Ultrafast broadband circular dichroism in the deep ultraviolet
Malte Oppermann, Benjamin Bauer, Thomas Rossi, Francesco Zinna, Jan Helbing, Jérôme Lacour, and Majed Chergui
Ultrafast broadband circular dichroism in the deep ultraviolet
Malte Oppermann, Benjamin Bauer, Thomas Rossi, Francesco Zinna, Jan Helbing, Jérôme Lacour, and Majed Chergui
Author Affiliations
Malte Oppermann,1,* Benjamin Bauer,1 Thomas Rossi,1 Francesco Zinna,2 Jan Helbing,3 Jérôme Lacour,2 and Majed Chergui1
1Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ISIC-FSB, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2Département de chimie organique, Université de Genève, Quai Ernest Ansermet 30, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
3Institut für Chemie, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
*Corresponding author: malte.oppermann@epfl.ch
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Optica Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 56-60 (2019)
Abstract
The measurement of chirality and its temporal evolution are crucial for the understanding of a large range of biological functions and chemical reactions. Steady-state circular dichroism (CD) is a standard analytical tool for measuring chirality in chemistry and biology. Nevertheless, its push into the ultrafast time domain and in the deep-ultraviolet has remained a challenge, with only some isolated reports of subnanosecond CD. Here, we present a broadband time-resolved CD spectrometer in the deep ultraviolet (UV) spectral range with femtosecond time resolution. The setup employs a photoelastic modulator to achieve shot-to-shot polarization switching of a 20 kHz pulse train of broadband femtosecond deep-UV pulses (250–370 nm). The resulting sequence of alternating left- and right-circularly polarized probe pulses is employed in a pump-probe scheme with shot-to-shot dispersive detection and thus allows for the acquisition of broadband CD spectra of ground- and excited-state species. Through polarization scrambling of the probe pulses prior to detection, artifact-free static and transient CD spectra of enantiopure [Ru(bpy)3]2+ are successfully recorded with a sensitivity of <2 amino-acid="" and="" biological="" broadband="" changes="" chirality="" deep-uv="" detection="" dna="" due="" feasible.="" font="" in="" is="" its="" mdeg="" measurement="" now="" od="" of="" oligomers="" peptides="" residues="" sensitivity="" systems="" the="" to="" ultrafast="" unprecedented="" with="">
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