Disentangling molecular alignment and enhanced ionization in intense laser fields

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.59.R3170
Author	Search for: Ellert, Ch.¹; Search for: Corkum, P. B.²
Name affiliation	National Research Council of Canada National Research Council of Canada. Security and Disruptive Technologies
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Abstract	Using circular and linear laser polarization for strong-field dissociative ionization we show that iodine molecules are rotationally fixed by their own moment of inertia during the dissociative ionization with a 80-fs pulse. What seems to be alignment of the fragments is created by an enhancement of the ionization rate, which is strongly dependent on the angle between the molecular axis and the laser electric-field vector. By the introduced method we can measure the degree of alignment I₂, Br₂, Cl₂, and O₂ and independently estimate the enhancement of the ionization rate for I₂
Publication date	1999-05-01
In	Physical Review A 59, no. 5 (1 May 1999): R3170–R3173.
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NPARC number	21277554
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