Photonic Reagents: The Production of Cyclic Ozone, With a Focus on Developing Equation Free Methods for Optimization Schemes

摘要

An apparatus capable of producing and detecting neutral ozone species created from high pressure oxygen using strong field photonic reagents have been designed constructed and utilized. The apparatus uses femtosecond BoxCARS to probe small volumes with multiple laser beams. Using this technique strong evidence was obtained that photonic reagents convert O2 to conventional ozone. Progress has also been made on the understanding and control of filament formation in ambient conditions. For guiding the search for appropriate photonic reagents the use of dimensionality reduction schemes was demonstrated on several model systems; the software code was developed that is used for reducing the complexity of the search space near dimension of 64. A general intrinsic parameter extraction method was developed for nonlinear cases; it may enable control independent of the measurement settings. Quantum control landscapes for photonic reagent optimization were shown to be trap free and inherently robust thereby permitting optimization searches to reach the ultimate yield and to effectively manage experimental noise even near the top.