Open-loop and closed-loop control of dissociative ionization of ethanol in intense laser fields
- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technologies, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522 (Japan)
The relative yield of the C-O bond breaking with respect to the C-C bond breaking in ethanol cation C{sub 2}H{sub 5}OH{sup +} is maximized in intense laser fields (10{sup 13}-10{sup 15} W/cm{sup 2}) by open-loop and closed-loop optimization procedures. In the open-loop optimization, a train of intense laser pulses are synthesized so that the temporal separation between the first and last pulses becomes 800 fs, and the number and width of the pulses within a train are systematically varied. When the duration of 800 fs is filled with laser fields by increasing the number of pulses or by stretching all pulses in a triple pulse train, the relative yield of the C-O bond breaking becomes significantly large. In the closed-loop optimization using a self-learning algorithm, the four dispersion coefficients or the phases of 128 frequency components of an intense laser pulse are adopted as optimized parameters. From these optimization experiments it is revealed that the yield ratio of the C-O bond breaking is maximized as far as the total duration of the intense laser field reaches as long as {approx}1 ps and that the intermittent disappearance of the laser field within a pulse does not affect the relative yields of the bond breaking pathways.
- OSTI ID:
- 20783291
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 124, Issue 20; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2200706; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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