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Pump-Probe Experiments with a Single Molecule: ac-Stark Effect and Nonlinear Optical Response.
Philippe Tamarat,Brahim Lounis,J.-P. Bernard,Michel Orrit,S. Kummer,R. Kettner,S. Mais,Th. Basché +7 more
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In this article, the ac-Stark effect on terrylene molecules in $p$-terphenyl crystals at superfluid helium temperatures was measured, i.e., proportional to the pump intensity and to the inverse pump detuning.Abstract:
We have measured the ac-Stark effect on single terrylene molecules in $p$-terphenyl crystals at superfluid helium temperatures. With the pump beam far enough from resonance, the molecular transition shifts as expected, i.e., proportional to the pump intensity and to the inverse pump detuning. Experiments closer to resonance with stronger beams show Autler-Townes-like structures that can be well reproduced by means of Bloch equations with two intense laser fields. These experiments are a demonstration of nonlinear optical effects with the localized electronic states of a single molecule trapped in a solid.read more
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Illuminating single molecules in condensed matter.
W. E. Moerner,Michel Orrit +1 more
TL;DR: Efficient collection and detection of fluorescence coupled with careful minimization of background from impurities and Raman scattering now enable routine optical microscopy and study of single molecules in complex condensed matter environments.
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Ten Years of Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
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Efficient coupling of photons to a single molecule and the observation of its resonance fluorescence
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Single-molecule spectroscopy
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A Dozen Years of Single-Molecule Spectroscopy in Physics, Chemistry, and Biophysics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review single-molecule spectroscopy experiments of the Moerner group, both at liquid helium temperatures and at room temperature, in the areas of physical chemistry, quantum optics, and biophysics.
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