@article{d6f556fa3a8742b5bddcd36beb126ff2,
title = "Quantum control of photodissociation by manipulation of bond softening",
abstract = "We present a method to control photodissociation by manipulating the bond-softening mechanism occurring in strong shaped laser fields, namely by varying the chirp sign and magnitude of an ultrashort laser pulse. Manipulation of bond softening is experimentally demonstrated for strong-field (1012-1013 W/cm2) photodissociation of H2+, exhibiting a substantial increase of dissociation by positively chirped pulses with respect to both negatively chirped and transform-limited pulses. The measured kinetic energy release and angular distributions are used to quantify the degree of dissociation control. The control mechanism is attributed to the interplay of dynamic alignment and chirped light induced potential curves.",
author = "Adi Natan and Uri Lev and Prabhudesai, {Vaibhav S.} and Bruner, {Barry D.} and Daniel Strasser and Dirk Schwalm and Itzik Ben-Itzhak and Oded Heber and Daniel Zajfman and Yaron Silberberg",
note = "Israeli Science Foundation; Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, US Department of Energy; Weizmann Institute of ScienceWe thank B. D. Esry, and N. Moiseyev for helpful discussions, and K. D. Carnes for comments on the manuscript. This work was partially supported by the Israeli Science Foundation. I.B. and B.D.E. are thankful for support by the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, US Department of Energy. We also acknowledge support for the WIS-JRML for this collaboration by the U.S.- Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). D. Sch. acknowledges support by the Weizmann Institute of Science through the Joseph Meyerhoff program.",
year = "2012",
month = oct,
day = "15",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.043418",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
volume = "86",
journal = "Physical Review A",
issn = "1050-2947",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "4",
}