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When a molecule is exposed to an intense laser pulse, electrons that are removed earlier in the laser field may be driven back by the oscillating electric field of the laser to recollide with the target ion. The rescattering of the returning electrons, analogous to the scattering by free electrons, offers the opportunities to probe the structure of the molecule. Since lasers of pulse duration of a few femtoseconds are already available, thus it is possible to use few-femtosecond lasers for dynamic imaging of transient molecules. The basic scattering theories for dynamic quantum imaging of molecules are discussed.
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Lin, C.D., Le, AT., Chen, Z. (2011). Theory of Dynamic Imaging of Molecules with Intense Infrared Laser Pulses. In: Bandrauk, A., Ivanov, M. (eds) Quantum Dynamic Imaging. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9491-2_7
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