Abstract
A comparison study of double-ionization induced dissociation in strong laser fields between a homonuclear diatomic molecule, O2, and a heteronuclear diatomic molecule, NO, shows that two electrons can easily be removed from one O atom of O2 to form a O2++O, however, two electrons can hardly be removed from the O atom of NO to form a N+O2+. Instead, for NO, two electrons are preferentially removed from the N atom to form a N2++O, even though the N atom requires higher ionization energy than the O atom. This indicates that atomic ionization energy does not play a significant role here. Our further study on the formation dynamics of the N2++O channel shows that the initial electron distribution of the NO molecule plays an important role in influencing the strong-field ionization and dissociation of NO and this effect seems to commonly exist in heteronuclear molecules when interacting with strong laser fields.
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