Laser-driven clockwise molecular rotation for a transient spinning waveplate

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13671-13676

  York, Andrew G ^a  

^a The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; MOLECULES; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

COPROPAGATING; FEMTOSECONDS; LINEAR MOLECULES; MOLECULAR ROTATIONS; PULSE PAIRS; SUBPICOSECOND; TIME-SCALES; WAVEPLATES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROTATION; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 68349130308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013671     Document Type: Article

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