Manipulating external degrees of freedom with intense light: Laser focusing and trapping of molecules

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2881-2892

  Seideman, Tamar ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ETCHING; FOCUSING; IODINE; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR BEAMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; SILICON;

CENTER OF MASS MOTION; FOCAL LENGTH; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER FOCUSING; MOLECULAR TRAPPING;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031075580     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.473351     Document Type: Article

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