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Shaping of Laser Pulse for Molecular Dissociation

Rasti, Soroush | 2014

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 46945 (04)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Physics
  6. Advisor(s): Saddighi Bonabi, Rasoul
  7. Abstract:
  8. In this project, ionization and dissociation of nitrogen, methane and formaldehyde molecules through interaction by intense femto-second lasers have been investigated. The optimum shape of laser pulses for dissociation of methane and formaldehyde molecules for controlling the dissociation paths into desired products are obtained. Based on time dependent density functional theory and quantum optimal control theory, the calculations are carried out in intensities at the range of 1014-1016 Wcm-2 with pulse durations of 4 -20fs. Octopus package is used as a powerful computational program. By using, quantum optimal control theory, optimum laser pulses with manipulation of amplitude, phase and spectrum elements for controlling chemical reactions CH4→ CH3+ H , CH4→ CH2+ 2H, COH2→ CH2+ O, N2→ 2N are achieved. Due to breaking the strong bond of C=O and maintaining the C-H weak bonds of formaldehyde, three optimim laser pulses are used. It is noticed that when the frequency ranges of laser pulses are doubled, it leads to 60% faster dissociation of N2 molecule. Due to importance of the molecular dynamics dependence on the laser orientation with respect to the symmetry axis of the molecule, different molecular orientations are investigated and optimal molecular orientations are estimated to achieve maximum ionization and dissociation of methane and formaldehyde molecules. Furthermore, the time dependent electron localization function, the time dependent nuclear dynamics, the time dependent of molecular states occupations and the electron density are presented to analyze the time evolution of molecular dynamics. By simple semi-classical Ehrenfest molecular dynamics, time variation of bond length, and orientation effects are studied
  9. Keywords:
  10. Femtosecond Laser ; Time Dependent Density Functional Theory ; Optimal Control ; Formaldehyde ; Pulse Shaping

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