Journal
SCIENCE
Volume 335, Issue 6074, Pages 1336-1340Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1212896
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Subcycle strong-field ionization (SFI) underlies many emerging spectroscopic probes of atomic or molecular attosecond electronic dynamics. Extending methods such as attosecond high harmonic generation spectroscopy to complex polyatomic molecules requires an understanding of multielectronic excitations, already hinted at by theoretical modeling of experiments on atoms, diatomics, and triatomics. Here, we present a direct method which, independent of theory, experimentally probes the participation of multiple electronic continua in the SFI dynamics of polyatomic molecules. We use saturated (n-butane) and unsaturated (1,3-butadiene) linear hydrocarbons to show how subcycle SFI of polyatomics can be directly resolved into its distinct electronic-continuum channels by above-threshold ionization photoelectron spectroscopy. Our approach makes use of photoelectron-photofragment coincidences, suiting broad classes of polyatomic molecules.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available