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Controlling Fragmentation Reactions of Polyatomic Molecules with Impulsive Laser Alignment

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Ultrafast Phenomena XIX

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We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate channel-selective control over strong-field induced fragmentation of a polyatomic molecule, acetylene, using impulsive laser alignment as the control mechanism.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge financial support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grants No. P21463-N22, No. P25615-N27 and No. SFB-F49 NEXTlite, and by a starting grant from the ERC (project CyFi).

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  1. Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 27, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Markus Schöffler, Daniil Kartashov, Sonia Erattupuzha, Andrius Baltuška & Markus Kitzler

  2. Institute for Physical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Katharina Doblhoff-Dier & Stefanie Gräfe

  3. State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China

    Huailiang Xu

  4. Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Tim Rathje & Gerhard G. Paulus

  5. Helmholtz Institute Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Tim Rathje & Gerhard G. Paulus

  6. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Kaoru Yamanouchi

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kaoru Yamanouchi

  2. JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Steven Cundiff

  3. Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany

    Regina de Vivie-Riedle

  4. Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

  5. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Louis DiMauro

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Xie, X. et al. (2015). Controlling Fragmentation Reactions of Polyatomic Molecules with Impulsive Laser Alignment. In: Yamanouchi, K., Cundiff, S., de Vivie-Riedle, R., Kuwata-Gonokami, M., DiMauro, L. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XIX. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_33

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