Search Results - "Manzoni, Cristian"
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Tracking excited state decay mechanisms of pyrimidine nucleosides in real time
Published in Nature communications (14-12-2021)“…DNA owes its remarkable photostability to its building blocks—the nucleosides—that efficiently dissipate the energy acquired upon ultraviolet light absorption…”
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Optical parametric amplification by monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Published in Nature photonics (01-01-2021)“…Optical parametric amplification is a second-order nonlinear process whereby an optical signal is amplified by a pump via the generation of an idler field 1 …”
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Photo-Induced Bandgap Renormalization Governs the Ultrafast Response of Single-Layer MoS2
Published in ACS nano (26-01-2016)“…Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are emerging as promising two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors for optoelectronic and flexible devices. However, a…”
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Conical intersection dynamics of the primary photoisomerization event in vision
Published in Nature (London) (23-09-2010)“…A quick look at vision The primary photochemical event in vision, isomerization of the 11- cis chromophore in rhodopsin to the all- trans form, is one of the…”
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UV-Light-Induced Vibrational Coherences: The Key to Understand Kasha Rule Violation in trans-Azobenzene
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (05-04-2018)“…We combine sub-20 fs transient absorption spectroscopy with state-of-the-art computations to study the ultrafast photoinduced dynamics of trans-azobenzene…”
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Sub-cycle millijoule-level parametric waveform synthesizer for attosecond science
Published in Nature photonics (01-10-2020)“…The availability of high-energy pulses with durations shorter than the period of their carrier frequency (sub-cycle) will reveal new regimes of strong-field…”
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Carrier-envelope phase effects on the strong-field photoemission of electrons from metallic nanostructures
Published in Nature photonics (01-01-2014)“…Sharp metallic nanotapers irradiated with few-cycle laser pulses are emerging as a source of highly confined coherent electron wave packets with attosecond…”
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Birefringence-induced phase delay enables Brillouin mechanical imaging in turbid media
Published in Nature communications (19-06-2024)“…Acoustic vibrations of matter convey fundamental viscoelastic information that can be optically retrieved by hyperfine spectral analysis of the inelastic…”
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Exciton–exciton annihilation and biexciton stimulated emission in graphene nanoribbons
Published in Nature communications (17-03-2016)“…Graphene nanoribbons display extraordinary optical properties due to one-dimensional quantum-confinement, such as width-dependent bandgap and strong…”
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Acousto-optic modulator based dispersion scan for phase characterization and shaping of femtosecond mid-infrared pulses
Published in Optics express (21-06-2021)“…Compression, shaping and characterization of broadband mid-infrared (MIR) pulses based on an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) pulse shaper is presented…”
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Interplay between Strong Coupling and Radiative Damping of Excitons and Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Hybrid Nanostructures
Published in ACS nano (28-01-2014)“…We report on the interplay between strong coupling and radiative damping of strongly coupled excitons (Xs) and surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a hybrid…”
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Charge Photogeneration in Few-Layer MoS2
Published in Advanced functional materials (10-06-2015)“…The 2D semiconductor MoS2 in its mono‐ and few‐layer form is expected to have a significant exciton binding energy of several 100 meV, suggesting excitons as…”
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A Unified Experimental/Theoretical Description of the Ultrafast Photophysics of Single and Double Thionated Uracils
Published in Chemistry : a European journal (02-01-2020)“…Photoinduced processes in thiouracil derivatives have lately attracted considerable attention due to their suitability for innovative biological and…”
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Ultraviolet Transient Absorption Spectrometer with Sub-20-fs Time Resolution
Published in Applied sciences (01-06-2018)“…First of all, the UV range is resonant with electronic transitions of many small molecules with fairly simple excited state energy level structure, whose…”
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Ultrafast Excited-State Decay Mechanisms of 6-Thioguanine Followed by Sub-20 fs UV Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (10-02-2022)“…Understanding the primary steps following UV photoexcitation in sulphur-substituted DNA bases (thiobases) is fundamental for developing new phototherapeutic…”
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Toward Waveform Nonlinear Optics Using Multimillijoule Sub-Cycle Waveform Synthesizers
Published in IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics (01-09-2015)“…Waveform nonlinear optics aims to study and control the nonlinear interactions of matter with extremely short optical waveforms custom-tailored within a single…”
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Enhancing hyperspectral imaging through macro and multi-modal capabilities
Published in JPhys photonics (01-07-2024)“…Abstract Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) has emerged as an effective tool to obtain spatially resolved spectral information of artworks by combining optical…”
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Angle-tunable intersubband photoabsorption and enhanced photobleaching in twisted bilayer graphene
Published in Nano research (01-08-2021)“…Van der Waals heterostructures obtained by artificially stacking two-dimensional crystals represent the frontier of material engineering, demonstrating…”
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Fiber-format CARS spectroscopy by spectral compression of femtosecond pulses from a single laser oscillator
Published in Optics letters (01-11-2009)“…We demonstrate an approach to coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy/microscopy based on spectral compression of femtosecond pulses emitted…”
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Multi-scalar and multi-modal wide-field imaging of artworks with a novel hyperspectral system
Published in EPJ Web of conferences (2024)“…Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a very powerful tool to study artworks in a non-contact way. Nevertheless, typical HSI systems, which rely on spatial-scanning…”
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