Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy. Instructor: Prof. Anindya Datta, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay. The course introduces students to laser spectroscopy, with an emphasis on ultrafast spectroscopy.
1610 years, 11 months
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It deals with fundamentals of instrumentation, data analysis and contemporary research in the field. The syllabus is as follows: Basics. Electronic absorption, fluorescence and phosphorescence. Fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes. Solvent effects. FRET, fluorescence anisotropy. Tools. Fundamentals of instrumentation. Photon counting vs. analog detection. Time correlated single photon counting, Fluorescence upconversion, Transient absorption, Stimulated Raman spectroscopy. Temperature and pH jump experiments. Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy.Applications. Ultrafast dynamics of the chemical bond, Solvation dynamics, Ultrafast dynamics of aqueous systems, Photoisomerization, Light harvesting antennae, Protein folding, Time resolved spectroscopic techniques in DNA sequencing, Ultrafast dynamics in nanomaterials and other novel fluorophores, Photoinduced electron transfer dynamics in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. Time and space resolved spectroscopy of perovskites. (from nptel.ac.in)
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Introduction to Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Steady State Spectra Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – Spectrophotometer Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – How to Record Absorption and Emission Spectra Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – Excited State Processes Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – TCSPC for Picosecond-Nanosecond Time Domain Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – TCSPC for Picosecond-Nanosecond Time Domain (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – TCSPC Lab Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Data Fitting Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Data Fitting (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Femtosecond Fluorescence Upconversion 1 Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – Femtosecond Fluorescence Upconversion 2 Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – Femtosecond Fluorescence Upconversion 3 Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – FOG Lab Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – Gate Detectors and Streak Camera (Part 1) Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – Gate Detectors and Streak Camera (Part 2) Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – Stimulated Emission Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – Two Level System Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – 3 and 4 Level System Unlimited
- Lecture 19 – From CW to Pulsed Laser Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – Longitudinal Modes Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – Modelocking for Short Pulses Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – Modelocking for Short Pulses (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – Kerr Lens Modelocking for Femtosecond Pulses Unlimited
- Lecture 24 – Titanium Sapphire Lasers Unlimited
- Lecture 25 – Active and Passive Modelocking Unlimited
- Lecture 26 – Modelocking and Cavity Damping Unlimited
- Lecture 27 – Ti:Sapphire Laser (Lab Visit) Unlimited
- Lecture 28 – Cavity Dumping Unlimited
- Lecture 29 – Cavity Dumping (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 30 – Q-Switching Unlimited
- Lecture 31 – Stretching and Compressing Ultrafast Laser Pulses Unlimited
- Lecture 32 – Pulse Stretcher/Compressor: Single Grating Unlimited
- Lecture 33 – Chirped Pulse Amplification Unlimited
- Lecture 34 – Oscillators and Amplification: Designs and Materials Unlimited
- Lecture 35 – Alexandrite and Fibril Lasers Unlimited
- Lecture 36 – Regenerative Amplifier in Our Lab Unlimited
- Lecture 37 – Brief Overview of Nonlinear Optical Phenomena Unlimited
- Lecture 38 – Brief Overview of Nonlinear Optical Phenomena (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 39 – Brief Overview of Nonlinear Optical Phenomena (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 40 – SFG and SHG with Ultrafast Pulses Unlimited
- Lecture 41 – SFG and SHG with Ultrafast Pulses (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 42 – Optical Parametric Generation and Amplification Unlimited
- Lecture 43 – OPA in Our Lab TOPAS C, Part 1 Unlimited
- Lecture 44 – OPA in Our Lab TOPAS C, Part 2 Unlimited
- Lecture 45 – OPA in Our Lab TOPAS C, Part 3 Unlimited
- Lecture 46 – Snapshots of Bond Breaking Unlimited
- Lecture 47 – Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer (Part 1) Unlimited
- Lecture 47 – Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer (Part 2) Unlimited
- Lecture 48 – Solvation Dynamics Unlimited
- Lecture 49 – Solvation Dynamics (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 50 – Vibrational Energy Transfer in Water Unlimited
- Lecture 51 – Excited State Proton Transfer: Introduction Unlimited
- Lecture 52 – Excited State Double Proton Transfer of 7-Azaindole Dimer Unlimited
- Lecture 53 – Excited State Double Proton Transfer of 7-Azaindole Dimer (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 54 – Excited State Double Proton Transfer of 7-Azaindole Dimer (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 55 – Plasmonic Nanoparticles Unlimited
- Lecture 56 – Plasmonic Nanoparticles (cont.) Unlimited
