Facility for slice imaging of quantum state-resolved photodynamics
Molecular photodynamics can be studied at the quantum
state-to-state level using hexapole quantum state-selection and orientation
techniques in combination with high-resolution slice imaging of quantum
state-resolved photofragments.
A dedicated 1.5 meter long molecular beam apparatus, equiped with a short pulse homebuilt piezo valve and a hexapole state-selector is available to produce strong pulsed beams of translationally cold and quantum state-selected molecules. At present 3 nanosecond NdYAG pumped tunable laser systems and an Excimer laser are available to generate up to four independent laser beams with colors ranging from 193–700 nm.
The detector is a high-resolution slice imaging velocity map single particle detection system consisting of a high-speed (3 nanosecond) homebuilt gain-gated small pore (5 micron) Chevron Micro-Channel-Plate / fast Phosphor / large frame (2048*2048 pixels) CCD camera. The spatial position of single ion spots are detected and centroided in real time to obtain subpixel spatial resolution down to the MCP pore diamater.
Within the next year a major upgrade of the laser systems will be implemented to operate the experiments at 500 Hz repetition rate using novel high-repetition rate tunable laser systems.
This experimental facility is available for
state-of-the-art quantum resolved experiments on state-selected or oriented
molecular photodynamics with full polarization controlled slice imaging
detection of photofragments.
