| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M08257/01 |
| Title: |
SHORT PULSE LASER INTERACTIONS WITH POSITIVE IONS AND MOLECULES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Newell, Professor WR |
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Physics and Astronomy |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1998 |
Ends: |
30 June 2000 |
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143,863
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This is an investigation of the interaction of intense (~1017w/cm2 ) laser radiation (800 nm) with molecules and positive molecular ions by MEDI. Although all natural molecular rotational and most vibrational motion is frozen in a 50 fs pulse the molecule will interest dynamically with the laser field. This produces orbital distortions resulting in molecular stretching to new equilibrium positions (~2 xRo) and induced bending in which a linear (q = 180o) molecule can bend to q = 90o before dissociating. In addition, molecular re-alignments, resulting from the anistropic polarization, produces fragmenting ions along directions orthogonal to the molecular symmetry axis Cn. This research is in a study of these dynamical interactions within high density laser fields directly observing the angular distributions of fragmentation molecular ions and by initially preparing molecules in a distribution of excited vibrational states. We also seek to determine the role of primary single molecular ionization in the laser field by producing independently a beam of molecular positive ions. This will aid the distinction between sequential and non-sequential multi-electron ionization.
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