Imaging and Control of Interfering Wave Packets in a Dissociating Molecule

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 13, 2002, Pages

  Skovsen, Esben ^a   Machholm, Mette ^b   Ejdrup, Tine ^a   Thøgersen, Jan ^a   Stapelfeldt, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NORDITA   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IODINE; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MOLECULAR BEAMS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); SOLID STATE LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

INTERNUCLEAR DENSITY FUNCTION;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0037163798     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.133004     Document Type: Article

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