Optically-heterodyne-detected optical Kerr effect (OHD-OKE): Applications in condensed phase dynamics

Atom Substitution Effects in Ionic Liquids: A Microscopic View by Femtosecond Raman-Induced Kerr Effect Spectroscopy

“…Although the multi-mode Brownian oscillator model (Tanimura & Mukamel, 1993;Nagata & Tanimura, 2006) is also commonly used to characterize the low-frequency spectra (Giraud et al, 2003;, the former analytical model is used throughout this chapter. Most of the earlier femtosecond RIKES studies were conducted to clarify the intermolecular vibrational and orientational dynamics in pure molecular liquids and binary mixtures (Kinoshita et al, 1996;Castner & Maroncelli, 1998;Smith & Meech, 2002;Zhong & Fourkas, 2008;. Nowadays, femtosecond RIKES is also used to study the intermolecular vibrational dynamics, reorientation, and microscopic intermolecular interactions of complex condensed phases (Hunt et al, 2007;Farrer & Fourkas, 2003) such as polymer liquids and solutions, microemulsions, aqueous protein films and solutions, and solvents in nanoporous glasses.…”

Water Dynamics at Protein Interfaces: Ultrafast Optical Kerr Effect Study

“…1,2 Therefore, the understand- 27 ing of water at these interfaces is of great importance in 28 chemistry and biology. 3À7 29 Water molecules in aqueous solutions of proteins can be 30 grouped into three broad categories: (1) the internal waters that 31 occupy specific sites in the protein and can be identified crystal- 32 lographically, (2) the hydration water immediately surrounding 33 the protein, and (3) bulklike water. Hydration water has direct 34 contact with the protein surface and plays an essential role in 35 protein folding interaction of water with the hydrophobic groups, 36 causing them to collapse and become isolated in the protein core.…”

Enhanced optical Kerr effect method for a detailed characterization of the third-order nonlinearity of two-dimensional materials applied to graphene

“…14, the optically heterodyned optical Kerr effect method (OHD-OKE) 14,24 has many advantages over other widely used methods. In this paper, we implement an enhanced version called 2D-OHD-OKE, in which the sample is tilted, and linear polarization angles are tunable; and we provide the theoretical framework to extract tensor components from phase and amplitude jumps.…”