Abstract-Presentation-Rotating molecules by intense terahertz fields

Dr. Sharly Fleischer
Wednesday 
09/03/2016, 12:30
Solid State, Seminar Room

http://phys.technion.ac.il/en/events/details/1376-rotating-molecules-by-intense-terahertz-fields

Gas phase molecular ensembles with controlled angular distribution play a key role in many novel techniques that aim to retrieve spectroscopic information from the molecular-frame.In the last three decades, most of the efforts in this field focused on the alignment of molecules by ultrashort laser pulses. While in laser-induced alignment the inversion symmetry of the medium is preserved at all times, orientation refers to the transiently lifted inversion symmetry of the medium.   I will present recent advances in terahertz field-induced orientation of polar molecules in the gas phase and their unique responses upon field-free evolution.