Shaped and Feedback-Controlled Excitation of Single Molecules in the Weak-Field Limit
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- 作者：Alexander Weigel ; Aleksandar Sebesta ; Philipp Kukura
- 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：October 15, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：6
- 期：20
- 页码：4032-4037
- 全文大小：349K
- ISSN：1948-7185
文摘
Coherent control uses tailored femtosecond pulse shapes to influence quantum pathways and drive a light-induced process toward a specific outcome. There has been a long-standing debate whether the absorption properties or the probability for population to remain in an excited state of a molecule can be influenced by the pulse shape, even if only a single photon is absorbed. Most such experiments are performed on many molecules simultaneously, so that ensemble averaging reduces the access to quantum effects. Here, we demonstrate systematic coherent control experiments on the fluorescence intensity of a single molecule in the weak-field limit. We demonstrate that a delay scan of interfering pulses reproduces the excitation spectrum of the molecule upon Fourier transformation, but that the spectral phase of a pulse sequence does not affect the transition probability. We generalize this result to arbitrary pulse shapes by performing the first closed-loop coherent control experiments on a single molecule.