Quantum-State-Sensitive Detection of Alkali Dimers on Helium Nanodroplets by Laser-Induced Coulomb Explosion

Henrik H. Kristensen, Lorenz Kranabetter, Constant A. Schouder +4

Rubidium dimers residing on the surface of He nanodroplets are doubly ionized by an intense fs laser pulse leading to fragmentation into a pair of $\mathrm{R}{\mathrm{b}}^{+}$ ions. We show tha…