Nagai Hidekazu, Ohmura Hideki, Ito Fumiyuki, Nakanaga Taisuke, Tachiya Masanori
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan.
J Chem Phys. 2006 Jan 21;124(3):034304. doi: 10.1063/1.2165200.
Coherent phase control of the photodissociation reaction of the dimethylsulfide has been achieved by means of quantum-mechanical interference between one- and three-photon transitions. Dimethylsulfide was irradiated by fundamental and frequency-tripled outputs of a visible laser (600.5-602.5 nm), simultaneously to yield CH3S+ and CH3SCH2+ fragment ions. The branching ratio of the two product channels could be modulated with variation of the phase difference between the light fields. This accounted for the difference between the molecular phases of the two product channels. The phase lag was observed to have a maximum value of 8 degrees at 601.5 nm. This is the first result of a selective bond breaking in a polyatomic molecule by the coherent phase control.
