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Ultrafast techniques
•Laser systems• Ti:Saph oscillator/regen, modelocking• NOPA’s
•Pump-probe absorption difference spectroscopy• Two-color• Dispersed detection
• Fluorescence spectrosopy• Photon counting • Streak Camera imaging• Upconversion
• Nanosecond time scale, FTIR
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Elementary Reactions in Biology
Reactant
Product
Free Energy
Configuration
Diffusive motion On ground statePotential well (ms)
h
Ballistic motion on excited state potential (fs-ps)
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Lasers
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission Radiation:
•Population inversion•Cavity•Gain medium -> Titanium:sapphire
Single mode, CW laser Many modes with phase relation leads to a pulse in the cavity
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Cavity
Leaky mirror
Pump laser
For Ti:sapphire oscillatorsλ = 800 nm,Rep. rate = 80 MHzLow power ~10 nJPulses can be as short as ~10 fs
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Amplify from nanoJ to milliJoules -> peak power 20 fs pulse if focussed to 100 micrometer = 1012W/cm-2 =1000 times damage treshold most materials!
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Regenerative amplifier
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n(I) = n0 + n2I + ….
The electrical laser field is
E(x,t) = E(t)cos(ωt-kx)
φ = ωt-kx = ωt – ωnx/c = ω(t-n0z/c) – n2 ωz/cI(t)
ω = dφ/dt = ω – A dI/dt
White light generationby Self Phase Modulation
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Parametric generation or amplification
The splitting of one photon in two:ωpump = ωsignal + ωidler
Conservation of momentum:kpump = ksignal +kidler
This can be done in nonlinear, birefringent crystals were the index of refraction depends on the polarization
ω1+ω2
ω1
ω2
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Noncollinear optical parametric amplification
• When using a non-collinear phase matching angle in BBO pumped at 400 nm, the phase matching angle becomes independent of wavelength over a large part of the spectrum, for an angle of 3.7o between pump and signal (Gale,Hache 1994) large bandwidth
• The spatial walk-off (from the extraordinary pump beam) is 4.0o, with Pp farther from optical axis than kp. This is coincidently close to the noncollinear angle high gain
• Sub-10 fs with μJ energies can be obtained (efficiency 10-30%)
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optic axis
signal angle
ks
kp
ki
idler angle
α
Optimize bandwidth by matching the signal and idler group velocities (=degeneracy for collinear beams):
VS = VI cosΩ
Expressed in terms of α and θ and solved for large bandwidths, one finds α = 3.7o and θ = 32o
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Tune by
• changing delay since white light is dispersed
• phase matching angle and noncollinear angle
Shorter pulses by •minimizing dispersion of white light (no dispersive optics)•or even lengthening pump pulse•optimal compression (small apex angle prisms or gratings)
400 nm pump
white light seed
~6.4o
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NOPA
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Amplified Ti:Sapphire Laser0.5mJ50 fs1khz
NOPA
+Sapphire
+
OpticalDelayLine
Moving cell
Grating
Diode Array
1 m= 3 fs
Oscillator-stretcher-amplifier-compressor
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Amplified Ti:Sapphire Laser
NOPA
+
OpticalDelayLine
Moving cell
1 m= 3 fs
photodiode
OPA
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The instrument response functionThe cross- or auto correlationis given by
1
7.234003 103
puls t( )
200200 t200 0 200
0.5
1
0.999999
1.252241 106
A x( )
300300 x400 200 0 200 400
0
0.5
1
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Stimulated emission
Excited stateaborption
Ground state
ES 1
ES 2
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Ground State Absorption
Excited State Absorption
Difference Absorption Spectrum: A(t)-A(t=0)
Aor
A
Stimulated Emission
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Protochlorophyllide Oxido Reductase
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Ultrafast Spectral Evolution in POR
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Important experimental aspects:
• Repetition rate of laser must be slower than photocycle, or samplemust be refreshed for every shot
• Excitation density must be low, only when less than 10% ofcomplexes are excited you are in a linear regime -> annihilation,saturation due to stimulated emission, orientational saturation
• Population dynamics are measured under the ‘magic’ angle54.7o, at other angles orientational dynamics are measuredanisotropy = r = (ΔDOD// -ΔDOD) / (ΔOD// + 2ΔOD)
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The probability to excitea complex is ~ (E.μ)2
Since E2 ~ I ~ n, n(Θ) = n cos2 Θ
Saturation
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Pump
Probe
t
I||
I
1cos32.0
2)(
2
||
||
t
II
IItr
Time-Resolved Polarized Absorption
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Anisotropy:
0 500 1000 1500 2000 25000.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
exc.
= 880nm
855 nm 865 nm 890 nm
An
isot
rop
y
Delay time (fs)
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Pu Pu Pr
t1
Time to absorb a photon, either determined by pulse length of pump, or by the dephasing time of the optical coherence i.e. ђ/absorption bandwidth
A third order polarization is inducedP(3)(w,t) ~ Χ3EprE*puEpu
This nonlinear polarization is the source of a new generated field (Maxwell equation + slowly varying envelop give)
|)(||)(| tPtPt ss
),()(
2),( tzP
cnitzE
z j
j
Stimulated emission
Pump-probe spectroscopy is a self-heterodyned third order spectroscopy:
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Heterodyne detection, observation of superposition of ‘local oscillator’ field (= probe field) and signal field:
I(t) = n(ωs)c/4π |Elo(t) + Es(t)|2 = ILO(t) + IS(t) + 2 n(ωs)c/4π Re[E*LO(t).ES(t)]
And solve to get
Here is used that Im[E*j(t)P(t)= |E(t)|2Im[P(t)/E(t)]
The probe absorption is related to the out-of-phase component of the polarizationSignal is quadratic in both pump and probe field: S~|Epu|2.|Epr|2
And linear rather than quadratic in the weak nonlinear polarization P
absorption coefficient
),()(
2),( tzP
cnitzE
z j
j
),(/),(Im[)(
4tzEtzP
cnI
z
Ijj
j
j
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Ground State Absorption
Excited State Absorption
Difference Absorption Spectrum: A(t)-A(t=0)
Aor
A
Stimulated Emission
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Fluorescence techniquesI. Photon Counting
LaserSpontaneous emission
Monochromatoror filter
photomultiplier
start
stopTime to
amplitude converter
Instrument response~30-50 psHigh sensitivity, thoughmostly used with highrep rate systems, >100 KHz
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II. Streak Camera Fluorescence
Time resolution ~3 psWhole spectrum at onceModerate sensitivity
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III Fluorescence Upconversion
LaserSpontaneous emission
Very thin BBO crystal ~50 m
ωlaser+ωsignal
1 m= 3 fsMonochromator
detector
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‘Slow’ Absorption difference spectroscopy
• Fast detector• Relatively more probe light than in a fs-ps experiment, actinic??
Lamp sample
Ns laserpulse
Monochromator
Photomultiplieror photodiode
ΔOD
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Step-scan FTIR
Lamp
IR detectorMCT
3000 10002000Cm-1
FFT
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