Speaker Abstracts 7

AMO Instrument Update: Opportunities for New Science
Presenter Daniel Rolles
Presentation Type Session
Affiliations DESY
Abstract Experiments on Laser-Aligned Molecules

State-of-the-art laser alignment techniques such as adiabatic and impulsive molecular alignment [1] allow preparing gas-phase targets in a very selective and controlled manner. Combining these techniques with Free-Electron Lasers enables a number of novel experimental methods such as femtosecond photoelectron diffraction [2] and femtosecond X-ray diffraction [3] on gas-phase molecules. These methods may be used to visualize chemical reactions in small to medium-sized molecules with femtosecond temporal and atomic scale structural resolution. I will present several examples of such experiments which were performed in the CAMP chamber [4] at the LCLS AMO beamline and show potential further extensions in future experiments.

 

Footnotes [1] H. Stapelfeldt, T. Seideman 2003 Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 543-557
[2] R. Boll et al 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. (submitted)
[3] J. Küpper et al 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. (submitted); arXiv:1307.4577 [physics]
[4] L. Strüder et al. 2010 Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 614, 483-496
Funding Acknowledgement