Chiral PPO molecules (propylene oxide) in a molecular jet are spun by the field of an optical centrifuge (long corkscrew shape) and Coulomb exploded with a probe pulse (short diamond shape) between the plates of a velocity map imaging spectrometer. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.
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Controlled Enantioselective Orientation of Chiral Molecules with an Optical CentrifugeAlexander A. Milner, Jordan A. M. Fordyce, Ian MacPhail-Bartley, Walter Wasserman, Valery Milner, Ilia Tutunnikov, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 223201 (2019)
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