Observing collisions beyond the secular approximation limit

Ultrafast molecular relaxation can be probed with short laser pulses. Here the authors study collisional behavior of a N2O and He mixture beyond secular approximation by aligning them using laser pulses and probing their rotational echoes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Junyang Ma, Haisu Zhang, Bruno Lavorel, Franck Billard, Edouard Hertz, Jian Wu, Christian Boulet, Jean-Michel Hartmann, Olivier Faucher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13706-0