Ultrafast Spectroscopy: State of the Art and Open Challenges

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Recent developments in compact ultrafast lasers

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Two-Dimensional Femtosecond Spectroscopy

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Efficient hot-electron transfer by a plasmon-induced interfacial charge-transfer transition

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Structure of the Amide I Band of Peptides Measured by Femtosecond Nonlinear-Infrared Spectroscopy

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Coherence Dynamics in Photosynthesis: Protein Protection of Excitonic Coherence

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Resonant and nonresonant control over matter and light by intense terahertz transients

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Single-exciton optical gain in semiconductor nanocrystals

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Compression of high-energy laser pulses below 5 fs

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Linear techniques of phase measurement by femtosecond spectral interferometry for applications in spectroscopy

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Conical intersection dynamics of the primary photoisomerization event in vision

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Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes

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An Atomic-Level View of Melting Using Femtosecond Electron Diffraction

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Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants

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Multidimensional Femtosecond Correlation Spectroscopies of Electronic and Vibrational Excitations

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Energetic optimization of ion conduction rate by the K+ selectivity filter

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Ultrafast electron dynamics in phenylalanine initiated by attosecond pulses

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Protein states and proteinquakes.

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DNA Excited-State Dynamics: From Single Bases to the Double Helix

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Four-Dimensional Electron Microscopy

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X-ray free-electron lasers

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Femtosecond electronic response of atoms to ultra-intense X-rays

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Watching a Protein as it Functions with 150-ps Time-Resolved X-ray Crystallography

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Non-thermal melting in semiconductors measured at femtosecond resolution

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Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

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Conservation of orbital symmetry

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Femtosecond X-ray measurement of coherent lattice vibrations near the Lindemann stability limit

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Generation of Femtosecond Pulses of Synchrotron Radiation

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Sub-cycle switch-on of ultrastrong light–matter interaction

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Photolysis of the Carbon Monoxide Complex of Myoglobin: Nanosecond Time-Resolved Crystallography

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4D Visualization of Transitional Structures in Phase Transformations by Electron Diffraction

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Chlorophyll arrangement in a bacteriochlorophyll protein from Chlorobium limicola

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Detection of Nonthermal Melting by Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction

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Femtosecond spectroscopy of condensed phases with chirped supercontinuum probing

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53-attosecond X-ray pulses reach the carbon K-edge

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Base stacking controls excited-state dynamics in A·T DNA

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Quantum design of photosynthesis for bio-inspired solar-energy conversion

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Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein

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Room-Temperature Detection of a Single Molecule’s Absorption by Photothermal Contrast

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Vibronic coherence in oxygenic photosynthesis

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Two-dimensional Fourier transform electronic spectroscopy

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Direct observation of ultrafast collective motions in CO myoglobin upon ligand dissociation

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Ultrafast X-ray Pulses from Laser-Produced Plasmas

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Retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond x-ray laser

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Achieving few-femtosecond time-sorting at hard X-ray free-electron lasers

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Quantum Coherent Energy Transfer over Varying Pathways in Single Light-Harvesting Complexes

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High-energy attosecond light sources

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Femtosecond x-ray spectroscopy of an electrocyclic ring-opening reaction

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Nature does not rely on long-lived electronic quantum coherence for photosynthetic energy transfer

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The ultrafast X-ray spectroscopic revolution in chemical dynamics

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Chemical Reactions Produced by Very High Light Intensities

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Experimental Implementations of Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Electronic Spectroscopy

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Femtosecond Crystallography with Ultrabright Electrons and X-rays: Capturing Chemistry in Action

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Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide

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Generation, shaping, and characterization of intense femtosecond pulses tunable from 3 to 20 μm

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Two-Quantum 2D FT Electronic Spectroscopy of Biexcitons in GaAs Quantum Wells

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Two-dimensional spectroscopy at infrared and optical frequencies

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Quantum Coherence Enabled Determination of the Energy Landscape in Light-Harvesting Complex II

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Water vibrations have strongly mixed intra- and intermolecular character

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Femtosecond continuum generation in bulk laser host materials with sub-μJ pump pulses

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Two-dimensional IR spectroscopy and isotope labeling defines the pathway of amyloid formation with residue-specific resolution

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Photoactive Yellow Protein, A New Type of Photoreceptor Protein: Will This “Yellow Lab” Bring Us Where We Want to Go?

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Identification and characterization of diverse coherences in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex

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Sub-50 fs broadband absorption spectroscopy with tunable excitation: putting the analysis of ultrafast molecular dynamics on solid ground

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Coherent Atomic Motions in a Nanostructure Studied by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction

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Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Response of a Single Gold Nanorod near Its Surface Plasmon Resonance

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Tunable two-dimensional femtosecond spectroscopy

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Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses of Synchrotron Radiation

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Detection of Acoustic Oscillations of Single Gold Nanospheres by Time-Resolved Interferometry

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Design criteria for ultrafast optical parametric amplifiers

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Crystal structure of full-length KcsA in its closed conformation

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Single-molecule imaging by optical absorption

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Ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction in transmission resolves polymer/graphene superstructure dynamics

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High-power ultrafast fiber laser systems

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High-brightness table-top hard X-ray source driven by sub-100-femtosecond mid-infrared pulses

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Principles of nonlinear optical spectroscopy

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