title: Femtosecond coincidence imaging of multichannel multiphoton dynamics.
abstract: The novel technique of femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron-photoion coincidence imaging is applied to unravel dissociative ionization processes in a polyatomic molecule. Femtosecond coincidence imaging of CF3I photodynamics illustrates how competing multiphoton dissociation pathways can be distinguished, which would be impossible using photoelectron or ion imaging alone. Ion-electron energy correlations and photoelectron angular distributions reveal competing processes for the channel producing (e(-)+CF+3+I). The molecular-frame photoelectron angular distributions of the two major pathways are strikingly different.
authors.affiliation: Laser Centre and Department of Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit, de Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Anouk M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rijs
authors.forename: Maurice H M
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Janssen
authors.forename: Engelene T H
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Chrysostom
authors.forename: Carl C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Hayden