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Optically Probed Laser-Induced Field-Free Molecular Alignment

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Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VII

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Molecular alignment induced by laser fields has been investigated in research laboratories for over two decades. It led to a better understanding of the fundamental processes at play in the interaction of strong laser fields with molecules, and also provided significant contributions to the fields of high harmonic generation, laser spectroscopy, and laser filamentation. In this chapter, we discuss molecular alignment produced under field-free conditions, as resulting from the interaction of a laser pulse of duration shorter than the rotational period of the molecule. The experimental results presented will be confined to the optically probed alignment of linear as well as asymmetric top molecules. Special care will be taken to describe and compare various optical methods that can be employed to characterize laser-induced molecular alignment. Promising applications of optically probed molecular alignment will be also demonstrated.

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Thanks are due to present and former PhD students of our research group, M. Renard, V. Renard, A. Rouzée, V. Loriot, R. Tehini, and T. Vieillard for their contributions to the research presented here. We thank S. Guérin, D. Sugny, H. R. Jauslin, and V. Boudon for the theoretical support that our work has benefited. The authors are grateful to S. Couris for critical reading of the manuscript. This work has been supported by the CNRS, the Conseil Regional de Bourgogne, the ACI PHOTONIQUE, the ANR COMOC, the Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant MODISH of the 6th RTD FP, and the FASTQUAST ITN Program of the 7th RTD FP.

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Faucher, O., Lavorel, B., Hertz, E., Chaussard, F. (2011). Optically Probed Laser-Induced Field-Free Molecular Alignment. In: Yamanouchi, K., Charalambidis, D., Normand, D. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science VII. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18327-0_4

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