation of Wavepacket Motion in the Condensed Phase Using Chirped Pulses
Chirped ultrashort pulses are used to selctively excite coherent wavepacket motion on either the ground or excited electronic states of the molecules LD690 and bacteriorhodopsin in room temperature liquid solu...
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Chapter
Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Retinal Proteins
Recent advances in the generation of ultrashort light pulses1,2 have made possible the study of chemical and biological reactions with unprecedented time resolution. Two of the most rapid reactions that have been...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Two-Dimensional Carrier—Carrier Screening Studied with Femtosecond Photon Echoes
The two dimensional behavior of carrier-carrier screening is studied in a GaAs-GaAlAs quantum well structure with femtosecond photon echoes. The variation of the electron hole dephasing time with carrier densi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
k-Space Carrier Dynamics in GaAs
We investigate the scattering dynamics of carriers in k-space for different carrier densities in GaAs, by analyzing the polarization of pump-probe signals produced by 9-femtosecond infrared pulses. The relaxation...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generation of Blue-Green 10 fs Pulses Using an Excimer-Pumped Dye Amplifier
A CPM laser at 620 nm is used to generate 22 fs pulses at 500 nm using an excimer-pumped dye amplifier and continuum generation. The blue-green pulses are compressed to 10 fs using a fiber and grating/prism co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Imaging with Femtosecond Optical Pulses
The interaction of short laser pulses with semiconductors has been studied by a variety of techniques including time-resolved reflectivity, [1–5] transmission, ]1–5] photoluminescence, [1–5] surface ellipsomet...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Procedure for Calculating Optical Pulse Compression from Fiber-Grating Combinations
An optical pulse can be compressed by a dispersive grating pair after first inducing a frequency chirp in a single-mode optical fiber [1,2]. It is of interest to know how much compression is possible and what ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Bacteriorhodopsin Excited State Dynamics
The dynamics of the photochemistry of bacteriorhodopsin have been investigated extensively.[1] Bacteriorhodopsin is a pigment related to visual rhodopsins which is extracted from the cell membrane of the bacte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Femtosecond Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Correlated Electron-Hole Pair Distributions in Room-Temperature GaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structures
The GaAs multiple quantum well structure (MQWS) is a new and unique nonlinear optical material [1]. The reduced dimensionality of the electron-hole system in the ultra-thin (100 Å) layers gives rise to clear e...
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Spectroscopy with Femtosecond Optical Pulses
This paper reviews the recent advances in femtosecond pulse generation and measurement techniques.