Laser-induced Coulomb explosion imaging of aligned molecules and molecular dimers

CA Schouder, AS Chatterley… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
We discuss how Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI), triggered by intense femtosecond laser
pulses and combined with laser-induced alignment and covariance analysis of the angular …

Spatiotemporal rotational dynamics of laser-driven molecules

K Lin, I Tutunnikov, J Ma, J Qiang, L Zhou… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Molecular alignment and orientation by laser fields has attracted significant attention in
recent years, mostly due to new capabilities to manipulate the molecular spatial …

Electronic state population dynamics upon ultrafast strong field ionization and fragmentation of molecular nitrogen

C Kleine, MO Winghart, ZY Zhang, M Richter… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Air lasing from single ionized N 2+ molecules induced by laser filamentation in air has been
intensively investigated and the mechanisms responsible for lasing are currently highly …

New perspectives in time-resolved laser-induced electron diffraction

U De Giovannini, J Küpper… - Journal of Physics B …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Imaging the microscopic world in real space and real time is a grand challenge of science. In
the landscape of time-resolved imaging techniques, laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED) …

High-resolution movies of molecular rotational dynamics captured with ultrafast electron diffraction

Y Xiong, KJ Wilkin, M Centurion - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Imaging the structure of molecules during a photoinduced reaction is essential for
elucidating reaction mechanisms. This requires high spatiotemporal resolution to capture …

Observation of persistent orientation of chiral molecules by a laser field with twisted polarization

I Tutunnikov, J Floß, E Gershnabel, P Brumer… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Molecular chirality is an omnipresent phenomenon of fundamental significance in physics,
chemistry, and biology. For this reason, the search for various techniques for …

Rotational coherence of encapsulated ortho and para water in fullerene-C60 revealed by time-domain terahertz spectroscopy

SS Zhukov, V Balos, G Hoffman, S Alom… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
We resolve the real-time coherent rotational motion of isolated water molecules
encapsulated in fullerene-C60 cages by time-domain terahertz (THz) spectroscopy. We …

Diagnostics of nanosystems with the use of ultrashort X-ray pulses: Theory and experiment (brief review)

MK Eseev, VI Matveev, DN Makarov - JETP Letters, 2021 - Springer
X-ray diffraction analysis is one of the famous widely used methods to study the structure of
matter. It is well known that the scattering of ultrashort X-ray pulses can be used in X-ray …

Trends in angle-resolved molecular photoelectron spectroscopy

D Dowek, P Decleva - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of angle-resolved molecular photoelectron spectroscopy is reviewed, with
emphasis on foundations and most recent applications in different regimes of light–matter …

Measuring the rotational temperature and pump intensity in molecular alignment experiments via high harmonic generation

Y He, L He, P Wang, B Wang, S Sun, R Liu, B Wang… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a method to simultaneously measure the rotational temperature and pump
intensity in laser-induced molecular alignment by the time-resolved high harmonic …