Ultrafast dynamics of fluorene initiated by highly intense laser fields

Garg, Diksha; Chopra, Pragya; Lee, Jason L.; Tikhonov, Denis S.; Kumar, Sonu; Akcaalan, Oender; Allum, Felix; Boll, Rebecca; Butler, Alexander A.; Erk, Benjamin; Gougoula, Eva; Gruet, Sébastien P.; He, Lanhai; Heathcote, David; Jones, Ellen; Kazemi, Mehdi M.; Lahl, Jan; Lemmens, Alexander K.; Liu, Zhihao; Loru, Donatella; Maclot, Sylvain; Mason, Robert; Merrick, James; Müller, Erland; Mullins, Terry; Papadopoulou, Christina C.; Passow, Christopher; Peschel, Jasper; Plach, Marius; Ramm, Daniel; Robertson, Patrick; Rompotis, Dimitrios; Simao, Alcides; Steber, Amanda L.; Tajalli, Ayhan; Tul-Noor, Atia; Vadassery, Nidin; Vinklárek, Ivo S.; Techert, Simone; Küpper, Jochen; Rijs, Anouk M.; Rolles, Daniel; Brouard, Mark; Bari, Sadia; Eng-Johnsson, Per; Vallance, Claire; Burt, Michael; Manschwetus, Bastian; Schnell, Melanie

doi:10.1039/d3cp05063g

Title: Ultrafast dynamics of fluorene initiated by highly intense laser fields

Journal Article · Thu Jun 20 00:00:00 UTC 2024 · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cp05063g · OSTI ID:2446552

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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. of Hamburg (Germany); SLAC
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. of Hamburg (Germany)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
European XFEL, Schenefeld (Germany)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
Lund Univ. (Sweden)
Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands); Radboud Univ., Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Villeurbanne (France)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science; European XFEL, Schenefeld (Germany)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); European XFEL, Schenefeld (Germany)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Ruhr Univ., Bochum (Germany)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science; Univ. of Hamburg (Germany)
Vrije Univ., Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Class 5 Photonics, Hamburg (Germany)

Here, we present an investigation of the ultrafast dynamics of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon fluorene initiated by an intense femtosecond near-infrared laser pulse (810 nm) and probed by a weak visible pulse (405 nm). Using a multichannel detection scheme (mass spectra, electron and ion velocity-map imaging), we provide a full disentanglement of the complex dynamics of the vibronically excited parent molecule, its excited ionic states, and fragments. We observed various channels resulting from the strong-field ionization regime. In particular, we observed the formation of the unstable tetracation of fluorene, above-threshold ionization features in the photoelectron spectra, and evidence of ubiquitous secondary fragmentation. We produced a global fit of all observed time-dependent photoelectron and photoion channels. This global fit includes four parent ions extracted from the mass spectra, 15 kinetic-energy-resolved ionic fragments extracted from ion velocity map imaging, and five photoelectron channels obtained from electron velocity map imaging. The fit allowed for the extraction of 60 lifetimes of various metastable photoinduced intermediates.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 2446552

Journal Information:: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP, Journal Name: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP Journal Issue: 30 Vol. 26; ISSN 1463-9076

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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