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Journal of Chemical Physics / Volume 135 / Issue 22 / ARTICLES / Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry

J. Chem. Phys. 135, 224308 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3666850 (4 pages)

Field-free molecular alignment control by phase-shaped femtosecond laser pulse

Shian Zhang1, Chenhui Lu1, Tianqing Jia1, Zhenrong Sun1, and Jianrong Qiu2

1State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, and Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China
2State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, and Institute of Optical Communication Materials, South China University of Technology, Wushan Road 381, Guangzhou 510640, People's Republic of China

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(Received 17 October 2011; accepted 16 November 2011; published online 14 December 2011)

In this paper, we theoretically show that the field-free molecular alignment can be controlled by shaping the femtosecond laser pulse with a periodic phase step modulation, involving the maximum degree and temporal structure of the molecular alignment. We show that the molecular alignment can be completely suppressed or reconstructed as that by the transform-limited laser pulse, the temporal structure of the alignment transient can be controlled with a desired shape, and the molecular alignment and antialignment for any temporal structure can be switched. Furthermore, we also show that both the degree and direction of the molecular alignment at a fix time delay can be continuously modulated.

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  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. THEORY
  3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
  4. CONCLUSIONS

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molecule-photon collisions, multiphoton processes, optical pulse shaping

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0021-9606 (print)  
1089-7690 (online)

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