Analysis of femtosecond laser ionization/dissociation of polyatomic molecule C6H10O from one-colour pump–probe measurement

Abstract

This paper reports that a one-colour fs pump–probe measurement has been carried out for studying photoionization/photodissociation of cyclohexanone (C6H10O) in intense laser field. Two of the fragments from cyclohexanone, C2H3+ and C3H3+, are studied under 800 nm laser pump-probe and the results obtained show similar time evolutions. It proposes a feasible model for analysing the experimental observations of the one-colour fs pump-probe measurement. The results demonstrate that as an intermediate product, the excited molecular parent ions play a very important role in photionization/photodissociation processes in intense laser field.