The JILA multidimensional optical nonlinear spectrometer (JILA-MONSTR) is a robust, ultrastable platform consisting of nested and folded Michelson interferometers that can be actively phase stabilized. This platform generates a square of identical laser pulses that can be adjusted to have arbitrary time delay between them while maintaining phase stability. The JILA-MONSTR provides output pulses for nonlinear excitation of materials and phase-stabilized reference pulses for heterodyne detection of the induced signal. This arrangement is ideal for performing coherent optical experiments, such as multidimensional Fourier-transform spectroscopy, which records the phase of the nonlinear signal as a function of the time delay between several of the excitation pulses. The resulting multidimensional spectrum is obtained from a Fourier transform. This spectrum can resolve, separate, and isolate coherent contributions to the light-matter interactions associated with electronic excitation at optical frequencies. To show the versatility of the JILA-MONSTR, several demonstrations of two-dimensional Fourier-transform spectroscopy are presented, including an example of a phase-cycling scheme that reduces noise. Also shown is a spectrum that accesses two-quantum coherences, where all excitation pulses require phase locking for detection of the signal.
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July 28 2009
A versatile ultrastable platform for optical multidimensional Fourier-transform spectroscopy
A. D. Bristow;
A. D. Bristow
JILA,
University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology
, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
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D. Karaiskaj;
D. Karaiskaj
JILA,
University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology
, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
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X. Dai;
X. Dai
JILA,
University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology
, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
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T. Zhang;
T. Zhang
JILA,
University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology
, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
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C. Carlsson;
C. Carlsson
JILA,
University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology
, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
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K. R. Hagen;
K. R. Hagen
JILA,
University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology
, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
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R. Jimenez;
R. Jimenez
JILA,
University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology
, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
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S. T. Cundiff
JILA,
University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology
, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
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Electronic mail: cundiffs@jila.colorado.edu.
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 073108 (2009)
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Received:
May 06 2009
Accepted:
June 30 2009
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A. D. Bristow, D. Karaiskaj, X. Dai, T. Zhang, C. Carlsson, K. R. Hagen, R. Jimenez, S. T. Cundiff; A versatile ultrastable platform for optical multidimensional Fourier-transform spectroscopy. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 1 July 2009; 80 (7): 073108. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3184103
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