Ultrafast laser ablation of fused silica is studied using molecular dynamics simulations. Ionization and generation of free electrons, absorption of the laser energy by free electrons and energy coupling between free electrons and ions are considered. The BKS potential is applied and modified to describe molecular interactions and the effect of free electrons. Smooth particle mesh of the Ewald ...

An integrated Laser Ablation Fluid RAdiation simulation Code (LAFRAC) has been developed to estimate behaviors of highly energetic ions and neutral particles from laser produced plasmas, and to estimate ionization and recombination processes. Neutral particles cannot be controlled by electric and/or magnetic forces. Therefore, estimation of the number of neutral particles and mitigation of them...

Iron oxide (FemOn) neutral clusters are generated in the gas phase through laser ablation of the metal and reaction with various concentrations of O2 in He. The mixture of expansion gas and neutral FemOn cluster species is expanded through a supersonic nozzle into a vacuum system, in which the clusters are ionized by an ArF excimer laser at 193 nm, and the ions are detected and identified in a ...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to detect serum proteomic patterns in gastric cancer serum samples using Surface-enhanced Laser Desorption/ionization-Time-of-flight-Mass Spectrometry ProteinChip array technology, to screen biomarker candidates, to build diagnostic models and to evaluate their clinical significance. METHODS Serum samples from patients with gastric cancer and normal healt...

A novel ab initio numerical approach is developed and applied that solves the time-dependent Schrödinger equation describing two-electron diatomic molecules (e.g. molecular hydrogen) exposed to an intense ultrashort laser pulse. The method is based on the fixed-nuclei and the non-relativistic dipole approximations and aims to accurately describe both correlated electrons in full dimensionality....

The propagation of short, intense laser pulses in the atmosphere is investigated theoretically and numerically. A set of three-dimensional (3D), nonlinear propagation equations is derived, which includes the effects of dispersion, nonlinear self-focusing, stimulated molecular Raman scattering, multiphoton and tunneling ionization, energy depletion due to ionization, relativistic focusing, and p...

To clarify the ionization mechanism of large molecules under multi-photon ionization conditions, photo-electron spectroscopic studies on anthracene have been performed with electron imaging technique. Electron kinetic energy distributions below a few eV reveal that three kinds of ionization channels coexist, viz., vertical ionization, ionization from Rydberg states, and thermionic hot electron ...

We present measurements of the pulse length of ultracold electron bunches generated by near-threshold two-photon photoionization of a laser-cooled gas. The pulse length has been measured using a resonant 3 GHz deflecting cavity in TM110 mode. We have measured the pulse length in three ionization regimes. The first is direct two-photon photoionization using only a 480 nm femtosecond laser pulse,...

We present and analyze results of ab initio computations of nonsequential double ionization of the hydrogen molecule in a few-cycle intense laser pulse. To this end, we have used a model of planar molecules with static nuclei, in which the electronic center-of-mass motion is restricted along the polarization direction of the linearly polarized laser. Alignment of the internuclear axis parallel ...

The probability of multiple ionization of krypton by 50 femtosecond circularly polarized laser pulses, independent of the optical focal geometry, has been obtained for the first time. The excellent agreement over the intensity range 10 TWcm to 10 PWcm with the recent predictions of A. S. Kornev et al [Phys. Rev. A 68, 043414 (2003)] provides the first experimental confirmation that non-recollis...