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Following a chemical reaction using high-harmonic interferometry

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  • H. J. Wörner

    (Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science, National Research Council of Canada and University of Ottawa, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada)

  • J. B. Bertrand

    (Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science, National Research Council of Canada and University of Ottawa, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada)

  • D. V. Kartashov

    (Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science, National Research Council of Canada and University of Ottawa, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
    Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien, Gusshausstr. 25-29, 1040 Wien, Austria)

  • P. B. Corkum

    (Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science, National Research Council of Canada and University of Ottawa, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada)

  • D. M. Villeneuve

    (Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science, National Research Council of Canada and University of Ottawa, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada)

Abstract

Reaction tracking with high-harmonic spectroscopy New methods are emerging that aim to image chemical reactions as they occur, using X-ray diffraction, electron diffraction or laser-induced recollision. But none of these methods offer spectral selection, which allows a laser pulse with light of one wavelength to initiate a reaction, and a second pulse with another, appropriately selected wavelength to monitor the reacting molecules. Wörner et al. now show that this apparent limitation offers exciting opportunities for recollision-based high-harmonic spectroscopy: due to the coherent nature of the attosecond high-harmonic pulse generation, unexcited molecules can act as local oscillators against which structural and electronic dynamics is observed on an attosecond timescale. High-harmonic spectroscopy thus seems ideally suited to measure coupled electronic and nuclear dynamics in fast photochemical reactions, or to characterize short-lived transition states.

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  • H. J. Wörner & J. B. Bertrand & D. V. Kartashov & P. B. Corkum & D. M. Villeneuve, 2010. "Following a chemical reaction using high-harmonic interferometry," Nature, Nature, vol. 466(7306), pages 604-607, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:466:y:2010:i:7306:d:10.1038_nature09185
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09185
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