Laser Control and Manipulation of Molecules

This book details advances in the studies of chemical dynamics and photochemistry using emerging laser technologies. It examines both theoretical and experimental advances in this field and includes such topics as efficient selectivity in chemical reactions, new pulse shaping techniques, and new tool for realistic control and manipulation of molecules.

Preface

xi

Coherent Optimal Control

Controlling Molecular Motion: The Molecule Knows Best

2

(14)

Herschel Rabitz

Variations on the Theme of Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage: Control of Chemical Reactions

16

(16)

Suhail P. Shah

Vandana Kurkal

Stuart A. Rice

Laser Control of Selective Preparation of Preoriented Enantiomers from their Racemate

32

(15)

K. Hoki

Y. Fujimura

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Channel Phase in the Coherent Control of Molecular Processes

47

(14)

Richard Billotto

Ani Khachatrian

Langchi Zhu

Robert J. Gordon

Helene Lefebvre-Brion

Tamar Seidman

Four-Wave Mixing and Coherent Control

61

(20)

Vadim V. Lozovoy

Matthew Comstock

Marcos Dantus

Control of Chemical Reactions by Using Chirped Laser Pulses

81

(17)

Junichi Shimamura

Kenji Mishima

Koichi Yamashita

Selective Excitation among Closely Lying Multilevels

98

(20)

Kuninobu Nagaya

Yoshiaki Teranishi

Hiroki Nakamura

Laser Manipulation of Differential Autoionization Yields: Pump-Dump Control through Coupled Channels

118

(14)

R. R Jones

S. N. Pisharody

R. van Leeuwen

Optimal Quantum Control in Dissipative Environments: General Formalism and Perturbative Limits

132

(12)

Seogjoo Jang

Jianshu Cao

Manifestation of Coherence on Laser Pulse Propagation: Propagation Dynamics of Phase-Controlled Lasers

144

(11)

Takashi Nakajima

Double-Pulse Manipulation of Vibrational Wavepackets in HgAr van der Waal Complex

155

(16)

Y. Sato

H. Chiba

M. Nakamura

K.Ohmori

Real-Time Spectroscopy of Molecular Vibration Using sub-5-fs Pulses

171

(19)

Takayoshi Kobayashi

Akira Shirakawa

Takao Fuji

Intense Fields

Quantum Control by Adaptive Femtosecond Pulse Shaping: Application to CH2 BrCl in the Gas Phase and [Ru(dpb)3]2+ in the Solution Phase

190

(17)

Niels H. Damrauer

Gustav Gerber

The Mechanisms of Strong-Field Control of Chemical Reactivity Using Tailored Laser Pulses

207

(14)

Noel P. Moore

Getahun M. Menkir

Alexei N. Markevitch

Paul Graham

Robert J. Levis

Laser-Phase Control of Dissociative Ionization of Molecules: Exact Non-Born-Oppenheimer Simulations for H2+

221

(15)

A. D. Bandrauk

J. Levesque

S. Chelkowski

Molecular Restructuring in Intense IR Laser Fields

236

(15)

T. Tung Nguyen-Dang

H. Abou-Rachid

N. A. Nguyen

N. Mireault

O. Atabek

Ultrafast Dynamics of Molecules in Intense Laser-Light Fields: New Research Directions

251

(16)

Kaoru Yamanouchi

Intense-Laser-Induced Electron Transfer and Structure Deformation of Molecules

267

(19)

Hirohiko Kono

Shiro Koseki

Alignment and Manipulation

Manipulating Molecules via Combined Electrostatic and Pulsed Nonresonant Laser Fields

286

(18)

Long Cai

Bretislav Friedrich

Prospects for All-Optical Alignment and Quantum State Control of Nonpolar Molecules

304

(16)

A. M. Lyyra

F. C. Spano

J. Qi

T. Kirova

Alignment of Neutral Molecules by a Strong Nonresonant Linearly Polarized Laser Field

320

(16)

Hirofumi Sakai

Jakob Juul Larsen

C. P. Safvan

Ida Wendt-Larsen

Henrik Stapelfeldt

Tsuneto Kanai

Propensity of Molecules to Spatially Align in Linearly Polarized, Intense Light Fields

336

(15)

D. Mathur

S. Banerjee

G. Ravindra Kumar

Author Index

351

(1)

Subject Index

352

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