Molecular Dynamics Investigated by Temporally Two-Dimensional Coherent Raman Spectroscopy
Author(s) -
Andy T. Y. Lau,
Masahiro Yoshita,
V. Kozich,
A. Kummrow
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
laser chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1026-8014
pISSN - 0278-6273
DOI - 10.1155/1999/41281
Subject(s) - femtosecond , relaxation (psychology) , raman spectroscopy , chemistry , excitation , nitrobenzene , dynamics (music) , phase (matter) , resonance (particle physics) , molecular physics , chemical physics , coherent anti stokes raman spectroscopy , spectroscopy , molecular dynamics , atomic physics , nuclear magnetic resonance , raman scattering , optics , laser , physics , computational chemistry , quantum mechanics , psychology , social psychology , biochemistry , organic chemistry , acoustics , catalysis
A six-wave set-up is described to determine molecular dynamics in the condensed phase.Applying two independent time delays between excitation and probe pulses additionalinformation on the dynamics should be obtainable. We show experimentally that suchinvestigations can be carried out with noisy light having intensity fluctuations in thefemtosecond region. As first result we found a fast relaxation time in neat nitrobenzeneof 100 fs, becoming even faster in mixtures with low viscosity liquids. Switching on aRaman resonance yields a longer relaxation time, which could be explained by anadditional contribution by that vibration.
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