Research Highlight

We are investigating the mechanisms of interaction between light and molecules as well as light-induced molecular dynamics through experimental and theoretical approaches. Our main research topics are (i) breaking and formation of chemical bonds induced by an intense laser field whose electric field intensity of 1011～1016 W/cm2 is as large as that of a Coulomb field within molecules, and (ii) interaction between light pulses and molecules in the attosecond (10-18s) and femtosecond (10-15s) time domains. We aim at developing a method of controlling molecules and chemical reaction using ideally designed light pulses. We are also working on the imaging of dynamical behavior of molecules through electron diffraction.
    Our research topics are as follows:
  1. Dynamics of chemical reaction of molecules in intense laser fields by coincidence momentum imaging
  2. Excitation process in molecules using an attosecond pulse train
  3. Selective breaking of chemical bonds using designed light fields
  4. Theory of molecular dynamics in intense laser fields using a time-dependent multiconfiguration interaction method
  5. Determination of the geometrical structure of molecular ions using a light-induced electron scattering method

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