Control of fragmentation reactions in impulsively aligned polyatomic molecules by selective removal of inner-valence electrons

Author

Xie, Xiang ; Doblhoff-Dier, K. ; Xu, Hao ; Roither, S. ; Iwasaki, Akira ; Schoffler, M. ; Kartashov, D. ; Yamanouchi, Kazuhiko ; Baltuska, A. ; Grafe, S. ; Kitzler, M.

Author_Institution

Photonics Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria

fYear

2013

fDate

12-16 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Recently, selective fragmentation of polyatomic molecules using the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of few-cycle ionizing laser pulses as the control parameter has been demonstrated. It was shown that the underlying mechanism is selective removal of specific (inner-valence shell) electrons, which puts the molecule into a dedicated dissociative electronic state from which the molecule then fragments along a desired pathway.

Keywords

molecular electronic states; molecule-photon collisions; photodissociation; photoionisation; carrier-envelope phase; control parameter; dissociative electronic state; few-cycle ionizing laser pulses; fragmentation reaction control; impulsively aligned polyatomic molecules; inner-valence shell electron removal; Chemical lasers; Chemistry; Delays; Educational institutions; Extraterrestrial measurements; Ionization; Laser theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0593-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801180

Filename

6801180