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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 18: Posters 2: Time Resolved Spectroscopy

MO 18.19: Poster

Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 16:15–18:15, S Foyer LLM

Pulse Length Dependence of Photoelectron Circular Dichroism — Roxana Savulea, •Simon T. Ranecky, Constantin Witte, Alexander Kastner, Tom Ring, Han-gyeol Lee, Sudheendran Vasudevan, Hendrike Braun, Daniel Reich, Arne Senftleben, and Thomas Baumert — Universität Kassel, Institut für Physik und CINSaT, D-34132 Kassel, Germany

The asymmetry of photoelectron angular distributions from randomly oriented enantiomers of chiral molecules in the ionization with circularly polarized light arises in forward/backward direction with respect to the light propagation direction. This effect is known as photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) and has been investigated by single-photon [1] as well as resonance-enhanced multi-photon ionization using a femtosecond laser [2, 3]. In that case, ionization occurs out a frozen nuclear configuration. For longer pulses, additional dynamics like internal conversion, intra-molecular vibrational energy redistribution, vibrations or rotation of the molecules come into play.
Here we present a coherent pulse length study to investigate PECD ranging from the femtosecond to the nanosecond regime. To that end, we employ a femtosecond laser with variable pulse duration and a nanosecond dye laser. When using the latter, the lifetime of the intermediate states is much shorter than the pulse duration of the laser.
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A. Kastner et al., J. Chem. Phys. 147, 013926, (2017)