Dissociative double ionization of 1-bromo-2-chloroethane irradiated by an intense femtosecond laser field

The dissociative double ionization and multi-photon ionization of 1-bromo-2-chloroethane (BCE) irradiated by the 800 nm femtosecond laser field have been investigated by dc-slice imaging technology. The charged parent ion ratio BCE²BCE was measured, and the corresponding ionization process including non-sequential double ionization and sequential double ionization was analyzed. The sliced images of different photo-dissociated ions were detected, and the corresponding kinetic energy release (KER) distributions were calculated and extracted. Furthermore, the dissociative double ionization channels, attributed to the cleavage of the C-C, C-Br, and C-Cl bonds by the Coulombic repulsive forces, were discussed, and the revised equilibrium distance R _e *, the energy ratio E_expE_coul, and the value a=R_e*(E_exp/Ec_oul) were calculated.