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Publications in Scientific Journals:

X. Xie, K. Doblhoff-Dier, S. Roither, M. Schöffler, D. V. Kartashov, H Xu, T. Rathje, G. Paulus, A. Baltuska, S. Gräfe, M. Kitzler:
"Attosecond-Recollision-Controlled Selective Fragmentation of Polyatomic Molecules";
Physical Review Letters, 109 (2012), 243001-1 - 243001-5.



English abstract:
Control over various fragmentation reactions of a series of polyatomic molecules (acetylene, ethylene, 1,3-butadiene) by the optical waveform of intense few-cycle laser pulses is demonstrated experimentally. We show both experimentally and theoretically that the responsible mechanism is inelastic ionization from inner-valence molecular orbitals by recolliding electron wave packets, whose recollision energy in few-cycle ionizing laser pulses strongly depends on the optical waveform. Our work demonstrates an efficient and selective way of predetermining fragmentation and isomerization reactions in polyatomic molecules on subfemtosecond time scales.


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.243001



Related Projects:
Project Head Stefanie Gräfe:
Korrelierte Elektronendynamik in ultrakurzen, starken mehr-Farben Laserfeldern


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