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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Multi-heterodyne two dimensional coherent spectroscopy using frequency combs
Bachana Lomsadze1,2, Steven T Cundiff3,4
1Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA.
Abstract:
Optical multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy is a powerful technique for studying the structure, properties and ultrafast dynamics of atoms, molecules, semiconductor materials and complex systems. Current implementations of multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy have long acquisition times and/or limited spectral resolution. In addition, most of the techniques utilize complex geometries or phase cycling schemes to isolate non-linear signals. We demonstrate a novel approach of using frequency combs to perform rapid, high resolution and background free multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy of semiconductor materials. Our approach is inspired by dual-comb spectroscopy, which has been proven to be a versatile tool for obtaining one dimensional absorption spectra with high resolution in a short acquisition time. We demonstrate the method using a GaAs multi-quantum well sample.
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