Strong field control of predissociation dynamics

Faraday Discuss. 2013:163:447-60; discussion 513-43. doi: 10.1039/c2fd20143g.

Abstract

Strong field control scenarios are investigated in the CH3I predissociation dynamics at the origin of the second absorption B-band, in which state-selective electronic predissociation occurs through the crossing with a valence dissociative state. Dynamic Stark control (DSC) and pump-dump strategies are shown capable of altering both the predissociation lifetime and the product branching ratio.