Transient Grating Investigations at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces

Angela Punzi; Pierre Brodard; Eric Vauthey

doi:10.2533/000942905777676777

Transient Grating Investigations at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces

Authors

Angela Punzi
Pierre Brodard
Eric Vauthey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/000942905777676777

Keywords:

Acoustic properties, Liquid-liquid interfaces, Orientational anisotropy, Transient grating spectroscopy, Ultrafast dynamics

Abstract

A new four-wave-mixing technique with evanescent optical fields generated by total internal reflection at a liquid–liquid interface is described. Several applications of this method to measure thermoacoustic and dynamic properties near liquid–liquid interfaces are presented.