Instantaneous nonvertical electronic transitions with shaped femtosecond laser pulses: Is it possible?

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2569-2576

  Henriksen, Niels E ^a   Møller, Klaus B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; MODULATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0043014588     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1586701     Document Type: Article

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