Molecular photon echoes as a signature of vibrational cat states

Holger F. Hofmann; Takao Fuji; Atsushi Sugita; Takayoshi Kobayashi

doi:10.1364/NLO.2000.WB24

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications
OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2000),
paper WB24
•https://doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2000.WB24

Molecular photon echoes as a signature of vibrational cat states

Holger F. Hofmann, Takao Fuji, Atsushi Sugita, and Takayoshi Kobayashi

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications 2000

Kaua'i-Lihue, Hawaii United States
ISBN: 1-55752-645-1

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H. F. Hofmann, T. Fuji, A. Sugita, and T. Kobayashi, "Molecular photon echoes as a signature of vibrational cat states," in Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications, T. Li, ed., Vol. 46 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2000), paper WB24.

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Abstract

Quantum interference between two distinct vibrational trajectories induced by two pulse femtosecond excitation in molecules is shown to result in a photon echo, providing direct evidence of the cat state superposition of Gaussian vibrational wavepackets.

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