The goal of the present article is to review the major developments that have led to the
current understanding of molecule–field interactions and experimental methods for …

We report a direct nonintrusive observation of alignment and planar delocalization of CO 2
after an intense linearly polarized femtosecond laser pulse excitation. The effects are …

The angular distribution of the ionic fragments from multiphoton dissociative ionization of
diatomic molecules shows a pronounced anisotropy. Calculations within the field-ionization …

A tutorial for calculating the response of molecules to electric and magnetic fields with
examples from research in ultracold physics, controlled chemistry, and molecular collisions …

Using circular and linear laser polarization for strong-field dissociative ionization we show
that iodine molecules are rotationally fixed by their own moment of inertia during the …

Direct experimental evidence is presented for the formation of aligned states of the linear
triatomic molecules CO 2 and CS 2; manifestation of pendular motion is obtained in high …

CS 2 is identified as a molecule for which distinction can be made between dynamic and
geometric alignment induced by intense laser fields. Measured anisotropic angular …

Mass spectrometry experiments have been performed to probe the morphology of
dissociative ionization of a ring molecule benzene when it is immersed in a laser field of 35 …

The nonlinear interaction of the triatomic molecules CS 2 and CO 2 with the intense field of a
linearly polarized laser beam of femtosecond (fs) pulse duration, was used to study the …

This article presents an overview of the physics and applications of the interaction of high
intensity laser light with matter. It traces the crucial advances that have occurred over the …