Session M6: Poster Session III

4:00 PM–4:00 PM, Friday, May 20, 2005
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Lancaster 4:00-5:30 pm

Abstract: M6.00090 : Strong-field ionization of dynamically aligned molecules

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Authors:

  Igor Litvinyuk
  Ali Alnaser
  Irina Bocharova
  Chakra Maharjan
  Lew Cocke
    (Kansas State University)

In a pump-probe experiment molecules (N2, O2) were first dynamically aligned by creating coherent rotational wavepackets with a 30 fs 800 nm pump pulse, and then singly ionized by a properly delayed more intense probe pulse. The momentum distributions of electrons and ions produced by the tunneling strong-field ionization were measured for different alignments of molecular axes with respect to electric field vector.