Ti:sapphire, broadband vibrational sumfrequency
generation spectrometer with a
counter-propagating geometry

doi:10.1364/OE.17.014665

Ti:sapphire, broadband vibrational sumfrequency generation spectrometer with a counter-propagating geometry

Feng Ding, Qin Zhong, Michael R. Brindza, John T. Fourkas, and Robert A. Walker »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 17, pp. 14665-14675 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.014665

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Abstract

We report the development of a counter-propagating, broadband vibrational sum-frequency generation spectrometer based on a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier. We present simple procedures for aligning the spectrometer and for setting the timing of the IR and visible pulses. We demonstrate that the use of this geometry offers a number of important advantages over a co-propagating geometry, including a high dynamic range, reduced nonresonant background signal at buried interfaces, and minimal beam deviation upon changing samples.

OCIS Codes
(240.4350) Optics at surfaces : Nonlinear optics at surfaces
(300.6490) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, surface
(190.4223) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear wave mixing

ToC Category:
Spectroscopy

History
Original Manuscript: May 21, 2009
Revised Manuscript: July 16, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: July 21, 2009
Published: August 4, 2009

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Feng Ding, Qin Zhong, Michael R. Brindza, John T. Fourkas, and Robert A. Walker, "Ti:sapphire, broadband vibrational sumfrequency generation spectrometer with a counter-propagating geometry," Opt. Express 17, 14665-14675 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-17-14665

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Z. Chen, Y. R. Shen, and G. A. Somorjai, "Studies of polymer surfaces by sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy," Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 53, 437-465 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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W. Gan, D. Wu, Z. Zhang, R. R. Feng, and H. F. Wang, "Polarization and experimental configuration analyses of sum frequency generation vibrational spectra, structure, and orientational motion of the air/water interface," J. Chem. Phys. 124, 114705 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Allen, H. C.
Can, S. Z.
Chen, H.
Chen, Z.
Eisenthal, K. B.
Feng, R. R.
Fourkas, J. T.
Gan, W.
Gershgoren, E.
Gragson, D. E.
Kim, D.
Lu, R.
Miranda, P. B.
Petralli-Mallow, T. P.
Rao, Y.
Richmond, G. L.
Richter, L. J.
Shen, Y. R.
Somorjai, G. A.
Stephenson, J. C.
Tadjeddine, A.
Vidal, F.
Walker, R. A.
Wang, H. F.
Wu, B. H.
Wu, D.
Zhang, Z.
Zhuang, X.

Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem.

Z. Chen, Y. R. Shen, and G. A. Somorjai, "Studies of polymer surfaces by sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy," Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 53, 437-465 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Chem. Rev.

G. L. Richmond, "Molecular bonding and interactions at aqueous surfaces as probed by vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy," Chem. Rev. 102, 2693-2724 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
K. B. Eisenthal, "Liquid interfaces probed by second-harmonic and sum-frequency spectroscopy," Chem. Rev. 96, 1343-1360 (1996). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Int. Rev. Phys. Chem.

H. F. Wang, W. Gan, R. Lu, Y. Rao, and B. H. Wu, "Quantitative spectral and orientational analysis in surface sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS)," Int. Rev. Phys. Chem. 24, 191-256 (2005). [CrossRef]

J. Chem. Phys.

W. Gan, D. Wu, Z. Zhang, R. R. Feng, and H. F. Wang, "Polarization and experimental configuration analyses of sum frequency generation vibrational spectra, structure, and orientational motion of the air/water interface," J. Chem. Phys. 124, 114705 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

J. Phys. Chem. B

H. C. Allen, D. E. Gragson, and G. L. Richmond, "Molecular structure and adsorption of dimethyl sulfoxide at the surface of aqueous solutions," J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 660-666 (1999). [CrossRef]
R. Lu, W. Gan, B. H. Wu, H. Chen, and H. F. Wang, "Vibrational polarization spectroscopy of CH stretching modes of the methylene group at the vapor/liquid interfaces with sum frequency generation," J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 7297-7306 (2004). [CrossRef]

J. Phys. Chem. C

J. T. Fourkas, R. A. Walker, S. Z. Can, and E. Gershgoren, "Effects of reorientation in vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy," J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 8902-8915 (2007). [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

Phys. Rev. B

X. Zhuang, P. B. Miranda, D. Kim, and Y. R. Shen, "Mapping molecular orientation and conformation at interfaces by surface nonlinear optics," Phys. Rev. B 59, 12632-12640 (1999). [CrossRef]

Rep. Prog. Phys.

F. Vidal and A. Tadjeddine, "Sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of interfaces," Rep. Prog. Phys. 68, 1095-1127 (2005). [CrossRef]

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