ERC Advanced Grant · 2016
Probing chemical dynamics at surfaces with ultrafast atom pulses
Ultra-short light pulses have become invaluable in time-resolved studies in chemistry and physics. But many important processes are initiated by collisions. While lasers have revolutionized experiments using light pulses, experimentally proven concepts for producing ultra-short pulses of neutral matter are still in their infancy. Hence, our ability to control when a collision occurs is still extremely limited. Recently, we have reported bunch-compression photolysis, the first demonstrated method for producing ultra-short pulses of neutral matter. Here, photolysis of jet-cooled hydrogen iodide is carried out with femto-second laser pulses whose frequency bandwidth has been spatially ordered.…
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