Time-resolved Coulomb explosion imaging: A method to measure structure and dynamics of molecular nuclear wave packets

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 426-433

  Stapelfeldt, Henrik ^a   Constant, Eric ^a,b   Sakai, Hirofumi ^a,c   Corkum, Paul B ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

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EID: 7044257395     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.426     Document Type: Article

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