Contents
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10.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
10.1.1 Surface-Aligned Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
10.1.2 Molecular Adsorption on a Single Crystalline Oxide
Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
10.1.3 Laser-Induced Molecular Desorption and Reaction
on the Magnesium Oxide Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
10.2 Surface Pump-Probe Fs-Laser Mass Spectrometry . . . . . . . . 238
10.3 Femtosecond Dynamics of Surface Aligned Reactions . . . . . . 240
10.3.1 Unimolecular Photodissociation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
10.3.2 Bimolecular Surface Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
10.4 Conclusion and Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
11 Optical Diagnostics with Ultrafast and Strong Field Raman
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Frederic Chaussard, Bruno Lavorel, Edouard Hertz, and Olivier Faucher
11.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
11.2 Optical Diagnostic by Means of Femtosecond Spectroscopy . . . 265
11.2.1 Temperature and Concentration Measurement in Gas
Mixtures Using Rotational Coherence Spectroscopy
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
11.2.2 Hydrogen Rovibrational Femtosecond CARS . . . . . . . 270
11.3 Field-Free Molecular Alignment in Dissipative Environment
and Strong Field Regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
11.3.1 Alignment in a Dissipative Medium . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
11.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283