title: Fragmentation dynamics of fullerenes in intense femtosecond-laser fields: loss of small neutral fragments on a picosecond time scale.
abstract: The fragmentation dynamics of C60 irradiated with intense femtosecond laser pulses is studied with one-color pump-probe spectroscopy. Small neutral fragments (C, C2, and C3) are formed by an 800-nm pump pulse which are then postionized by a delayed probe pulse. The respective ion signals detected by the time-of-flight mass spectrometry dramatically increase on a time scale of 10-20 ps.
authors.affiliation: Max Born Institute, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boyle
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laarmann
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shchatsinin
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Hertel