Volume 153, 2011

Coherently-controlled two-dimensional spectroscopy: Evidence for phase induced long-lived memory effects

Abstract

Using low-intensity phase-shaped excitation pulses we used two-dimensional (2D) electronic spectroscopy to follow the time dependence of the coherent correlations imposed on a solvated organic dye (Rhodamine 101 in methanol) at room temperature. Shaping of the excitation pulses strongly affects both the real and imaginary parts of the 2D-spectra, especially at small waiting times. In particular, the periodic phase modulation of the excitation pulses appears as a two-dimensional grid-like modulation in the correlation spectrum corresponding to the waiting time T = 0. By increasing the waiting time, this modulation quickly disappears in ωt space. However, it is still present in ωτ space even at very long waiting times (≥80 ps) where the inhomogeneous broadening is significantly reduced, and reaches its stationary value of ∼16%. The resonant nature of this induced modulation at long waiting time allows us to conclude that phase shaping of the excitation induces a long-lived memory in solvated organic dyes that is associated with coherent population transfer.

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 May 2011
Accepted
25 May 2011
First published
09 Sep 2011

Faraday Discuss., 2011,153, 27-39

Coherently-controlled two-dimensional spectroscopy: Evidence for phase induced long-lived memory effects

V. I. Prokhorenko, A. Halpin and R. J. D. Miller, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 27 DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00095K

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