Toru Morishita et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 025011 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/2/025011
Potential for ultrafast dynamic chemical imaging with few-cycle infrared lasers
Focus on Attosecond PhysicsToru Morishita1,2,3, Anh-Thu Le1, Zhangjin Chen1 and C D Lin1
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We studied the photoelectron spectra generated by an intense few-cycle infrared laser pulse. By focusing on the angular distributions of the back rescattered high energy photoelectrons, we show that accurate differential elastic scattering cross-sections of the target ion by free electrons can be extracted. Since the incident direction and the energy of the free electrons can be easily changed by manipulating the laser's polarization, intensity and wavelength, these extracted elastic scattering cross-sections, in combination with more advanced inversion algorithms, may be used to reconstruct the effective single-scattering potential of the molecule, thus opening up the possibility of using few-cycle infrared lasers as powerful table-top tools for imaging chemical and biological transformations, with the desired unprecedented temporal and spatial resolutions.
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42.55.Vc X- and gamma-ray lasers
82.80.-d Chemical analysis and related physical methods of analysis
42.60.Jf Beam characteristics: profile, intensity, and power; spatial pattern formation
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Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism
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Issue 2 (February 2008)
Received 14 September 2007
Published 29 February 2008
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Potential for ultrafast dynamic chemical imaging with few-cycle infrared lasers
Toru Morishita et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 025011
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