Probing molecular dynamics with attosecond resolution using correlated wave packet pairs

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6925, 2003, Pages 826-829

  Niikura, Hiromichi ^a   Legare F ^a,b   Hasbani, R ^a   Ivanov, Misha Yu ^a   Villeneuve, D M ^a   Corkum, P B ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; KRYPTON; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ATTOSECOND PHOTON PULSES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

KRYPTON;

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL METHOD;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; IONIZATION; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0037456373     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01430     Document Type: Article

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