Abstract
The dynamics of untrapped molecules within an accelerating optical lattice produced by two counterpropagating, linearly chirped, far-off resonant optical fields, was studied. Numerical simulation revealed that each species in a gas mixture has a well-resolved peak in velocity space determined by a critical velocity. Based on the results, a mass spectroscopic technique analogous to time of flight mass spectrometry was proposed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1729-1734 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 22 Jan 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |