MIT Laser Research Facility

该奖项由化学、材料研究、物理和生物仪器及资源部门参与，由麻省理工学院激光研究设施提供，将为13名化学和物理教师提供核心支持。一些新的合作研究项目将启动。在物理化学方面，包括调制光谱技术的发展，应用于二维光谱学和自由基检测；高激发下单线态和三重态分子电位面的探索碰撞过程涉及振动激发的大气物质。基础物理研究将包括原子腔量子电动力学和探索里德伯原子中的量子混沌。在材料科学中，量子晶体、表面功能化量子粒子和聚合物薄膜的声学特性将被研究。包括甲烷单加氧酶和核糖核苷酸还原酶在内的酶模型系统的研究以及光合作用和光转导机制和视觉色素的研究将成为生物化学和无机化学的研究重点。所有这些项目都需要该设施提供的高分辨率、多激光和/或超快脉冲设备。该设施还为学生提供先进光谱技术的实践经验和培训。研究人员之间的互动带来了新的合作和研究项目，如果没有这个设施，这些合作和研究项目就不会存在

This renewal award, with participation by the Divisions of Chemistry, Materials Research, Physics and Biological Instrumentation and Resources made to the MIT Laser Research Facility will provide core support for thirteen Chemistry and Physics faculty. A number of new collaborative research projects will be started. In physical chemistry, these include development of modulated-spectroscopy techniques, with application to two dimensional optical spectroscopy and free radical detection; exploration of singlet and triplet molecular potential surfaces at high levels of excitation; and collision processes involving vibrationally excited atmospheric species. Fundamental physics studies will include atom-cavity quantum electrodynamics and explorations of quantum chaos in Rydberg atoms. In materials science, quantum crystallites, surface-functionalized quantum particles, and acoustic properties of polymer films will be investigated. Studies of enzyme model systems, including methane monooxygenase and ribonucleotide reductase, and the mechanisms of light transduction in photosynthesis and visual pigments will be the focus of research in biological and inorganic chemistry. All of these projects require the high resolution, multiple-laser, and/or ultrafast-pulse equipment provided by the facility. %%% This facility also provides students with hands-on experience and training in advanced spectroscopic techniques. The interaction of the investigators leads to new collaborations and research programs which would not exist in the absence of the facility