Published December 1, 1982
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Journal Article
Laser probing of vibrational energy redistribution and dephasing
Abstract
This paper addresses questions important to the origin of optical dephasing and vibrational energy redistributions in molecules. Several laser techniques are discussed and three major findings are presented. These findings are related to (a) optical dephasing of molecules in the gas phase and in beams, (b) dephasing of high-energy vibrational overtone states of large molecules, and (c) energy randomization and quantum beats in large molecules (anthracene) excited by picosecond pulses and cooled by supersonic jet expansion.
Additional Information
© 1982 American Chemical Society. Received: September 8, 1981. This research was supported, in part, by grants from the National Science Foundation (CHE79-05683 and DMR81-05034). Some portions of this paper have already appeared in other publications. I thank Professor Ph. Kottis and Dr. J.-P Lemaistre for their hospitality at the University of Bordeaux, Talence, France, where parts of this paper were written. Based on a lecture given by A. Zewail in honor of Professor J. O. Hirschfelder at the International Symposium: New Directions for the Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids, Madison, WI, 1981.Additional details
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- CHE79-05683
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- DMR81-05034
- NSF
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
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- Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics
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- 6517