Quantum control of molecular rotation

CP Koch, M Lemeshko, D Sugny - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
The angular momentum of molecules, or, equivalently, their rotation in three-dimensional
space, is ideally suited for quantum control. Molecular angular momentum is naturally …

Ultrafast imaging of isolated molecules with electron diffraction

M Centurion - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent advances in ultrafast electron diffraction offer the possibility to image isolated
molecules with sub-Angstrom spatial resolution in ultrafast time scales. In particular …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of three-dimensional molecular structure from diffraction of laser-aligned molecules

J Yang, V Makhija, V Kumarappan, M Centurion - Structural Dynamics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Diffraction from laser-aligned molecules has been proposed as a method for determining 3-
D molecular structures in the gas phase. However, existing structural retrieval algorithms are …

Deconvoluting nonaxial recoil in Coulomb explosion measurements of molecular axis alignment

L Christensen, L Christiansen, B Shepperson… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We report a quantitative study of the effect of nonaxial recoil during Coulomb explosion of
laser-aligned molecules and introduce a method to remove the blurring caused by nonaxial …

[HTML][HTML] Communication: Switched wave packets with spectrally truncated chirped pulses

AS Chatterley, ET Karamatskos, C Schouder… - The journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A new technique for obtaining switched wave packets using spectrally truncated chirped
laser pulses is demonstrated experimentally and numerically by one-dimensional alignment …

Interferometric quantum control (IQC) by fs/ns rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (RCARS)

M Raveesh, A Dominguez, M Linne, J Bood… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A new rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (RCARS) concept based on
interferometric quantum control (IQC) is demonstrated. Two wavepackets originating from …

Orientation resolution through rotational coherence spectroscopy

V Makhija, X Ren, D Gockel, AT Le… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
The rich information content of measurements in the molecular frame rather than the
laboratory frame has motivated the development of several methods for aligning gas phase …

[HTML][HTML] High harmonic generation spectroscopy via orbital angular momentum

J Troß, CA Trallero-Herrero - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We present an experimental technique using orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a
fundamental laser field to drive high harmonic generation (HHG). The mixing of beams with …

HOMO-1 orbital cross section revealed through high-order-harmonic generation

J Troß, X Ren, V Makhija, S Mondal, V Kumarappan… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We measure multi-orbital contributions to high harmonic generation from aligned nitrogen.
We show that the change in revival structure in the cutoff harmonics has a counterpart in the …

Single-shot coherent control of molecular rotation by fs/ns rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy

A Hosseinnia, M Raveesh, A Dominguez… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel method, to our knowledge, to control the shape of the spectra using 2-
beam hybrid femtosecond (fs)/nanosecond (ns) coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering …