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Sterling, M., Zadoyan, R., Apkarian, V. A. |
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Journal of Chemical Physics; 5/1/1996, Vol. 104 Issue 17, p6497, 10p, 1 Chart, 9 Graphs |
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The effect of linearly chirped pulses in condensed phase ultrafast pump–probe experiments is investigated by classical simulations for the model system of I2 isolated in a Kr matrix. The central frequency of the probe laser is selected to monitor exclusively the event of first collision and recoil of atoms from the host cage. It is shown that a chirped probe pulse enables characterization of the magnitude and sign of the momentum of the evolving trajectory flux. This can be understood by transforming the frequency–time profile of the probe pulse to coordinate–time space, and noting that the observable signal is a function of the relative group velocities of the traveling wave packet and the traveling window function. The effect of the pump pulse chirp, is a measure of the controllability of the evolving dynamics. In the particular case studied, breaking and remaking of the I2 bond near the dissociation limit of the bare molecule, it is shown that the memory of the system outlasts the collision with the cage. Negatively chirped pulses produce a more tightly focused wave packet during recoil, leading to a stronger population coherence in the subsequent dynamics. © 1996 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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