Rotational Dynamics of Quantum State-Selected Symmetric-Top Molecules in Nonresonant Femtosecond Laser Fields

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• 作者：Sizuo LuoWenhui Hu ; Jiaqi Yu ; Ruihan Zhu ; Lanhai He ; Xiaokai Li ; Pan Ma ; Chuncheng Wang ; Fuchun Liu ; Wim G. Roeterdink ; Steven Stolte ; Dajun Ding
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：121
• 期：4
• 页码：777-783
• 全文大小：448K
• ISSN：1520-5215

文摘

Rotational dynamics of quantum state selected and unselected CH₃I molecules in intense femtosecond laser fields has been studied. The orientation and alignment evolutions are derived from a pump–probe measurement and in good agreement with the numerical results from the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) calculation. The different rotational transitions through nonresonant Raman process have been assigned from the Fourier analysis of the orientation and alignment revivals. These revivals are derived from a pump–probe measurement and in good agreement with the numerical results from the TDSE calculation. For the molecules in rotational state |1, ±1, ∓1⟩, the transitions can be assigned to ΔJ = ±1, ±2, while for thermally populated molecules, the transitions are ΔJ = ±2. Our results illustrate that the orientation and alignment revivals of the rotational quantum-state-selected molecules give a deep insight into the rotational excitation pathways for the transition of different rotational states of molecules in ultrafast laser fields.