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Highlighting the angular dependence of bond softening and bond hardening of H+2 in an ultrashort intense laser pulse

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P Q Wang, A M Sayler, K D Carnes, J F Xia, M A Smith, B D Esry and I Ben-Itzhak

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Measurements of laser-induced dissociation of H+2 by 135 fs 790 nm pulses with a peak intensity of approximately 2.4 × 1014 W cm−2 reveal a strong correlation between the angular distribution and the kinetic energy released upon dissociation. This correlation is highlighted by comparing the measured angular distribution to the one expected for photo-dissociation in the weak-field limit which has a cos2θ distribution. Bond softening is aligned along the laser polarization much more than weak-field photo-dissociation. In contrast, bond hardening results in wider angular distributions than photo-dissociation. The deviation of these angular distributions from cos2θ increases with the energy difference from the crossing between the ground 1sσ state potential curve and the one-photon dressed 2pσ diabatic Floquet potential curve.


PACS

33.80.Gj Diffuse spectra; predissociation, photodissociation

33.15.Fm Bond strengths, dissociation energies

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Dates

Issue 15 (14 August 2005)

Received 15 May 2005, in final form 27 June 2005

Published 13 July 2005



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