Extraction of the Bond Lengths of Aligned Acetylene using Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction
Abstract
Imaging the dynamics of molecular processes, i.e. the creation of a so-called 'molecular movie', requires temporal and spatial resolutions on the few-femtosecond and sub-Ångström scales, respectively. Traditional diffraction techniques are currently temporal limited on the hundreds of femtoseconds level. Laser induced electron diffraction (LIED), on the other hand, is based on using strong-field ionisation to probe an objects' structure with its own rescattered electrons. It therefore has an intrinsic temporal resolution on the attosecond to few-femtosecond scale. LIED has been used to image the dynamics of diatomic molecules over 5 fs [1] but the real goal is to apply it to polyatomic molecules that have many possible ionisation and fragmentation channels.
Recommended Citation
M. G. Pullen and B. Wolter and A. Le and M. Baudisch and M. Hemmer and A. Senftleben and C. D. Schroeter and J. Ullrich and R. Moshammer and C. D. Lin and J. Biegert, "Extraction of the Bond Lengths of Aligned Acetylene using Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction," Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, Optical Society of America (OSA), Jun 2015.
Meeting Name
European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2015 (2015: Jun. 21-25, Munich, Germany)
Department(s)
Physics
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-146737475-0
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
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Citation
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text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2015 Optical Society of American (OSA), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jun 2015
