Time-Resolved Photoelectron Imaging: The photochemical sulfur – carbon bond cleavage in thioethers & The few-femtosecond regime by the novel application of vacuum-integrated hollow capillary fibres

We present our recent publication exploiting the phenomena of resonant dispersive wave emission in hollow capillary fibres to compress laser pulses in time and up-convert their energy to the vacuum ultraviolet; achieving a first-of-its-kind pump-probe time resolution of just 10 femtoseconds in the UV.[1] We also highlight recent results on the photochemical bond cleavage of thioethers, using time resolved photoelectron imaging and high level ab-initio quantum calculations.[2]

[1] Kotsina et al. Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 9586

[2] Awaiting publication DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04789f