Femtosecond extreme ultraviolet ion imaging of ultrafast dynamics in electronically excited helium nanodroplets

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 308-317

  Bünermann, Oliver ^a,b   Kornilov, Oleg ^c   Leone, Stephen R ^a,b   Neumark, Daniel M ^a   Gessner, Oliver ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Photochemistry; photonics; physics; UV sources

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; EXCITATION REGIME; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; FEMTOSECONDS; HELIUM NANODROPLETS; INTRABAND RELAXATION; ION IMAGING; ION KINETIC ENERGY; ION MASS; ION-IMAGING TECHNIQUE; IONIZATION DYNAMICS; PHOTON ENERGY; PUMP-PROBE; RYDBERG; SURFACE STATE; SYNCHROTRON MEASUREMENTS; TIME-DELAY-DEPENDENT; TIME-SCALES; TWO PHOTON IONIZATION; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS; UV SOURCES;

HELIUM; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; PROBES; SURFACE STATES;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84856952175     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2109054     Document Type: Article

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