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Field-free three-dimensional alignment of polyatomic molecules

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.173001
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  1. National Research Council Canada. NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
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We experimentally demonstrate field-free, three-dimensional alignment (FF3DA) of polyatomic asymmetric top molecules. We achieve FF3DA in sulfur dioxide gas using two time-delayed, orthogonally polarized, nonresonant, femtosecond laser pulses. Our method avoids the use of rotational revivals and is therefore more robust to temperature. The alignment is probed using time-delayed coincidence Coulomb explosion imaging. FF3DA will be important for all molecular imaging, dynamics, or spectroscopy experiments for which random alignment leads to a loss of information.
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  • Physical Review Letters 97, no. 17, 173001 (26 October 2006): 173001-1–173001-4.
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