Novel probes of angular momentum polarization

Thesis

New dynamical applications of quantum beat spectroscopy (QBS) to molecular dynamics are employed to probe the angular momentum polarization effects in photodissociation and molecular collisions. The magnitude and the dynamical behaviour of angular momentum alignment and orientation, two types of polarization, can be measured via QBS technique on a shot-by-shot basis. The first part of this thesis describes the experimental studies of collisional angular momentum depolarization for the electr...

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Authors: Chang, YP

• Publication date: 2010
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: light polarisation; radicals; fluorescence; angular momentum; quantum beats; molecular collisions; molecule-photon collisions; molecular dynamics; open shell molecules; photodissociation
• Subjects: Physical & theoretical chemistry; Photochemistry and reaction dynamics; Laser Spectroscopy