• DocumentCode
    500649
  • Title

    Impulsive alignment of N2 with a train of 8 pulses

  • Author

    Coffee, Ryan N. ; Cryan, James P. ; Bucksbaum, Phil H.

  • Author_Institution
    SLAC Nat. Accel. Lab., PULSE Inst. for Ultrafast Energy Sci., Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a scheme that exploits the time periodicity of rigid rotors by breaking a single strong alignment pulse into an eight pulse train. Our results show langcos2 thetasrang > 0.6 in nitrogen gas at 1 ATM and 300 K.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; molecule-photon collisions; nitrogen; N2; impulsive alignment; nitrogen gas; pulse train; temperature 300 K; time periodicity; Bandwidth; Nitrogen; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Polarization; Probes; Pulse measurements; (020:1670) Coherent optical effects; (020:2649) Strong field laser physics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5226063