Molecular orbital imaging via above-threshold ionization with circularly polarized pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 13722-13731

  Zhu, Xiaosong ^a   Zhang, Qingbin ^a   Hong, Weiyi ^a   Lu, Peixiang ^a,b   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBES;

ABOVE-THRESHOLD IONIZATION; ANGLE-DEPENDENT; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LASERS; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRONIC ORBITALS; IONIZATION PROBABILITIES; LINEAR MOLECULES; LINEARLY POLARIZED; MOMENTUM SPECTRA; MULTI-SHOT; PROBE PULSE; SIMPLE METHOD; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 79960516203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013722     Document Type: Article

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