Few-optical-cycle pulses tunable from the visible to the mid-infrared by optical parametric amplifiers

D Brida, C Manzoni, G Cirmi, M Marangoni… - Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrafast optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) can provide, under suitable conditions, ultra-
broad gain bandwidths and can thus be used as effective tools for the generation of widely …

Few‐optical‐cycle light pulses with passive carrier‐envelope phase stabilization

G Cerullo, A Baltuška, OD Mücke… - Laser & Photonics …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most advanced frontiers of ultrafast optics is the control of carrier‐envelope phase
(CEP) ϕ of light pulses, which enables the generation of optical waveforms with …

Design criteria for ultrafast optical parametric amplifiers

C Manzoni, G Cerullo - Journal of Optics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) exploit second-order nonlinearity to transfer energy
from a fixed frequency pump pulse to a variable frequency signal pulse, and represent an …

The role of spin in the kinetic control of recombination in organic photovoltaics

A Rao, PCY Chow, S Gélinas, CW Schlenker, CZ Li… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
In biological complexes, cascade structures promote the spatial separation of
photogenerated electrons and holes, preventing their recombination. In contrast, the …

Vibronically coherent ultrafast triplet-pair formation and subsequent thermally activated dissociation control efficient endothermic singlet fission

HL Stern, A Cheminal, SR Yost, K Broch, SL Bayliss… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Singlet exciton fission (SF), the conversion of one spin-singlet exciton (S1) into two spin-
triplet excitons (T1), could provide a means to overcome the Shockley–Queisser limit in …

Identification of a triplet pair intermediate in singlet exciton fission in solution

HL Stern, AJ Musser, S Gelinas, P Parkinson… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Singlet exciton fission is the spin-conserving transformation of one spin-singlet exciton into
two spin-triplet excitons. This exciton multiplication mechanism offers an attractive route to …

The nature of singlet exciton fission in carotenoid aggregates

AJ Musser, M Maiuri, D Brida, G Cerullo… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission allows the fast and efficient generation of two spin triplet states from
one photoexcited singlet. It has the potential to improve organic photovoltaics, enabling …

Activated singlet exciton fission in a semiconducting polymer

AJ Musser, M Al-Hashimi, M Maiuri… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission is a spin-allowed process to generate two triplet excitons from a single
absorbed photon. This phenomenon offers great potential in organic photovoltaics, but the …

High-time-resolution pump-probe system with broadband detection for the study of time-domain vibrational dynamics

D Polli, L Lüer, G Cerullo - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
We present an ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy system in the visible combining
high-sensitivity broadband detection with extreme temporal resolution. The instrument is …

Quantitative bimolecular recombination in organic photovoltaics through triplet exciton formation

PCY Chow, S Gélinas, A Rao… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The nanoscale morphology and high charge densities in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) lead
to a high rate of bimolecular encounters between spin-uncorrelated electrons and holes …