Laser induced alignment and orientation of conformer and quantum state selected gas-phase molecules and their applications

Molecules in the gas-phase can be treated as isolated systems without influence from the environment. Gaining further control over the molecules, such as quantum state or conformer selection, or/and fixing the molecular axis in space, can be highly advantageous or simply necessary for a variety of experiments aiming at, for instance, probing of the molecular structure, or molecular frame dependent properties such as molecular-frame photo angular distributions.