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Orientation of molecules via laser-induced anti-alignment

Quantum Physics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We show that field-free molecular orientation induced by a half-cycle pulse may be considerably enhanced by an additional laser pulse inducing molecular anti-alignment. Two qualitatively different enhancement mechanisms are identified depending on the pulse order, and their effects are optimized with the help of quasi-classical as well as fully quantum models.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0509102,
  title  = {Orientation of molecules via laser-induced anti-alignment},
  author = {E. Gershnabel and I. Sh. Averbukh and R. J. Gordon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0509102},
  year   = {2009}
}