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Nonadiabatic Molecular Alignment and Orientation

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Abstract

In this chapter, we review recent researches on nonadiabatic molecular alignment and orientation induced by intense nonresonant short laser pulses. In addition to a typical femtosecond pump-probe method to probe dynamics of a rotational wave packet, a novel method to study molecular alignment is introduced. We focus on recent spectroscopic studies carried out in the frequency domain that demonstrate that both amplitude (population) and phase of the rotational wave packet can be reconstructed by combining femtosecond and nanosecond pulses.We also demonstrate the creation of the peculiar rotational wave packet corresponding to right- or left-handed rotation.

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Hasegawa, H., Ohshima, Y. (2015). Nonadiabatic Molecular Alignment and Orientation. In: Yamanouchi, K., Roso, L., Li, R., Mathur, D., Normand, D. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII. Springer Series in Chemical Physics(), vol 112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23657-5_3

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