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A nuclear wavepacket study of unimolecular reactions in ultrashort pulsed lasers

  • “Applied Photochemistry”, Proceedings Of The 3rd Int. Conf. On Solar Energy Storage And Applied Photochemistry, Cairo, Eygpt, January 1995
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We present a review of a nuclear wavepacket study on ultrafast unimolecular reaction dynamics recently investigated in our laboratory. The mechanisms of unimolecular reactions of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) under femtosecond IR multiphoton excitation conditions are examined and laser-intensity dependence of dissociation and hydrogen migration of HCN are discussed. A theoretical framework based on optimization of laser fields locally in time is briefly described. An application of the theory to HF photodissociation is also presented. The optimized field is shown to be approximately expressed by a sequence of linear chirped pulses with different chirping rates.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 980-77, Sendai, Japan

    Y Fujimura

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Fujimura, Y. A nuclear wavepacket study of unimolecular reactions in ultrashort pulsed lasers. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem. Sci.) 107, 851–862 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02869977

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