title: Laser photochemistry of molecular oxygen.
abstract: Molecular oxygen poses very difficult challenges in molecular photochemistry due to the extreme weakness of its ultraviolet absorption spectrum. In the past few years a new technique called velocity map imaging has been able to overcome many of the experimental obstacles to the study of this all-important atmospheric species. In this Account several aspects of laser photochemistry of O(2) will be described, including the unraveling of the Herzberg and Schumann-Runge continua using velocity map imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Laser Physics, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D007834:Lasers; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects; D010777:Photochemistry
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen