"Slow" Molecular Fragmentation after Ultrafast Interaction. (August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Larimian, Seyedreza; Erattupuzha, Sonia; Lötstedt, Erik; Szidarovszky, Tamas; Maurer, Raffael; Roither, Stefan; Schöffler, Markus; Kartashov, Daniil; Baltuška, Andrius; Yamanouchi, Kaoru; Kitzler, Markus; Xie, Xinhua
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Number 635(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-08
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/635/11/112069
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Synopsis: We report experimental observation of "slow" fragmentation from ethylene molecules on nanosecond or even microsecond timescale after their interaction with femtosecond laser pulses. Our results indicate that such fragmentation process originates from meta-stable high-lying vibrational states of ethylene ions.