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Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 884 - 887 (1995)

Experimental Determination of the Quantum-Mechanical State of a Molecular Vibrational Mode Using Fluorescence Tomography

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T. J. Dunn * and I. A. Walmsley
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

S. Mukamel
Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

Received 25 May 1994

We present a spectroscopic method for the complete characterization of the quantum state of the vibrational mode of a molecule in terms of a phase-space quasiprobability distribution. The distribution for a molecular vibrational mode excited by a short optical pulse is reconstructed from measurements of its time-dependent spectrum of fluorescence.


©1995 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.884
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.884
PACS: 32.90.+a, 31.50.+w, 32.60.+i, 42.50.Md

* Present address: Anvik Corporation, 250 Clearbrook Rd., Elmsdorf, NY 10523.

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