Manipulating Impulsive Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy with a Chirped Probe Pulse.
Photophysical and photochemical processes are often dominated by molecular vibrations in various electronic states. Dissecting the corresponding, often overlapping, spectroscopic signals from different electronic states is a challenge hampering their interpretation. Here we address impulsive stimulated Raman spectroscopy (ISRS), a powerful technique able to coherently stimulate and record Raman-active modes using broadband pulses. Using a quantum-mechanical treatment of the ISRS process, we show the mode-specific way the various spectral components of the broadband probe contribute to the signal generated at a given wavelength. We experimentally demonstrate how to manipulate the signal by varying the probe chirp and the phase-matching across the sample, thereby affecting the relative phase between the various contributions to the signal. These novel control knobs allow us to selectively enhance desired vibrational features and distinguish spectral components arising from different excited states.
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy.
Lorenzo
L
Monacelli
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy.|Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Universitá degli Studi dell'Aquila , L'Aquila I-67100, Italy.
Giovanni
G
Batignani
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy.|Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l'Ingegneria, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy.
Giuseppe
G
Fumero
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy.
Carino
C
Ferrante
Department of Chemistry, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States.
Shaul
S
Mukamel
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy.|Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Life Nano Science @Sapienza , Roma I-00161, Italy.
Tullio
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-4262
T
Scopigno