This book provides an introduction to optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, a relatively new method of studying materials based on using ultrashort light pulses to perform spectroscopy. The technique has been developed and perfected over the last 25 years, resulting in multiple experimental approaches and applications to a broad array of systems ranging from atoms and molecules to solids and biological systems. Indeed, while this method is most often used by physical chemists, it is also relevant to materials of interest to physicists, which is the primary focus of this book. As well as an introduction to the method, the book also provides tutorials on the interpretation of the rather complex spectra that is broadly applicable across all subfields, and finishes with a survey of several emerging material systems and a discussion of future directions.

This book will fulfill the needs of time-domain spectroscopists who wish to deepen their understanding of both the theoretical and experimental features of this cutting-edge spectroscopy technique. Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS) is a state-of-the-art technique with applications in a variety of subjects like chemistry, molecular physics, biochemistry, biophysics, and material science. Due to dramatic advancements of ultrafast laser technologies, diverse multidimensional spectroscopic methods utilizing combinations of THz, IR, visible, UV, and X-ray radiation sources have been developed and used to study real time dynamics of small molecules in solutions, proteins and nucleic acids in condensed phases and membranes, single and multiple excitons in functional materials like semiconductors, quantum dots, and solar cells, photo-excited states in light-harvesting complexes, ions in battery electrolytes, electronic and conformational changes in charge or proton transfer systems, and excess electrons and protons in water and biological systems.

Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy discusses the principles and applications of newly emerging two-dimensional vibrational and optical spectroscopy techniques. It provides a detailed account of basic theory required for an understanding of two-dimensional vibrational and electronic spectroscopy. It also bridges the gap between the formal developm

A valuable tool for individuals using correlation spectroscopy and those that want to start using this technique. Noda is known as the founder of this technique, and together with Ozaki, they are the two biggest names in the area First book on 2D vibrational and optical spectroscopy - single source of information, pulling together literature papers and reveiws Growing number of applications of this methodology - book now needed for people thinking of using this technique Limitations and benefits discussed and comparisons made with 2D NMR Discusses 20 optical and vibrational spectroscopy (IR, Raman, UV, Visible)

This book discusses many advances in optical physics and is intended mainly for experimentalists. The interaction of electromagnetic radiation with free atoms is introduced using classical or semi-classical calculations wherever possible. Topics discussed include the spontaneous emission of radiation, and atomic beam magnetic resonance experiments.

Reducing the size of a coherently grown semiconductor cluster in all three directions of space to a value below the de Broglie wavelength of a charge carrier leads to complete quantization of the energy levels, density of states, etc. Such “quantum dots” are more similar to giant atoms in a dielectric cage than to classical solids or semiconductors showing a dispersion of energy as a function of wavevector. Their electronic and optical properties depend strongly on their size and shape, i.e. on their geometry. By designing the geometry by controlling the growth of QDs, absolutely novel possibilities for material design leading to novel devices are opened. This multiauthor book written by world-wide recognized leaders of their particular fields and edited by the recipient of the Max-Born Award and Medal 2006 Professor Dieter Bimberg reports on the state of the art of the growing of quantum dots, the theory of self-organised growth, the theory of electronic and excitonic states, optical properties and transport in a variety of materials. It covers the subject from the early work beginning of the 1990s up to 2006. The topics addressed in the book are the focus of research in all leading semiconductor and optoelectronic device laboratories of the world.

"Ultrafast coherent multi-dimensional spectroscopies are a powerful set of techniques used to unravel complex processes. These processes range from electronic coherences in molecular chromophores to many-body interactions in quantum-confined materials. Yet these spectroscopies remain challenging to implement at the high frequencies of vibrational and electronic transitions, thereby limiting their widespread use. The work herein demonstrates three significant methodological improvements of two-dimensional spectroscopy at optical frequencies, followed by applications of the method on two different systems. First, we introduce a hollow-fibre setup for the production of broadband visible pulses. This source is comparatively simple to operate, and yields stable, 45 [mu]J pulses over the 520-700 nm region. Second, we demonstrate the feasibility of two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy in a single beam. By appropriately modulating the phases of the pulses within the beam,we show that it is possible to directly read out the relevant optical signals. This work shows that one needs neither complex beam geometries nor complex detection schemes in order to measure 2D spectra at optical frequencies. Finally, we introducea setup for complete and independent polarization control of each pulse in the sequence. Together, these methodological improvements represent important enabling steps towards the longstanding goal of achieving an "Optical NMR", and extendsthe realm of all-optical multi-dimensional spectroscopies to spatially heterogeneous samples. The methods are applied on two classes of systems. The model system Nile Blue is used to validate the performance of the instrument. The spectrometeris then used to reveal new processes in colloidal semiconductor CdSe nanocrystals, a system of contemporary interest." --