Coherent vibrational climbing in carboxy-hemoglobin

Cathie Ventalon (1) , James M. Fraser (2) , Marten H. Vos (1) , Antigoni Alexandrou (1) , Jean-Louis Martin (1) , Manuel Joffre (1)

1 LOB - Laboratoire d'optique et biosciences
2 Department of physics, engineering physics and astronomy

We demonstrate vibrational climbing up to level v=6 in carboxyhemoglobin by use of intense negatively-chirped infrared pulses. This technique gave new spectroscopic insight into carboxy-hemoglobin, such as transition frequencies and dephasing times up to the v=6 to v=7 vibrational transition.

Cathie Ventalon, James M. Fraser, Marten H. Vos, Antigoni Alexandrou, Jean-Louis Martin, et al.. Coherent vibrational climbing in carboxy-hemoglobin. Ultrafast Phenomena XIV, Jun 2004, Niigata, Japan. pp.628-630, ⟨10.1007/3-540-27213-5_192⟩. ⟨hal-00831833⟩