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This work was supported in part by grants-in-aid KAKENHI from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) Japan (#26104539, #26620020, #26810011, #15H03766, #15KT0060, #16H00826, and #16K13927); the Konica Minolta Science and Technology Foundation; the "Planting Seeds for Research" program of TokyoTech; the Imaging Science Project of the Center for Novel Science Initiatives (CNSI) at the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) (#IS261006); the RIKEN-IMS joint program on "Extreme Photonics;" and the Consortium for Photon Science and Technology (CPhoST).

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The present procedure enables us to capture a real-time movie of molecular rotation with a slit-based 2D imaging setup. Because the observed ions pass through the slit, step 1.5 is one of the critical steps. The edges of the slit blades must be sharp. When there is a small defect, such as a 0.3 mm dent in the slit, a scratch is observed in the ion image (Figure 6). In such a case, the slit blade should be polished with 2,000-grit wet sandpaper.
Apart from the unique camera ang...

For a deeper understanding and better use of the dynamic nature of molecules, it is essential to clearly visualize molecular motions of interest. Time-resolved Coulomb explosion imaging is one of the powerful approaches to achieve this objective1,2,3. In this approach, the molecular dynamics of interest are initiated by a pump ultrashort laser field and are then probed by a time-delayed probe pulse. Upon probe irradiation, molecules are multiply ionized and broken into fragment ions due to the Coulomb repulsion. The spatial distribution of the ejected ions is a measure of the molecular structure and spatial orientation at the probe irradiation. A sequence of measurement scanning the pump-probe delay time leads to the creation of a molecular movie. It is noteworthy that, for the simplest case &#8211; diatomic molecules &#8211; the angular distribution of the ejected ions directly reflects the molecular axis distribution (i.e., the squared rotational wave function).
With regard to the pump process, recent progress in the coherent control of molecular motion using ultrashort laser fields has led to the creation of highly controlled rotational wave packets4,5. Furthermore, the direction of rotation can be actively controlled by using a polarization-controlled laser field6,7,8. It has therefore been expected that a detailed picture of molecular rotation, including wave natures, could be visualized when the Coulomb explosion imaging technique is combined with such a pump process9,10,11,12,13. However, we sometimes encounter experimental difficulties associated with the existing imaging methods, as mentioned below. The purpose of this paper is to present a new way of overcoming these difficulties and of creating a high-quality movie of molecular rotational wave packets. The first experimental movie of molecular rotation taken with the present method, along with its physical implications, were presented in our previous paper11. The background of development, the detailed theoretical aspect of the present imaging technique, and a comparison with other existing techniques will be given in a forthcoming paper. Here, we will mainly focus on the practical and technical aspects of the procedure, including the combination of the typical pump-probe optical setup and the new imaging apparatus. As in the previous paper, the target system is unidirectionally rotating nitrogen molecules11.
The main experimental difficulty of the existing imaging setup, schematically shown in Figure 1, has to do with the position of the detector, or the camera angle. Because the rotational axis coincides with the laser propagation axis6,7,8 in laser-field-induced molecular rotation, it is not practical to install a detector along the rotational axis. When the detector is installed so as to avoid laser irradiation, the camera angle corresponds to a side observation of rotation. In this case, it is impossible to reconstruct the original orientation of molecules from the projected (2D) ion image14. A 3D imaging detector14,15,16,17,18,19, with which the arrival time to the top detector and the ion impact positions can be measured, offered a unique way to directly observe molecular rotation using Coulomb explosion imaging10,12. However, the acceptable ion counts per laser shot are low (typically &#60; 10 ions) in the 3D detector, meaning that it is difficult to create a long movie of molecular motion with high image quality14. The dead time of the detectors (typically ns) also affects the image resolution and imaging efficiency. It is also not a simple task to make a good pump-probe beam overlap by monitoring a real-time ion image with a laser repetition rate of &#60;~1 kHz. Although several groups have observed rotational wave packets using the 3D technique, the spatial information was limited and/or direct, and a detailed visualization of wave nature, including complicated nodal structures, was not achieved10,12.
The essence of the new imaging technique is the use of the &#34;new camera angle&#34; in Figure 1. In this configuration, laser beam exposure to a detector is avoided while the 2D detector is parallel to the rotational plane, leading to the observation from the rotational axis direction. The slit allows only the ion in the rotational plane (the polarization plane of the laser pulses) to contribute to an image. A 2D detector, which offers a higher count rate (typically ~100 ions) than a 3D detector, can be used. The setup of the electronics is simpler than in the case of 3D detection, while the measurement efficiency is higher. Time-consuming mathematical reconstruction, such as Abel inversion14, is also not needed to extract angular information. These features lead to the easy optimization of the measurement system and to the production of high-quality movies. A standard 2D/3D charged-particle imaging apparatus can be easily modified to the present setup without the use of expensive equipment.

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direct imaging of laser-driven ultrafast molecular rotation

Direct Imaging of Laser-driven Ultrafast Molecular Rotation

We present a method for visualizing laser-induced, ultrafast molecular rotational wave packet dynamics. We have developed a new 2-dimensional Coulomb explosion imaging setup in which a hitherto-impractical camera angle is realized. In our imaging technique, diatomic molecules are irradiated with a circularly polarized strong laser pulse. The ejected atomic ions are accelerated perpendicularly to the laser propagation. The ions lying in the laser polarization plane are selected through the use of a mechanical slit and imaged with a high-throughput, 2-dimensional detector installed parallel to the polarization plane. Because a circularly polarized (isotropic) Coulomb exploding pulse is used, the observed angular distribution of the ejected ions directly corresponds to the squared rotational wave function at the time of the pulse irradiation. To create a real-time movie of molecular rotation, the present imaging technique is combined with a femtosecond pump-probe optical setup in which the pump pulses create unidirectionally rotating molecular ensembles. Due to the high image throughput of our detection system, the pump-probe experimental condition can be easily optimized by monitoring a real-time snapshot. As a result, the quality of the observed movie is sufficiently high for visualizing the detailed wave nature of motion. We also note that the present technique can be implemented in existing standard ion imaging setups, offering a new camera angle or viewpoint for the molecular systems without the need for extensive modification.

Figure 4A shows a probe-only raw image of the N2+ ion ejected upon probe irradiation (Coulomb explosion), taken for one probe laser shot. Each bright spot corresponds to one ion. Figure 4B shows a summed image of 10,000 binarized raw camera images. These images show that our imaging setup can monitor the molecules of all the orientation angles in the polarization plane. Figure 4C shows the normalized polar plot correspo...

We present a protocol for creating a real-time movie of a molecular rotational wave packet using a high-resolution Coulomb explosion imaging setup.

We present a method for visualizing laser-induced, ultrafast molecular rotational wave packet dynamics. We have developed a new 2-dimensional Coulomb ...

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