Three-dimensional molecular orientation with combined electrostatic and elliptically polarized laser fields
- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 72 (6), 063401
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.72.063401
Abstract
We report an experimental demonstration of the three-dimensional orientation of gas-phase molecules by applying the combination of an electrostatic and an elliptically polarized laser field. Three-dimensional orientation was verified using a technique in which two-dimensional ion imaging and time-of-flight mass spectrometry are complementarily used.Keywords
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