Ultrafast excited state population relaxation in femtosecond four-wave mixing experiments

Author(s):  
A.J. Boeglin ◽  
J.P. Lavoine ◽  
P. Martin ◽  
A.A. Villaeys
2002 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 233-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Venugopal Rao ◽  
D. Narayana Rao

We present our experimental results on the measurements of excited state dynamics in phthalocyanines ( Pc , CuPc , FePc , and ZnPc ) using degenerate four wave mixing with incoherent light (DFWM-IL). Three different timescales were observed, for all samples, in the phase conjugate signal recorded as a function of delay in probe beam in the standard backward geometry. The fastest component (< 170 fs) is associated to the phase relaxation in the S n states and the slowest components (∼3-5 ps and 35-55 ps) to the vibration and population relaxation times from the S1 state. The present results are compared with those obtained with shorter pulses and various techniques for similar molecules. The consequences of such short lifetimes are also discussed in view of the strong optical limiting properties of these molecules.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Bencivenga ◽  
Marco Zangrando ◽  
Cristian Svetina ◽  
Alessandro Abrami ◽  
Andrea Battistoni ◽  
...  

The recent advent of free-electron laser (FEL) sources is driving the scientific community to extend table-top laser research to shorter wavelengths adding elemental selectivity and chemical state specificity. Both a compact setup (mini-TIMER) and a separate instrument (EIS-TIMER) dedicated to four-wave-mixing (FWM) experiments has been designed and constructed, to be operated as a branch of the Elastic and Inelastic Scattering beamline: EIS. The FWM experiments that are planned at EIS-TIMER are based on the transient grating approach, where two crossed FEL pulses create a controlled modulation of the sample excitations while a third time-delayed pulse is used to monitor the dynamics of the excited state. This manuscript describes such experimental facilities, showing the preliminary results of the commissioning of the EIS-TIMER beamline, and discusses original experimental strategies being developed to study the dynamics of matter at the fs–nm time–length scales. In the near future such experimental tools will allow more sophisticated FEL-based FWM applications, that also include the use of multiple and multi-color FEL pulses.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 033001
Author(s):  
Pengyuan Chang Pengyuan Chang ◽  
Bo Pang Bo Pang ◽  
Yisheng Wu Yisheng Wu ◽  
Jingbiao Chen Jingbiao Chen

1990 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 2406-2409 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Lee ◽  
W. Benenson ◽  
C. Bloch ◽  
Y. Chen ◽  
R. J. Radtke ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Brakenhoff ◽  
Arjan H. Buist ◽  
Michiel Mueller ◽  
Jeffrey A. Squier ◽  
Chris J. Bardeen ◽  
...  

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