title: Control goal selection through anticorrelation analysis in the detection space.
abstract: A statistical method is reported to determine the pairs of fragment ions in a mass spectrum that are most susceptible to control by adaptive optimization of the laser pulse shapes in the strong-field regime. The proposed method is based on covariance analysis of the mass spectral fragmentation patterns generated by a set of randomly shaped pulses. The pairs of fragment ions that have higher negative covariances possess a correspondingly higher degree of controllability in an adaptive control experiment, whereas the pairs that have higher positive covariances possess correspondingly lower controllability.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Photonics Research, Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
authors.forename: Huyen T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Tran
authors.forename: Dmitri A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Romanov
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Levis