CoCoChem - A Network to Develop the Coherent Control of Chemistry

光化学利用光引起化学变化。这通常会导致产品不同于使用通常的化学试剂和加热得到的产品。不幸的是，光化学并不比热化学更容易控制，通常得到的是混合产物。相干控制旨在利用激光产生的电场来指导化学反应。这可以通过使用一种特殊形状的激光脉冲来实现。如何形成脉冲在技术上是一个难题。这个脉冲如何实现控制在理论上是一个难题。建议的研究是建立一个研究人员网络来讨论和解决这些问题。

Photochemistry uses light to initiate chemical change. This can often lead to products different from those obtained using usual chemical reagents and heat. Unfortunately, photochemistry is no easier to control than thermal chemistry and often a mixture of producs are obtained. Coherent control aims to use the electric field generated by a laser to direct a chemical reaction. This can be done by using a specially shaped pulse of laser light. How to shape the pulse is a technically difficult problem. How this pulse brings about the control is a theoretically difficult problem. The proposed research is to set up a network of researchers to discuss and solve these problems.