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Marčiulionytė V, Reggui K, Tamošauskas G, Dubietis A. KGW and YVO 4: two excellent nonlinear materials for high repetition rate infrared supercontinuum generation. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:20377-20386. [PMID: 37381433 DOI: 10.1364/oe.489474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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We present an experimental investigation of supercontinuum generation in potassium gadolinium tungstate (KGW) and yttrium vanadate (YVO4) crystals pumped with 210 fs, 1030 nm pulses from an amplified Yb:KGW laser operating at 2 MHz repetition rate. We demonstrate that compared to commonly used sapphire and YAG, these materials possess considerably lower supercontinuum generation thresholds, produce remarkable red-shifted spectral broadenings (up to 1700 nm in YVO4 and up to 1900 nm in KGW) and exhibit less bulk heating due to energy deposition during filamentation process. Moreover, durable damage-free performance was observed without any translation of the sample, suggesting that KGW and YVO4 are excellent nonlinear materials for high repetition rate supercontinuum generation in the near and short-wave infrared spectral range.
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Irgen-Gioro S, Gururangan K, Spencer AP, Harel E. Non-Uniform Excited State Electronic-Vibrational Coupling of Pigment-Protein Complexes. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:10388-10395. [PMID: 33238100 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Photosynthetic organisms exploit interacting quantum degrees of freedom, namely intrapigment electron-vibrational (vibronic) and interpigment dipolar couplings (J-coupling), to rapidly and efficiently convert light into chemical energy. These interactions result in wave function configurations that delocalize excitation between pigments and pigment vibrations. Our study uses multidimensional spectroscopy to compare two model photosynthetic proteins, the Fenna-Matthews Olson (FMO) complex and light harvesting 2 (LH2), and confirm that long-lived excited state coherences originate from the vibrational modes of the pigment. Within this framework, the J-coupling of vibronic pigments should have a cascading effect in modifying the structured spectral density of excitonic states. We show that FMO effectively couples all of its excitations to a uniform set of vibrations while in LH2, its two chromophore rings each couple to a unique vibrational environment. We simulate energy transfer in a simple model system with non-uniform vibrational coupling to demonstrate how modification of the vibronic coupling strength can modulate energy transfer. Because increasing vibronic coupling increases internal relaxation, strongly coupled vibronic states can act as an energy funnel, which can potentially benefit energy transport.
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- Shawn Irgen-Gioro
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Puppin M, Deng Y, Nicholson CW, Feldl J, Schröter NBM, Vita H, Kirchmann PS, Monney C, Rettig L, Wolf M, Ernstorfer R. Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of solids in the extreme ultraviolet at 500 kHz repetition rate. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2019; 90:023104. [PMID: 30831759 DOI: 10.1063/1.5081938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (trARPES) employing a 500 kHz extreme-ultraviolet light source operating at 21.7 eV probe photon energy is reported. Based on a high-power ytterbium laser, optical parametric chirped pulse amplification, and ultraviolet-driven high-harmonic generation, the light source produces an isolated high-harmonic with 110 meV bandwidth and a flux of more than 1011 photons/s on the sample. Combined with a state-of-the-art ARPES chamber, this table-top experiment allows high-repetition rate pump-probe experiments of electron dynamics in occupied and normally unoccupied (excited) states in the entire Brillouin zone and with a temporal system response function below 40 fs.
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Roland T, Kemlin V, Nillon J, Pellé JS, Crégutt O, Brazard J, Léonard J, Haacke S. BOXCARS-geometry 2DES setup in the 300-340nm range with pulse-to-pulse phase correction at 50kHz. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201920501009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A 40-nm broad pulse centred at 320nm is produced from an amplified Yb-doped fiber laser operated at 50kHz, and used in a BOXCARS geometry setup for 2DES, with shot-to-shot monitoring of the relative optical phase stability.
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Ultrafast Mid-IR Laser Pulses Generation via Chirp Manipulated Optical Parametric Amplification. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/app8050744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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