Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Monitoring ultrafast vibrational dynamics of isotopic molecules with frequency modulation of high-order harmonics

  • Lixin He,
  • Qingbin Zhang,
  • Pengfei Lan,
  • Wei Cao,
  • Xiaosong Zhu,
  • Chunyang Zhai,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Wenjing Shi,
  • Muzi Li,
  • Xue-Bin Bian,
  • Peixiang Lu,
  • André D. Bandrauk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03568-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Previous studies on high harmonic generation from molecules have been used to identify the spectral properties and orbital contributions. Here the authors measure the isotopic effects in the energy shift of the HHG spectra caused by the nuclear motion of the molecules.