Dynamic Alignment of C2H4 Investigated by Using Two Linearly Polarized Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1717-1724

  Xu, Nan ^a   Wu, Chengyin ^a   Ma, Ri ^a   Huang, Juan ^a   Wu, Zhifeng ^a   Liang, Qingqing ^a   Yang, Hong ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOIONIZATION;

ANISOTROPIC ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS; COULOMB EXPLOSION; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LASER POLARIZATION;

ETHYLENE;

HYDROCARBON; ION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; IONIZATION; LASER; MOLECULE; POLARIZATION;

EID: 33751308670     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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