Wavepacket dancing: Achieving chemical selectivity by shaping light pulses

R. Kosloff*, S. A. Rice, P. Gaspard, S. Tersigni, D. J. Tannor

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Abstract

The Tannor-Rice pump-dump scheme for controlling the selectivity of product formation in a chemical reaction is improved by development of a method for optimizing the field of a particular product with respect to the shapes of the pump and dump pulses. Numerical studies of the optimization of product yield in a model system of the same type as studied by Tannor and Rice illustrate the enhancement possible with pulse shaping.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)201-220
Number of pages20
JournalChemical Physics
Volume139
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 1989

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