Boyle M, Laarmann T, Shchatsinin I, Schulz C P, Hertel I V
Max Born Institute, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
J Chem Phys. 2005 May 8;122(18):181103. doi: 10.1063/1.1903949.
The fragmentation dynamics of C60 irradiated with intense femtosecond laser pulses is studied with one-color pump-probe spectroscopy. Small neutral fragments (C, C2, and C3) are formed by an 800-nm pump pulse which are then postionized by a delayed probe pulse. The respective ion signals detected by the time-of-flight mass spectrometry dramatically increase on a time scale of 10-20 ps.
