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We report recent progress in experimental studies on laser-assisted electron scattering (LAES) processes induced by ultrashort laser pulses. Observation of LAES processes induced by femtosecond laser pulses is reported. As an application of this femtosecond-LAES process, a new method of time-resolved gas electron diffraction for determining instantaneous geometrical structures of molecules with high precision is proposed, and its feasibility is demonstrated by the measurements of LAES signals from CCl4 molecules.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 24245003, 24750011, 26288004, 24-4164 and 15H05696.
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Morimoto, Y., Kanya, R., Yamanouchi, K. (2017). Laser-Assisted Electron Scattering and Diffraction for Ultrafast Imaging of Atoms and Molecules. In: Yamanouchi, K. (eds) Progress in Photon Science. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 115. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52431-3_5
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