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Femtosecond control of an elementary unimolecular reaction from the transition-state region
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In this paper, a femtosecond control pulse intercepts the predissociative system at a fixed time and internuclear separation, both determined by the "window" of the laser pulse.About:
This article is published in Chemical Physics Letters.The article was published on 1994-09-30. It has received 105 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Femtosecond & Reaction dynamics.read more
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Control of Chemical Reactions by Feedback-Optimized Phase-Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses
TL;DR: Tailored femtosecond laser pulses from a computer-controlled pulse shaper were used to optimize the branching ratios of different organometallic photodissociation reaction channels, showing that two different bond-cleaving reactions can be selected, resulting in chemically different products.
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Control of quantum phenomena: past, present and future
TL;DR: Adaptive feedback control (AFC) as mentioned in this paper is a state-of-the-art technique for quantum control. But it is not suitable for the case of femtosecond laser sources.
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Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy.
TL;DR: Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is a new ultrafast spectroscopic technique that provides vibrational structural information with high temporal (50-fs) and spectral (10-cm(1)) resolution as mentioned in this paper.
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Feedback quantum control of molecular electronic population transfer
Christopher J. Bardeen,Vladislav V. Yakovlev,Kent R. Wilson,Scott D. Carpenter,Peter M. Weber,Warren S. Warren +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a computer-controlled acousto-optic pulse shaper and a genetic algorithm were used to optimize population transfer from ground to first excited state in a molecular system.
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Direct Observation of the Transition State
John Polanyi,Ahmed H. Zewail +1 more
TL;DR: The transition state is neither one thing, namely, chemical reagents, nor the other, reaction products, and it illustrates the mystical event of trans-substantiation as discussed by the authors. But the transition state can also be interpreted as a sign of the end of a process.
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Fluorescence-detected wave packet interferometry: Time resolved molecular spectroscopy with sequences of femtosecond phase-locked pulses
Norbert F. Scherer,Roger J. Carlson,Alexander Matro,Mei Du,A. J. Ruggiero,Víctor Romero-Rochín,Jeffrey A. Cina,Graham R. Fleming,Stuart A. Rice +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a two-pulse sequence of femtosecond duration phase-locked optical laser pulses is used to resonantly excite vibronic transitions of a molecule, where a definite optical phase angle between the pulses is maintained while varying the interpulse delay with interferometric precision.
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Femtosecond Pulse Sequences Used for Optical Manipulation of Molecular Motion
TL;DR: Optical control over elementary molecular motion is enhanced with timed sequences of femtosecond pulses produced by pulse-shaping techniques, analogous to repetitively pushing a child on a swing with appropriate timing to build up a large oscillation amplitude.
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Femtosecond real‐time observation of wave packet oscillations (resonance) in dissociation reactions
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Coherent Pulse Sequence Control of Product Formation in Chemical Reactions
David J. Tannor,Stuart A. Rice +1 more
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Femtosecond real-time probing of reactions. IV. The reactions of alkali halides
TL;DR: In this article, the femtosecond transition-state spectroscopy (FTS) was used to explore the photodissociation dynamics of some alkali halides via the method of FTS.
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