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Optical tunneling in small chiral molecules – Multicoincidence and spin polarization studies of ionization of chiral molecules in short laser pulses

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Dörner

We study electron emission from chiral molecules in the strong field, long wavelength regime of tunnel ionization using circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses. The project has two subprojects; in the first, we will measure the three dimensional momentum distributions of electrons in coincidence with fragment ions using a COLTRIMS Reaction Microscope. In the second subproject we will measure the momentum resolved spin polarization of the electrons emitted from chiral molecules.