Abstract
A technique was provided to nonintrusively quantify the field-free alignment of molecules by measuring the transient birefringence caused by the aligned molecules. Pure heterodyne alignment signals were obtained from the difference of the signals under an external electric field with opposite polarity and equal magnitude. The results demonstrated that the pure heterodyne alignment signal directly reproduced the revival structure of molecular alignment and its Fourier transform spectroscopy represented the actual populations of the different J states in the rotational wave packet.
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