title: Ultrabroadband femtosecond two-dimensional ultraviolet transient absorption.
abstract: We present a broadband two-dimensional transient absorption setup for the UV around 300 nm with a time resolution of 150 fs. A narrowband, frequency tunable pump pulse and a broadband probe pulse are generated from the output of a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier operated at 20 kHz repetition rate and combined in a spectrally resolved transient absorption experiment. The high repetition rate and low noise of the setup allow us to acquire high quality two-dimensional data as a function of time delay with an unsurpassed frequency window of 10,000 and 8000  cm(-1) along the probe and pump axis, respectively. The performance of the setup is demonstrated on 2,5-Diphenyloxazol dissolved in cyclohexane.
authors: Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. gerald.aubock@epfl.ch
authors: Gerald
authors: G
authors: Auböck
authors: Cristina
authors: C
authors: Consani
authors: Frank
authors: F
authors: van Mourik
authors: Majed
authors: M
authors: Chergui