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AUTHOR
D. Charalambidis
Intense, table-top, sub-fs radiation sources. Current status and future perspectives
Talk given by D. Charalambidis; International audience
Laser-induced field-free alignment of OCS molecule
International audience; We investigate the dynamical alignment of jet-cooled OCS molecules induced by a short laser pulse. The alignment is measured through the orientational contribution of the optical Kerr effect using a second weak laser pulse as a probe. Maximum alignment is observed at conditions close to saturation of ionization. The results are analysed with a quantum mechanical model solving for the rotational dynamics.