| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Laser Coulomb-explosion imaging of small molecules (PDF, 289 KiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.013415 |
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| Author | Search for: Légaré, F.1; Search for: Lee, Kevin1; Search for: Litvinyuk, I.; Search for: Dooley, P.1; Search for: Wesolowski, S.S.1; Search for: Bunker, Philip1; Search for: Dombi, P.; Search for: Krausz, F.; Search for: Bandrauk, A.D.; Search for: Villeneuve, D.1; Search for: Corkum, P.B.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Abstract | We use intense few-cycle laser pulses to ionize molecules to the point of Coulomb explosion. We use Coulomb’s law or ab initio potentials to reconstruct the molecular structure of D2O and SO2 from the correlated momenta of exploded fragments. For D2O, a light and fast system, we observed about 0.3Å and 15° deviation from the known bond length and bond angle. By simulating the Coulomb explosion for equilibrium geometry, we showed that this deviation is mainly caused by ion motion during ionization. Measuring three-dimensional structure with half bond length resolution is sufficient to observe large-scale rearrangements of small molecules such as isomerization processes. |
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| Publication date | 2005-01-19 |
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| Publisher | American Physical Society |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NPARC number | 12339348 |
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| Record identifier | 7320bcc5-83fb-4b3e-ae16-50976d0f02a9 |
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| Record created | 2009-09-11 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-07 |
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