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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 114, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.103003
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- excellence cluster The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging-Structure, Dynamics and Control of Matter at the Atomic Scale of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Mildred Dresselhaus Award
- Spanish project (MICINN) (Junta de Andalucia) [FIS2011-24540, P11-FQM-7276, FQM-4643]
- Andalusian research group [FQM-207]
- Joachim Herz Stiftung
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We demonstrate strong laser-field-free orientation of absolute-ground-state carbonyl sulfide molecules. The molecules are oriented by the combination of a 485-ps-long nonresonant laser pulse and a weak static electric field. The edges of the laser pulse create a coherent superposition of two rotational states resulting in revivals of strong transient molecular orientation after the laser pulse. The experimentally attained degree of orientation [cos theta] approximate to 0.6 corresponds to the theoretical maximum for mixing of the two states. Switching off the dc field would provide the same orientation completely field free.
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