Selective photodissociation of tailored molecular tags as a tool for quantum optics

• Ugur Sezer,
• Philipp Geyer,
• Moritz Kriegleder,
• Maxime Debiossac,
• Armin Shayeghi,
• Markus Arndt,
• Lukas Felix and
• Marcel Mayor

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 325–333, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.35

• the possibility to cleave a well-defined molecular tag from a larger parent molecule. Here we present the design and synthesis of two model compounds as well as evidence for the photoinduced beam depletion in high vacuum in one case. Keywords: molecular quantum optics; photodepletion

• solution by UV light of 254 nm (a) and 365 nm (b). The exponential decay (red line) of the molar extinction coefficient illustrates the phototriggered dissociation of the parent structure. Molecular beam machine to study the photodepletion of the photoactive monomer in high vacuum. The pulsed infrared

• molecular beam is exposed to a collinear UV laser beam at 266 nm. Photodepletion of the photocleavable nitrobenzyl derivative. When the dissociation laser pulse with an energy of 3.7(1) mJ in a beam diameter of 3.3(1) mm preceded the VUV ionization pulse by 600 µs, we observed beam depletion of the neutral