Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

All-optical field-free three-dimensional orientation of asymmetric-top molecules

  • Kang Lin,
  • Ilia Tutunnikov,
  • Junjie Qiang,
  • Junyang Ma,
  • Qiying Song,
  • Qinying Ji,
  • Wenbin Zhang,
  • Hanxiao Li,
  • Fenghao Sun,
  • Xiaochun Gong,
  • Hui Li,
  • Peifen Lu,
  • Heping Zeng,
  • Yehiam Prior,
  • Ilya Sh. Averbukh,
  • Jian Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07567-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Alignment and orientation of the molecules allows studying the photon-molecule interactions in greater detail. Here the authors demonstrate the three-dimensional orientation of SO2 molecules in using COLTRIMS and orthogonally polarized laser pulses but in the absence of DC field.