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Study of Irreversible Processes in Condensed Matter by Nonlinear Time and Space Resolved Techniques

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The propagation, storage and redistribution of excitations in condensed matter underlie many fundamental processes there. For processes related to the dynamics and relaxation of excitations in the molecular or atomic level the optical techniques that exploit the different features of the lasers, in particular their high selectivity and resolution, in frequency or time domain, have provided a unique wealth of information and constitute the most powerful tools that we have presently at hand to selectively investigate these processes. This information is essential for both fundamental and technological reasons since the relaxation processes constitute the central problem for understandings1 the irreversible processes in general and also set in particular the ultimate limits for the implementation and exploitation of several optical processes in devices. Many of these techniques have reached a very high degree of technical sophistication and others are still under assessment.

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Flytzanis, C. (1993). Study of Irreversible Processes in Condensed Matter by Nonlinear Time and Space Resolved Techniques. In: Bron, W.E. (eds) Ultrashort Processes in Condensed Matter. NATO ASI Series, vol 314. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2954-5_8

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