Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes
on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field …

The observation of coherent dynamics ensuing from the excitation of molecular systems by
femtosecond laser pulses is at the heart of femtochemistry. The time-dependent evolution of …

We summarize the problem of measuring an ultrashort laser pulse and describe in detail a
technique that completely characterizes a pulse in time: frequency-resolved optical gating …

We review the phenonomena which occur in multiphoton physics when the electric field of
the applied laser radiation becomes comparable with the Coulomb field strength seen by an …

Feedback quantum control, where the sampleteaches'a computer-controlled arbitrary
lightform generator to find the optimal light field, is experimentally demonstrated for a …

Active control of chemical reactions on a microscopic (molecular) level, that is, the selective
breaking or making of chemical bonds, is an old dream. However, conventional control …

The last part of the twentieth century has experienced a huge resurge of activity in the field of
coherent light–matter interaction, more so in attempting to exert control over such …

▪ Abstract There has been much progress in the control of chemical reactions since methods
of active control were first proposed by Brumer & Shapiro and by Tannor & Rice ten years …

Maximizing nonlinear light-matter interactions is a primary motive for compressing laser
pulses to achieve ultrashort transform limited pulses. Here we show how, by appropriately …

Chirped ultrashort pulses are used to selectively excite vibrationally coherent populations in
the ground and excited electronic states of a molecule in liquid solution. Negatively chirped …