Abstract
A fully reflective two-dimensional IR (2D-IR) setup is described that enables efficient cancellation of scattered light from multiple pulses in the phase-matched direction. The local oscillator pulse and the pulse that stimulates the vibrational echo signal are synchronously modulated (or fibrillated) in time maintaining their phase relationships with the echo wavepacket. The modification is cost-effective and can be easily implemented on existing 2D-IR instruments, and it avoids the addition of dispersive elements into the beam paths. The fibrillation results in a decrease of waiting-time resolution of only tens of femtoseconds and has no impact on the spectral lineshape, making it a general improvement for 2D-IR spectrometers even for weakly or non-scattering samples.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1850-1852 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Optics Letters |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Number CHE-0847356. I. C. A. was supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) (00039202).
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© 2015 Optical Society of America.