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J. Phys. Chem. A 1998, 102, 3002-3005
Behavior of Polyatomic Molecules in Intense Infrared Laser Beams K. W. D. Ledingham,*,† R. P. Singhal,† D. J. Smith,† T. McCanny,† P. Graham,† H. S. Kilic,†,‡ W. X. Peng,†,§ S. L. Wang,†,| A. J. Langley,⊥ P. F. Taday,⊥ and C. Kosmidis# Department of Physics & Astronomy, UniVersity of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K., Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, England, U.K., and Department of Physics, UniVersity of Ioannina, Greece ReceiVed: March 24, 1998
In the present Letter we report that a number of polyatomic molecules (M) when irradiated with short pulse lasers