Imaging the time-dependent structure of a molecule as it undergoes dynamics

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Legare, F
Lee, KF
Litvinyuk, IV
Dooley, PW
Bandrauk, AD
Villeneuve, DM
Corkum, PB
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2005
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We image the dynamics of diatomic and triatomic molecules with sub-5 fs and sub-A resolution using laser Coulomb explosion imaging with 8 fs pulses. We obtain image information by measuring the vector momenta of all atomic ions produced by explosion of a single molecule. We image vibrating D{sub 2}{sup +} and of dissociating SO{sub 2}{sup 2+} and SO{sub 2}{sup 3+}. Images taken at 0 and 60 fs show that the dissociation of SO{sub 2}{sup 2+} produces an SO{sup +} rotational wave packet.

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Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)

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72

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5

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Mathematical sciences

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Atomic and molecular physics

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