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diff --git a/abstract.tex b/abstract.tex index 2c9b4ed..566d95a 100644 --- a/abstract.tex +++ b/abstract.tex @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ 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 and % JCW Zhao and Wright-JACS], -2. extracting spectra that would otherwise be selection-rule disslowed [CITE BOYLE], 3. resolving +2. extracting spectra that would otherwise be selection-rule disallowed [CITE BOYLE], 3. resolving fully coherent dyanmics [CITE % JCW Pakoulev and Wright], 4. measuring coupling [CITE], and 5. resolving ultrafast dynamics [CITE]. % @@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ CMDS can be collected in the frequency or the time domain, and each approach has 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. % +These 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 +This signal 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. % @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ Because MR-CMDS is a family of related-but-separate experiments, each of them a 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}). % +Five different improvements to MR-CMDS are presented in this dissertation: 1. processing software +(\autoref{cha:pro}), 2. acquisition software (\autoref{cha:acq}) 3, active artifact correction +(\autoref{cha:act}), 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 |