▪ Abstract There has been much progress in the control of chemical reactions since methods
of active control were first proposed by Brumer & Shapiro and by Tannor & Rice ten years …

This review article focuses on imaging and controlling ultrafast dynamics of the hydrogen
molecule and its cation, initiated by ultrashort laser pulses. We discuss the mechanisms …

Written by two of the world's leading researchers in the field, this is a systematic introduction
to the fundamental principles of coherent control, and to the underlying physics and …

We review the principles and some recent advances in the theory of coherent control of
molecular processes and discuss some of its experimental realizations. Amongst the topics …

We report on the use of the relative phase between a two-color optical field (1053 and 527
nm) to coherently control the photodissociation of the HD+ molecule. The field-induced …

We present the first measurement of the ionization rate from above-threshold ionization (ATI)
in an optical field whose phase dependence is known and controllable. Our method uses a …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the coherent control method. It describes the
basic principles behind the preparation and subsequent dynamics of a state excited by laser …

Temporal coherent control of an excited state wave packet is produced by a sequence of two
identical ultrashort laser pulses. We show theoretically and experimentally in the case of the …

An intense phase-controlled orthogonally polarized two-color ultrashort laser pulse is used
to singly ionize and dissociate H 2 into a neutral hydrogen atom and a proton. Emission …

Phase control of the spatial asymmetry of the dissociative ionization channel,, of molecular
hydrogen has been achieved by superposing interferometrically sub-100 fs, Ti: sapphire …