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Coherent Control of the Photodissociation of Triiodide in Solution Reveals New Pathways

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Ultrafast Phenomena XIX

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We perform closed- and open-loop coherent control experiments of the photodissociation of triiodide (I3 −) in ethanol using shaped UV pulses. In the regime where the relative diiodide (I2 −) yield is excitation-independent, we observe a symmetrical second-order chirp dependence of the I2 − yield, and that the I2 − production can be controlled within 40 % by varying the second-order chirp of the pump pulse. We show that additional pathways involving higher-lying potential energy surfaces are viable means to explain such observations.

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This work was supported by the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) and the Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI).

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  1. Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Centre for Free Electron Laser Science, Bld. 99, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany

    Rui Xian, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Ryan L. Field & R. J. Dwayne Miller

  2. Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6, Canada

    Ryan L. Field & R. J. Dwayne Miller

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  1. Rui Xian
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Correspondence to R. J. Dwayne Miller .

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kaoru Yamanouchi

  2. JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Steven Cundiff

  3. Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany

    Regina de Vivie-Riedle

  4. Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

  5. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Louis DiMauro

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Xian, R., Prokhorenko, V.I., Field, R.L., Dwayne Miller, R.J. (2015). Coherent Control of the Photodissociation of Triiodide in Solution Reveals New Pathways. In: Yamanouchi, K., Cundiff, S., de Vivie-Riedle, R., Kuwata-Gonokami, M., DiMauro, L. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XIX. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_93

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