Intense ultrashort light pulses comprising merely a few wave cycles became routinely
available by the turn of the millennium. The technologies underlying their production and …

This paper reviews recent theoretical and experimental developments aimed at controlling
molecular motion using tailored laser fields. Emphasis is given to seeking optimal designs …

We demonstrate that molecules with a moderate permanent dipole moment can be oriented
with combined electrostatic and pulsed, nonresonant laser fields. We use OCS molecules as …

Directly imaging structural dynamics involving hydrogen atoms by ultrafast diffraction
methods is complicated by their low scattering cross sections. Here we demonstrate that …

Ultrashort x-ray pulses from free-electron lasers can efficiently charge up and trigger the full
fragmentation of molecules. By coincident detection of up to five ions resulting from rapid …

We report the observation and characterization of a new nonresonant strong field ionization
mechanism in polyatomic molecules: Nonadiabatic multi-electron (NME) dynamics. The …

We report on the experimental realization of time-resolved coincident Coulomb explosion
imaging of H 2 fragmentation in 10 14 W/cm 2 laser fields. Combining a high-resolution …

The photodissociation dynamics of CH 3 I and CH 2 ClI at 272 nm were investigated by time-
resolved Coulomb explosion imaging, with an intense non-resonant 815 nm probe pulse …

Coulomb explosion imaging is proposed as a method to directly map the presence of
conical intersections encountered by a propagating wave packet in a molecular system. The …

We have measured coincident ion pairs produced in the Coulomb explosion of H 2 by 8–30
fs laser pulses at different laser intensities. We show how the Coulomb explosion of H 2 can …