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Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy and Dynamics in Dense Media

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Reactive and Flexible Molecules in Liquids

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Femtosecond laser spectroscopy and nonlinear optical or photophysical measurements up to 100 picoseconds have become a powerful tool to explore dynamics, photophysics, photochemistry and photobiology of molecules in dense media. A review of contempory details of the experimental design concepts in ultrafast pump—probe laser spectroscopy links the observables with the underlying theory, where the currei. limits of time resolution approach a few optical cycles. Selected studies are then outlined to illustrate some of the scientific questions currently being investigated in our research group and several other laser laboratories, whose focus is on the time evolution of dynamical events in dense media.

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Carpenter, K., Kenney-Wallace, G. (1989). Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy and Dynamics in Dense Media. In: Dorfmüller, T. (eds) Reactive and Flexible Molecules in Liquids. NATO ASI Series, vol 291. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1043-0_21

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