Impulsive orientation and alignment of quantum-state-selected NO molecules

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 289-293

  Ghafur, Omair ^a   Rouzée, Arnaud ^a   Gijsbertsen, Arjan ^a   Siu, Wing Kiu ^a   Stolte, Steven ^b,c   Vrakking, Marc J J ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; EXCITED STATES; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LASER EXCITATION; LASER PULSES; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES;

COLLISION EXPERIMENTS; DEGREE OF ORIENTATION; HETERONUCLEAR MOLECULES; INTENSE LASER FIELD; LABORATORY FRAME; MOLECULAR PROCESS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; REACTION DYNAMICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 63849180267     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1225     Document Type: Article

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