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Resonance Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization (REMPI) utilizes tunable dye lasers to ionize an atom or molecule by first preparing an excited state by multiphoton absorption and then ionizing that state before it can decay. This process is highly selective with respect to both the initial and resonant intermediate states of the target, and it can be extremely sensitive. In addition, the products of the REMPI process can be detected as needed by analyzing the resulting electrons, ions, fluorescence, or by additional REMPI. This points to a number of opportunities for exploring excited state physics and chemistry at the quantum-state-specific level. Here we will first give a brief overview of the large variety of experimental approaches to excited state phenomena made possible by REMPI. Then we will examine in more detail, recent studies of the three photon resonant, four photon (3+1) ionization of H2 via the C 1Πu state. Strong non-Franck-Condon behavior in the photoelectron spectra of this nominally simple Rydberg state has led to the examination of a variety of dynamical mechanisms. Of these, the role of doubly excited autoionizing states now seems decisive. Progress on photoelectron studies of autoionizing states in H2, excited in a (2+1) REMPI process via the E,F 1Σ +g will also be briefly discussed.
Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Health & Environmental Research, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38, and by Office of Naval Research.
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Dehmer, J.L., O’Halloran, M.A., Tomkins, F.S., Dehmer, P.M., Pratt, S.T. (1988). Photoionization Dynamics of Excited Molecular States. In: Burke, P.G., West, J.B. (eds) Electron-Molecule Scattering and Photoionization. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1049-5_1
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