Observation of enhanced field-free molecular alignment by two laser pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Bisgaard, Christer Z ^a   Poulsen, Mikael D ^a   Péronne, Emmanuel ^a,b   Viftrup, Simon S ^a   Stapelfeldt, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IODINE COMPOUNDS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULES; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ENERGY CONSTANT; FIELD-FREE MOLECULAR ALIGNMENT; LINEAR MOLECULES; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

EID: 2942551383     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.173004     Document Type: Article

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