INCEPT

A new approach to time domain studies

Standard time domain experiments measure the time evolution of the reflected/transmitted mean number of photons in the probe pulses. The evolution of the response of a material is typically averaged over the illuminated area, and many pump and probe measurements are repeated stroboscopically. INCEPT is extending time-domain optical spectroscopy beyond mean photon number measurements by performing a full Time Resolved Quantum State Reconstruction (TRQSR) of the probe pulses as a function of the pump and probe delay. The nature of the light-matter interaction and the transient light-induced states of matter will be imprinted into the probe quantum state after the interaction with the material; these two properties can be uncovered with unprecedented detail with this new approach to time domain studies.