Mass-Resolved Momentum Imaging of Three Dichloroethylene Isomers by Femtosecond Laser-Induced Coulomb Explosion

Fragmentation of H2-molecules studied with laser-induced Coulomb explosion imaging and femtosecond pump-probe experiments

We report on the experimental realisation of time-resolved coincident Coulomb explosion imaging of H2-fragmentation in 10 W/cm laser fields. Combining a high-resolution ‘reaction microscope’ and a fs pump-probe setup, we map the motion of wave packets dissociating via oneor two-photon channels, respectively, and observe two region of enhanced ionization in accordance with earlier theoretical pr...

Laser Coulomb-explosion imaging of small molecules

F. Légaré, Kevin F. Lee, I. V. Litvinyuk, P. W. Dooley, S. S. Wesolowski, P. R. Bunker, P. Dombi, F. Krausz, A. D. Bandrauk, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6 Département de Chimie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1 Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ...

Identification of absolute geometries of cis and trans molecular isomers by Coulomb Explosion Imaging

An experimental route to identify and separate geometric isomers by means of coincident Coulomb explosion imaging is presented, allowing isomer-resolved photoionization studies on isomerically mixed samples. We demonstrate the technique on cis/trans 1,2-dibromoethene (C2H2Br2). The momentum correlation between the bromine ions in a three-body fragmentation process induced by bromine 3d inner-sh...

Investigation of the Formyl and Isoformyl Structural Isomers by Coulomb Explosion Imaging

Coulomb explosion of K-shell ionized krypton clusters studied by multiple-ion coincidence momentum imaging.

The Coulomb explosion of K-shell ionized krypton clusters with an average size N of 160 has been studied by electron-multiple-ion-coincidence measurements in which the time-of-flight (TOF) of ions was measured by using a position sensitive detector. The authors have sorted the TOF spectra by the number of coincidence ion signals, Ncoin, and found that singly charged fragment ions such as Kr+, K...