Enhancement and control of H2 dissociative ionization by femtosecond VUV laser pulses.
We report ab initio calculations of H2 ionization by VUV/fs 10(12) W/cm2 laser pulses including correlation and all electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom (DOF). Inclusion of the nuclear DOF leads to a substantial increase of resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization. By varying pulse duration, it is possible to control the ratio of dissociative to nondissociative ionization as well as the final H+(2) vibrational distribution. For pulses longer than 10 fs and proportional to omega>0.46 a.u., dissociative ionization entirely dominates, which is a very unusual situation in photoionization studies.
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Departamento de Química, C-9, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
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