Progress in Photon Science: Emerging New Directions (Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 125)

✍ Scribed by Kaoru Yamanouchi (editor), Alina A. Manshina (editor), Vladimir A. Makarov (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book summarizes the latest findings by leading researchers in the field of photon science in Russia and Japan. It discusses recent advances in the field of photon science and chemistry, covering a wide range of topics, including photochemistry and spectroscopy of novel materials, magnetic properties of solids, photobiology and imaging, and spectroscopy of solids and nanostructures. Based on lectures by respected scientists at the forefront of photon and molecular sciences, the book helps keep readers abreast of the current developments in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Contributors
1 Self-action of Femtosecond Optical Vortex in a Medium with Kerr Nonlinearity
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Vortex Formation from a Gaussian Beam in a Scheme with a Spiral Phase Plate
1.3 Spatial Stability of the Optical Vortex in the Kerr Medium
1.4 Spatial Spectra of Annular Beams
1.5 The Self-focusing Effect on the Wavefront and Spatial Spectrum of an Optical Vortex
1.6 Conclusion
References
2 Diagnostic of Peak Laser Intensity by Electron and Positron Production from Laser Plasma
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Diagnostics of Peak Laser Intensity Based on the Measurement of Parameters of Electrons Emitted from Laser Focal Region
2.3 Diagnostic of Peak Laser Intensity by Pair Production in Low Density Plasma
2.4 Diagnostic of Peak Laser Intensity by Pair Production from Thin Foil Target
2.5 Conclusion
References
3 Theoretical Model for Simulation of Rotational Excitation in Air-Lasing
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Theoretical Model
3.2.1 Rotational Excitation
3.2.2 Electronic, Vibrational and Rotational Excitation
3.2.3 Rovibronic Dynamics in Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
3.3 Rovibronic Excitation in N2+
3.4 Summary
References
4 Photocatalysts for Reduction of Molecular Oxygen to Hydrogen Peroxide
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Oxygen Reduction Reactions
4.1.2 Evaluation of Photocatalysts
4.2 Photocatalysis on Inorganic Semiconductors
4.2.1 Zinc Oxide
4.2.2 Titanium Dioxide
4.2.3 Other Inorganic Semiconductors
4.2.4 Inorganic Composite Photocatalysts
4.3 Carbon-Derived Photocatalysts
4.3.1 2D Carbon Materials
4.3.2 Polyaromatic Compounds
4.3.3 Metal Complexes with Organic Ligands as Homogeneous Photocatalysts
4.3.4 Anthraquinone Derivatives
4.3.5 Acridinium Photocatalysts
4.3.6 Quinolinium Photocatalysts
4.4 Conclusions
References
5 Rare Earth Ion Based Luminescence Thermometry
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Temperature Sensor Performance and Characteristics
5.3 Luminescence Intensity Ratio
5.3.1 Excited Thermally Coupled Levels
5.3.2 Ground Thermally Coupled Levels
5.3.3 Stark Sublevels
5.3.4 Peak-to-Valley Calculation
5.4 Spectral Line Position Thermometry
5.5 Bandwidth Thermometry
5.6 Lifetime Thermometry
5.7 Conclusion and Perspectives
References
6 Optical Monitoring of Single Molecule Dynamics of RNA in Living Cells
6.1 Introduction
6.2 RNA Labeling Methods for Live-Cell Optical Imaging
6.3 Design of the PUM-HD-Based RNA Probes
6.4 Microscope Setup for Single-Molecule Imaging of RNA in Living Cells
6.5 Application of PUM-HD for Monitoring RNA in Living Cells
6.6 Perspective
References
7 Angular Momentum Conversion of the Light Beams in Three-Wave Mixing Processes in the Bulk and on the Surface of Isotropic Chiral Medium
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Bulk Sum-Frequency Generation
7.3 Surface Sum-Frequency Generation
7.4 Second-Harmonic Generation
7.5 Conclusion
References
8 CARS Diagnostics of Molecular Fluid Phase Behavior in Nanoporous Glasses
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Materials and Methods
8.2.1 Carbon Dioxide at Near the Critical Point Conditions
8.2.2 Raman Spectrum
8.2.3 Nanoporous Samples and Thermal High-Pressure CO2 Cell
8.2.4 CARS Spectrometer
8.2.5 CARS Signal Analysis
8.3 Experimental Observations and Discussion
8.3.1 Surface-Adsorbed and Polymolecular Layers, Formation of Liquid Clusters
8.3.2 Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Density in Pores
8.4 Conclusion
References
9 Contemporary Discoveries in the Copper Octacyanidometallate Photomagnetic Assemblies
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Role of the Octacyanidometallate Type in the Photomagnetic Effect
9.3 Influence of Excitation Wavelength on the Mechanism of Photomagnetic Effect and Photoreversibility
9.3.1 Influence of Photoexcitation Temperature
References
10 Element-Specific Spin States in Heusler-Alloy Compounds Probed by X-Ray Magnetic Spectroscopy
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Heusler Alloy Compounds
10.3 Results and Discussion
10.3.1 Candidate for Spin-Gapless Semiconductor CoFeMnSi
10.3.2 Candidate for Spin-Gapless Semiconductor CoFeCrAl
10.3.3 Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy in Mn3-δGa
10.3.4 Interfacial Exchange Coupling Between Transition Metals and Mn3-δGa
10.4 Summary and Outlook in X-Ray Magnetic Spectroscopies for Heusler Alloys
References
Index