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The interaction of an atomic or molecular system with incident light is a principal means by which that system can be probed and physical processes involving the system investigated. With lasers, particularly high intensity tunable ones, the incident light can be used to modify the system as well so as to induce a specific process. Our particular interest is in collision systems in which the incident radiation might be used to control the outcome of a collision event; this is clearly related to the long standing goal of chemists to control chemical reactions by external means.
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DeVries, P.L. (1988). Fast Fourier Transform Techniques in Numerical Simulations of Intense Pulse — Molecule Interactions. In: Bandrauk, A.D. (eds) Atomic and Molecular Processes with Short Intense Laser Pulses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0967-3_13
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