Optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy /

Aimed at post-doctoral scientists, researchers, and graduate students in physics, this book provides an introduction to optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, a relatively new method of studying materials based on using ultrashort light pulses to perform spectroscopy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Hebin (Author), Lomsadze, Bachana (Author), Moody, Galan (Author), Smallwood, Christopher (Author), Cundiff, Steven T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • titlepage
  • copyright
  • dedication
  • preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of symbols
  • Table of acronyms
  • contents
  • Basics of ultrafast spectroscopy
  • Basics of spectroscopy: linear versus nonlinear
  • Ultrashort pulses
  • Ultrafast nonlinear/coherent spectroscopy
  • The density matrix
  • Bloch sphere representation of quantum states
  • Introduction to multidimensional coherent spectroscopy
  • Concepts of multidimensional coherent spectroscopy
  • Coherent spectroscopy
  • Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy
  • Spectrum classification
  • Density matrix formalism and double-sided Feynman diagrams
  • Interpreting MDCS in the perturbative limit
  • Double-sided Feynman diagrams
  • Measured observables
  • Putting it all together
  • Case study: Two-level system
  • Phase matching
  • Two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy
  • Interpretation of multidimensional coherent spectra
  • Isolated two-level system
  • Inhomogeneously broadened ensemble of two-level systems
  • Gaussian inhomogeneity, constant homogeneous linewidth
  • Large inhomogeneity
  • Coherent coupling signatures
  • Incoherent coupling signatures
  • Doubly excited states and many-body interactions
  • Double-quantum spectra
  • Zero-quantum spectra
  • Three-dimensional coherent spectroscopy
  • Nonrephasing pathways and purely absorptive spectra
  • Finite-pulse effects
  • Mathematical formulations
  • Example spectra
  • Further applications
  • Experimental implementations
  • Experimental requirements and considerations
  • Precision and stability of time delays
  • Isolation of the signal
  • Detection of the signal
  • Overview of experimental approaches
  • Actively stabilized box geometry
  • Phase modulated collinear geometry
  • Comparison of different approaches
  • Data analysis
  • Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy of atomic ensembles
  • Single- and zero-quantum 2D spectra of atomic vapors
  • MDCS in optically thick samples
  • Probing many-body interactions with double-quantum 2D spectroscopy
  • Probing many-body correlations with multi-quantum 2D spectroscopy
  • Frequency comb-based multidimensional coherent spectroscopy
  • Introduction to frequency combs and dual-comb spectroscopy
  • Frequency comb-based four-wave-mixing spectroscopy
  • Frequency comb-based single-quantum 2D spectroscopy
  • Frequency comb-based double-quantum 2D spectroscopy
  • Tri-comb spectroscopy
  • Two-dimensional spectroscopy of semiconductor quantum wells
  • Introduction to semiconductor optics
  • Many-body signatures in one-quantum 2D spectra
  • Many-body signatures in double- and multi-quantum 2D spectra
  • Two-dimensional spectroscopy of coupled quantum wells
  • Quantum well exciton-polaritons in microcavities
  • Three-dimensional coherent spectroscopy
  • Fifth-order 3D infrared spectroscopy
  • Fifth-order 3D electronic spectroscopy
  • Third-order 3D electronic spectroscopy