Probing ultrafast internal conversion of o-xylene via femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5791-5801

  Liu, Yuzhu ^a,b   Tang, Bifeng ^c   Shen, Huan ^a,b   Zhang, Song ^a,b   Zhang, Bing ^a,b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c XIAOGAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; LASER PULSES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON; XYLENE;

FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; INTERNAL CONVERSIONS; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; O-XYLENE; REAL TIME; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-SCALES; ULTRA-FAST;

PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

XYLENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; XYLENES;

EID: 77949579344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005791     Document Type: Article

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