Some features of coherent optical effects in large molecules

Joshua Jortner*, Jan Kommandeur

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Abstract

In this paper we present a theoretical study of coherent optical effects such as optical free induction decay (OFID) and photon echoes (PE) from an ensemble of collision-free large molecules. We have introduced a generalized effective hamiltonian to account for the temporal characteristics of the macroscopic polarization. Explicit results have been obtained for the OFID and PE under short-time on-resonance optical pulsed excitation elucidating the nature of phase destruction effects originating from intramolecular interstate and intrastate coupling and from inhomogeneous broadening effects.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)273-283
Number of pages11
JournalChemical Physics
Volume28
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 1978

Funding

FundersFunder number
Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research
ZWO-SON

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