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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 124, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2150467
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A simple method to generate and characterize a pure highly vibrationally excited azulene molecular beam is demonstrated. Azulene molecules initially excited to the S-4 state by 266-nm UV photons reach high vibrationally excited levels of the ground electronic state upon rapid internal conversion from the S-4 electronically excited state. VUV laser beams at 157 and 118 nm, respectively, are used to characterize the relative concentrations of the highly vibrationally excited azulene and the rotationally and vibrationally cooled azulene in the molecular beam. With a laser intensity of 34 mJ/cm(2), 75% of azulene molecules absorb a single 266-nm photon and become highly vibrationally excited molecules. The remaining ground-state azulene molecules absorb two or more UV photons, ending up either as molecular cations, which are repelled out of the beam by an electric field, or as dissociation fragments, which veer off the molecular-beam axis. No azulene without absorption of UV photons is left in the molecular beam. The molecular beam that contains only highly vibrationally excited molecules and carrier gas is useful in various experiments related to the studies of highly vibrationally excited molecules. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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