On April 25, the first Optics Frontier Summit and the award ceremony of the 2020 China’s Top Ten Advances in Optics were held in Fuyang District of Zhejiang City. After the first round of recommendations, preliminary evaluation and final evaluation, 10 basic researches and 10 outstanding results of applied researches in optics were finally selected by the secret ballot of 48 evaluation experts who have comprehensively considered the academic value and application value of candidate results for the competition of China’s Top Ten Advances in Optics this year.
“Echo in a single vibrationally excited molecule”, the research result made by the research team led by Prof. Wu Jian from State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy of East China Normal University and cooperators, stands out from more than 100 pieces of candidate works to be successfully selected into the list of 2020 China’s Top Ten Advances (basic researches).The team first observed the ultrafast vibrating echo in the single molecular system in the experiment with ultrafast femtosecond lasers and coincidence detection technologies.
Compared with the traditional echoes, the vibrational wave packet echoes occur in a single and isolated molecule while it reveals strong quantum effects.Besides that, given the universality of the molecular vibrational wave packet echoes in other systems, with the development of detection technology, researchers are expected to reveal the ultrafast dynamic process and more physical information inside the macromolecules by virtue of the single molecular vibrational echo.
Selected work for 2020 China’s Top Ten Advances in Optics: echo in a single vibrationally excited molecule
Fan Dianyuan, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Researcher of Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, presented the trophy and certificate
Initiated by Chinese Journal of Lasers, the “China’s Top Ten Advances in Optics” competition was successfully held for 15 years, aiming to promote the wide spread applications of China’s outstanding research achievements in optics, as well as the development of China’s optics undertakings.
Given the candidate results of high academic levels, together with the strict and fair review mechanism, this award is highly recognized by the industry, highlighting a high degree of credibility and influence. Prof. Wu Jian, who has been engaged in the frontier research of ultrafast laser physics for a long time, has made innovative contributions in the precision measurement and control of molecular ultrafast dynamics. Furthermore, he has published more than 130 SCI theses, including 1 in Nature Physics and 24 in PRL, and some of his achievements won the first prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award in 2019.
Source: State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy of East China Normal University
Author: Xu Xincheng
Copy editor: Joshua Mayfield
Editor: Yuan Yiwei
