Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar 1999 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 32 373 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/32/2/018
molecules: dependence on laser intensity
Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar
Show affiliationsWe have studied the laser intensity effect on the vibrational branching ratio (VBR) in
-photon resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization of
molecules, considering the electronic autoionization through the lowest autoionizing (AI) state of
symmetry. In this ab initio calculation we have studied resonant two-photon transitions from the ground
state to the doubly excited autoionizing state of
symmetry as well as to the electronic continuum (
:
) of
molecules via the resonant intermediate
levels. Transitions to two different continuum energies (-0.4500 au and -0.5853 au) have been considered; the first one is 1.36 eV above the dissociation threshold (-0.50 au) of the
ion and the second one is 0.048 eV above the
vibrational level of the
ion in the ground state
. Parallel transitions through other intermediate near-resonant rovibrational levels v = 0-3 and 5-20 with the allowed values of total angular momentum j of the
state have been included in the calculation. Besides the effect of interference of direct ionization with autoionization channels, we have considered here (i) the effects of mutual interference among parallel autoionization channels and that among parallel ionization channels via the near-resonant and resonant rovibrational levels of the
state and (ii) the effect of the two-photon coupling between intermediate rovibrational levels via the autoionizing state and the continuum in order to study the laser intensity dependence of vibrational distribution of
ions in the ground state. It has been shown that these two effects (channel interference effect and two-photon coupling effect) lead to non-Franck-Condon type VBR and the values differ from those obtained by considering the direct ionization channels alone. The laser intensity dependence of VBR is also different from that obtained by neglecting the autoionization channels. For transitions to two different continuum energies these effects become prominent at two different laser intensities. Furthermore, it has been found that the transitions through different intermediate resonant rotational levels of the
state give rise to different vibrational branching ratios.
33.80.Rv Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states (e.g., Rydberg states)
31.15.A- Ab initio calculations
33.80.Eh Autoionization, photoionization, and photodetachment
33.15.Mt Rotation, vibration, and vibration-rotation constants
Issue 2 (28 January 1999)
Received 27 May 1998, in final form 12 November 1998
molecules: dependence on laser intensity
Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar 1999 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 32 373
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