VUV excitation of a vibrational wavepacket in D2 measured through strong-field dissociative ionization

Autor: A R Bainbridge, J Harrington, A Kirrander, C Cacho, E Springate, W A Bryan, R S Minns
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 17, Iss 10, p 103013 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103013
Popis: Femtosecond vacuum ultraviolet pulses from a monochromated high harmonic generation source excite vibrational wavepackets in the ${B}^{1}{{\rm{\Sigma }}}_{{\rm{g}}}^{+}$ state of D _2 . The wavepacket motion is measured through strong field ionization into bound and dissociative ion states yielding ${{\rm{D}}}_{2}^{+}$ and D ^+ products. The time dependence of the ${{\rm{D}}}_{2}^{+}$ and D ^+ ion signals provides a sensitive fingerprint of the quantum nuclear wavepacket, due to the different ionization rates for the two channels. The experiments are modelled with excitation and ionization processes included explicitly, with the results of the model showing a very good agreement with the experimental observations. The experiment demonstrates the level of detail attainable when studying ultrafast quantum nuclear dynamics using high harmonic sources.
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