Preface |
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1 Control of Radiationless Transitions |
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2 Adiabatic and Diabatic Transitions |
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3 | (9) |
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2.1 Breakdown of the BO approximation |
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2.2 Conical intersections and seams |
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12 | (2) |
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4 Optical Control in Weak Fields |
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14 | (12) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (4) |
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4.3 Weak field coherent control of radiationless transitions |
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19 | (4) |
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4.4 Coherent control via overlapping resonances |
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23 | (3) |
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5 Optical Control at Intermediate Field Strengths |
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26 | (6) |
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6 Optical Control in Strong Fields |
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32 | (9) |
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7 Coherent versus Incoherent Control in Liquids |
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41 | (4) |
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45 | (10) |
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49 | (1) |
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49 | (6) |
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2 Optimal Control Approaches for Aligning/Orienting Linear Molecules |
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55 | (42) |
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55 | (7) |
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1.1 Field-free molecular alignment control |
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58 | (1) |
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1.2 Field-free molecular orientation control |
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59 | (3) |
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2 Optimal Control Simulation with Nonlinear Interactions |
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62 | (14) |
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63 | (1) |
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2.2 Optimal control simulation in wave function formalism |
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64 | (3) |
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2.3 Inclusion of polarization effects |
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67 | (2) |
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2.4 Introducing instantaneous penalty |
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69 | (1) |
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2.5 Optimal control simulation in finite-temperature cases (density operator formalism) |
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70 | (3) |
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2.6 Two-color excitation schemes for molecular orientation control |
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2.6.1 Phase-locked two-color laser pulse |
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2.6.2 Combination of THz and laser pulses |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (13) |
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3.1 Alignment control in the low-temperature limit |
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76 | (4) |
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3.2 Orientation control by using phase-locked two-color laser pulses |
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80 | (4) |
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3.3 Orientation control with a combination of THz and laser pulses at finite temperature |
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84 | (5) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (7) |
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91 | (1) |
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91 | (6) |
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3 Femtosecond Laser-Induced Coulomb Explosion Imaging |
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97 | (58) |
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97 | (3) |
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2 Strong Field Ionization and Laser Assisted Coulomb Explosion |
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100 | (5) |
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2.1 Theoretical considerations |
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100 | (2) |
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2.2 Recent experimental studies |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (11) |
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3.2 Time of flight (TOF) spectrometer |
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3.3 Data reduction and coincidence identification |
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108 | (1) |
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3.3.1 General analysis technique |
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109 | (1) |
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3.3.2 Coincidence technique |
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110 | (2) |
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3.3.4 Momentum filtering in coincidence identification |
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4 Ionization and Dissociation Dynamics of CO2 |
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4.1 Coulomb explosion of CO2 |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (5) |
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4.3 Molecular structure reconstruction and theoretical calculations |
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4.4 Dalitz and Newton plots |
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127 | (4) |
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5 Ionization and Dissociation Dynamics of N2O and OCS |
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131 | (17) |
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5.1 N2O under femtosecond laser radiation |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (4) |
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5.1.3 Kinetic energy release |
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137 | (3) |
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5.2 Ionization and dissociation dynamics of OCS |
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140 | (5) |
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5.2.1 Imaging control of dissociation processes using FEMPULS |
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145 | (3) |
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6 Conclusions and Future Prospects |
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148 | (7) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (6) |
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4 Development of Ultrashort Pulse Lasers and their Applications to Ultrafast Spectroscopy in the Visible and NIR Ranges |
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155 | (56) |
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1 Generation of 5-fs Visible Pulses form a Non-collinear Optical Parametric Amplifier |
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156 | (23) |
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1.1 Basics of ultrashort pulse generation by a non-collinear parametric amplifier |
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156 | (1) |
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1.1.1 Nonlinear optical processes and nonlinear susceptibilities |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (4) |
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1.2 Broad band condition for phase-matching in type-I BBO crystal |
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1.3 Type-I phase-matching condition in BBO crystal |
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165 | (3) |
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1.4 Optical parametric fluorescence |
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1.5 Parametric gain spectrum |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (4) |
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1.7.2 Pump-probe experimental setup |
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177 | (2) |
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2 Spectral Oscillation Observed in Optical Frequency Resolved Quantum-beat Spectroscopy with a 6-fs Laser |
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179 | (17) |
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2.1 Introduction basics of quantum beat spectroscopy |
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2.1.1 Quantum-beat spectroscopy |
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2.1.2 Vibrational quantum beat spectroscopy |
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2.1.3 Amplitudes and phases of optical field and molecular vibration |
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184 | (2) |
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2.1.4 Principal of real-time vibrational spectroscopy |
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186 | (3) |
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189 | (1) |
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2.2.2 Ultrashort pulse laser system |
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190 | (1) |
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2.3 Coupling of optical field with coherent vibrational modes in molecules |
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191 | (1) |
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2.3.1 A-type and V-type interactions |
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191 | (2) |
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2.3.2 Coherent molecular vibration modes interaction with ultrashort pulses |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (6) |
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3.1.2 2D difference absorption spectrum and the Fourier power spectrum |
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3.2 Analysis and discussion |
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3.2.1 Probe photon energy dependence of the Fourier power |
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198 | (2) |
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3.2.2 Origins of the Fourier power spectrum depending on the probe photon energy |
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200 | (2) |
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202 | (9) |
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204 | (1) |
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204 | (7) |
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5 Nonlinear Optical Properties in Molecular Systems with Non-Zero Permanent Dipole Moments in Four-Wave Mixing under Stochastic Considerations |
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211 | (38) |
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212 | (1) |
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2 Theoretical Considerations |
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213 | (2) |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (6) |
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222 | (3) |
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6 Nonlinear Macroscopic Polarization |
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225 | (9) |
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234 | (15) |
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244 | (3) |
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247 | (1) |
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Index |
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