Abstract
For many years chemical physicists have sought to achieve mode-selective chemistry through laser irradiation. To date, however, attempts at using high-power laser pulses to control molecular reaction pathways have been unsuccessful. The principal limitation to laser mode-selective chemistry seems to be the rapid intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR) associated with anharmonic vibrational couplings at high excitation levels1.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
N. Bloembergen and A.H. Zewail, J. Phys. Chem. 88, 5459 (1984).
H.L. Fragnito, J.-Y. Bigot, P.C. Becker, and C.V. Shank, Chem. Phys. Lett. 160, 101 (1989).
R.A. Mathies, C.H. Brito Cruz, W.T. Pollard, and C.V. Shank, Science 240, 777 (1988).
Y.-X. Yan, L.-T. Cheng, and K.A. Nelson, in Advances in Nonlinear Spectroscopy, (Adv. in Spectrosc. series, v. 16), R.J.H. Clark and R.E. Hester, Eds. (Wiley, Chichester, 1988), pp. 299–355.
S. De Silvestri, J.G. Fujimoto, E.P. Ippen, E.B. Gamble, L.R. Williams, and K.A. Nelson, Chem. Phys. Lett. 116, 146 (1985).
J. Chesnoy and A. Mokhtari, Phys. Rev. A38, 3566 (1988).
F.W. Wise, M.J. Rosker, and C.L. Tang, J. Chem. Phys. 86, 2827 (1986).
N.F. Scherer, C. Sipes, R.B. Bernstein, and A.H. Zewail, J. Chem. Phys. 92, 5239 (1990).
S. Shi, A. Woody, and H. Rabitz, J. Chem. Phys. 88, 6870 (1988).
D.J. Tannor, R. Kosloff, and S.A. Rice, J. Chem. Phys. 85, 5805 (1986); R. Kosloff, S.A. Rice, P. Gaspard, S. Tersigni, and D.J. Tannor, Chem. Phys. 139, 201 (1989).
Y.-X. Yan, E.B. Gamble, and K.A. Nelson, J. Chem. Phys. 83, 5391 (1985).
P. Brumer and M. Shapiro, Chem. Phys. Lett. 126, 541 (1986).
S. Chelkowski, A. Bandrauk, and P.B. Corkum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2355 (1990).
A.M. Weiner, J.P. Heritage, and E.M. Kirschner, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B5, 1563 (1988).
M. Haner and W.S. Warren, Appl. Phys. Lett. 52, 1458 (1988); W.S. Warren, Science 242, 878 (1988).
A.J. Ruggiero, N.F. Scherer, M. Du, and G.R. Fleming, in Ultrafast Phenomena VII, C.B. Harris, E.P. Ippen, G.A. Mourou, and A.H. Zewail, eds., (Springer, Berlin, 1990), p. 334.
A.M. Weiner, D.E. Leaird, G.P. Wiederrecht, and K.A. Nelson, Science 247, 1317 (1990).
A.M. Weiner, D.E. Leaird, G.P. Wiederrecht, and K.A. Nelson, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B8, 1264 (1991).
R.L. Fork, B.I. Greene, and C.V. Shank, Appl. Phys. Lett. 38, 671 (1981); J.A. Valdmanis, R.L. Fork, and J.P. Gordon, Opt. Lett. 10, 131 (1985).
W.H. Knox, M.C. Downer, R.L. Fork, and C.V. Shank, Opt. Lett. 9, 552 (1984).
A.M. Weiner and D.E. Leaird, Opt. Lett. 15, 51 (1990).
A.M. Weiner, J.P. Heritage, R.J. Hawkins, R.N. Thurston, E.M. Kirschner, D.E. Leaird, and W.J. Tomlinson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2445 (1988).
A.M. Weiner, Y. Silberberg, H. Fouckhardt, D.E. Leaird, M.A. Saisi, M.J. Andrejco, and P.W. Smith, IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 25, 2648 (1989).
A.M. Weiner, J.P. Heritage, and J.A. Salehi, Opt. Lett. 13, 300 (1988); J.A. Salehi, A.M. Weiner, and J.P. Heritage, J. Lightwave Technology 8, 478 (1990).
A.M. Weiner, D.E. Leaird, J.S. Patel, and J.R. Wullert, Opt. Lett. 15„ 326 (1990).
D.H. Reitze, A.M. Weiner, and D.E. Leaird, “High-power femtosecond pulse compression using spatial solitons”, Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, Nov. 1991.
J. Tanaka, T. Kishi, and M. Tanaka, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 47, 2376 (1974).
Y.J. Yan and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 94, 997 (1991).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1992 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Weiner, A.M., Leaird, D.E., Wiederrecht, G.P., Nelson, K.A. (1992). Femtosecond Pulse Shaping and Excitation of Molecular Coherences. In: Bandrauk, A.D., Wallace, S.C. (eds) Coherence Phenomena in Atoms and Molecules in Laser Fields. NATO ASI Series, vol 287. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3364-1_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3364-1_26
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4613-6484-9
Online ISBN: 978-1-4615-3364-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive