The dissociation pathways of N2+ in intense femtosecond laser fields
Chen De-Ying(陈德应)a)† , Zhang Sheng(张盛)a)b), and Xia Yuan-Qin(夏元钦)a)
a National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China; b Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Abstract Using a neutral N2 beam as target, this paper studies the dissociation of N2+ in intense femtosecond laser fields (45 fs, ~1×1016 W/cm2) at the laser wavelength of 800 nm based on the time-of-flight mass spectra of N+ fragment ions. The angular distributions of N+ and the laser power dependence of N+ yielded from different dissociation pathways show that the dissociation mechanisms mainly proceed through the couplings between the metastable states (A, B and C) and the upper excited states of N2+. A coupling model of light-dressed potential energy curves of N2+ is used to interpret the kinetic energy release of N+.
Received: 22 November 2008
Revised: 18 December 2008
Accepted manuscript online:
(Potential energy surfaces for excited electronic states)
Fund: Project supported by the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10774033, 60878018
and 10674036) and program for New Century Excellent Talents in
University of China (NCET).
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Chen De-Ying(陈德应), Zhang Sheng(张盛), and Xia Yuan-Qin(夏元钦) The dissociation pathways of N2+ in intense femtosecond laser fields 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 3073
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