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diff --git a/abstract.tex b/abstract.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd08aa0 --- /dev/null +++ b/abstract.tex @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +% graduate school requirement: less than 350 words + +\chapter*{Abstract} +\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract} + +Coherent multidimensional spectroscopy (CMDS) encompasses a family of experimental strategies +involving the nonlinear interaction between electric fields and a material under investigation. % +This approach has several unique capabilities: 1. resolving congested states [CITE KLUG], 2. +extracting spectra that would otherwise be selection-rule disslowed [CITE BOYLE], 3. resolving +fully coherent dyanmics [CITE], 4. measuring coupling [CITE], and 5. resolving ultrafast dynamics +[CITE]. % + +CMDS can be collected in the frequency or the time domain, and each approach has advantages and +disadvantages. % +Frequency domain ``Multi-resonant'' CMDS (MR-CMDS) requires pulsed ultrafast light sources with +tunable output frequencies. % +These frequency-tunable pulses are directed into a material under investigation. % +The pulses interact with the material, and due to the specific interference between the multiple +fields the material is driven to emit a new pulse: the MR-CMDS signal. % +This new pulse may be different in frequency from the input pulses, and it may travel in a new +direction depending on the exact experiment being performed. % +The MR-CMDS experiment involves tracking the intensity of this output signal as a function of +different properties of the excitation pulses. % +These properties include 1. frequency 2. relative arrival time and separation (delay) 3. fluence +[CITE Z-SCAN], and 4. polarization [CITE KLUG], among others. % +Thus MR-CMDS can be thought of as a multidimensional experimental space, where experiments +typically involve explorations in one to four of the properties above. % + +Because MR-CMDS is a family of related-but-separate experiments, each of them a multidimensional +space, there are special challenges that must be addressed when designing a general-purpose MR-CMDS +instrument. % +These issues require development of software, hardware, and theory. % +Five different improvements to MR-CMDS are presented in \hyperref[prt:development]{Part II: + Development}: 1. processing software (\autoref{cha:pro}), 2. acquisition software +(\autoref{cha:aqn}) 3, active artifact correction ([REF]), 4. automated OPA calibration +(\autoref{cha:opa}), and 5. finite pulse accountancy (\autoref{cha:mix}). % +\hyperref[prt:background]{Part I: Background} introduces relevant literature which informs on this +development work. % +Finally, \hyperref[prt:applications]{Part III: Applications} presents three examples where these +instruments, with these improvements, have been used to address chemical questions in +semiconductor systems. %
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/dissertation.tex b/dissertation.tex index e975dba..9a7f374 100644 --- a/dissertation.tex +++ b/dissertation.tex @@ -58,9 +58,8 @@ This dissertation is approved by the following members of the Final Oral Committ %\include{acknowledgements}
% ABSTRACT
-%\cleardoublepage
-%\chapter*{Abstract}
-%\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract}
+\cleardoublepage
+\include{abstract}
\doublespacing % double spacing required for body of paper
\pagenumbering{arabic}
@@ -69,19 +68,19 @@ This dissertation is approved by the following members of the Final Oral Committ \include{introduction/chapter}
-\part{Background}
+\part{Background} \label{prt:background}
\include{spectroscopy/chapter}
-%\include{materials/chapter}
+% ABANDONED \include{materials/chapter}
\include{software/chapter}
-%\part{Development}
+\part{Development} \label{prt:development}
%\include{processing/chapter}
%\include{acquisition/chapter}
%\include{active_correction/chapter}
%\include{opa/chapter}
-\include{mixed_domain/chapter}
+%\include{mixed_domain/chapter}
-%\part{Applications}
+\part{Applications} \label{prt:applications}
%\include{PbSe/chapter}
%\include{MX2/chapter}
% TODO: perovskites
@@ -93,7 +92,7 @@ This dissertation is approved by the following members of the Final Oral Committ % appendix -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-%\part{Appendix}
+\part{Appendix} \label{prt:appendix}
\begin{appendix}
%\include{public/chapter}
%\include{procedures/chapter}
diff --git a/outline.org b/outline.org index 7763d1a..014c5e6 100644 --- a/outline.org +++ b/outline.org @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ **** fig: figure **** tab: table **** lst: code listing +**** prt: part * abs: abstract * int: introduction ** TODO cite:MaimanTheodoreHarold1960a |