Intensity-resolved ionization yields of aniline with femtosecond laser pulses Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present experimental results for the ionization of aniline and benzene molecules subjected to intense ultrashort laser pulses. Measured parent molecular ions yields were obtained using a recently developed technique capable of three-dimensional imaging of ion distributions within the focus of a laser beam. By selecting ions originating from the central region of the focus, where the spatial intensity distribution is nearly uniform, volumetric-free intensity-dependent ionization yields were obtained. The measured data revealed a previously unseen resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI)-like process. Comparison of benzene, aniline, and Xe ion yields demonstrates that the observed intensity-dependent structures are not due to geometric artifacts in the focus. Finally for intensities greater than 310 13 W/cm 2 , we attribute the ionization of aniline to a stepwise process going through the * state which sits three photons above the ground state and two photons below the continuum. 2011 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

  • Strohaber, J., Mohamed, T., Hart, N., Zhu, F., Nava, R., Pham, F., ... Schuessler, H. A.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Strohaber, J||Mohamed, T||Hart, N||Zhu, F||Nava, R||Pham, F||Kolomenskii, AA||Schroeder, H||Paulus, GG||Schuessler, HA

publication date

  • December 2011