Impulsive Laser Induced Alignment of Molecules Dissolved in Helium Nanodroplets
- We show that a 450 fs nonresonant, moderately intense, linearly polarized laser pulse can induce field-free molecular axis alignment of methyliodide (CH3I) molecules dissolved in a helium nanodroplet. Time-resolved measurements reveal rotational dynamics much slower than that of isolated molecules and absence of the sharp transient alignment recurrences characteristic of gas phase molecules. Our results presage a range of new opportunities for exploring both molecular dynamics in a dissipative environment and the properties of He nanodroplets.
| Author: | Dominik Pentlehner, Jens H. Nielsen, Alkwin Slenczka, Klaus Mølmer, Henrik Stapelfeldt |
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| Parent Title (English): | Physical Review Letters |
| Document Type: | Contribution to a Periodical |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Tag: | Helium nanodroplets; mpulsive Laser Induced Alignment |
| Issue: | 110 |
| faculties / departments: | Fakultät für Chemische Technologie und Wirtschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 54 Chemie |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
