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Momentum-imaging investigations of the dissociation of D2+ and the isomerization of acetylene to vinylidene by intense short laser pulses

A S Alnaser1,2, I Litvinyuk1, T Osipov1, B Ulrich1, A Landers3, E Wells4, C M Maharjan1, P Ranitovic1, I Bochareva1, D Ray1 and C L Cocke1

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We present momentum images of the ionic products from the ionization of D2 and C2H2 by short laser pulses. For D2, we use a pump–probe approach to investigate the dependence of the enhanced ionization on the internuclear distance. Evidence for two (not well separated) regions of enhancement is found near internuclear distances of 6 and 10 au. In the case of acetylene, we report clear evidence for the production of both acetylene and vinylidene dications with kinetic energy releases similar to those reported earlier by core electron removal. We also find very different angular distributions for the fragments in the two channels, consistent with a finite time for the isomerization.


PACS

33.80.Gj Diffuse spectra; predissociation, photodissociation

42.50.Hz Strong-field excitation of optical transitions in quantum systems; multiphoton processes; dynamic Stark shift

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Dates

Issue 13 (14 July 2006)

Received 12 December 2005, in final form 17 January 2006

Published 22 June 2006



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