Mass-resolved momentum imaging

In the present chapter, we describe how molecules respond to an ultra-short intense laser held by referring to our recent series of studies. In Sect. 1.2, we describe the experimental techniques - such as mass-resolved momentum imaging (MRMI) and coincidence momentum imaging (CMI) - that have been developed in order to measure the momentum distributions of fragment ions generated by the Coulomb explosions of molecules in intense laser helds. In Sect. 1.3, we show how the dynamics induced within CS2 by ultra-short intense laser helds is elucidated by the CMI method from momentum... 

Fig. 1.2. Mass-resolved momentum imaging (MRMI) technique applied to the N2+ ion produced from N2 in intense laser fields ( 3.5PW/cm2). The two-dimensional momentum map is constructed from a set of time-of-flight mass spectra recorded at different angles a between the laser polarization direction and the TOF tube...

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