Projektnummer

0062325

Zusammenfassung

The handedness (chirality) of molecular structures has been challenging science for decades. Chirality is defined as the distinguishability of a system and its mirror image, as illustrated by the left and right hand. Besides its importance for living organisms, handedness can also be found in fundamental chemical and physical properties and processes. An important tool for the investigation and control of chirality are circularly polarized photons since they too possess a handedness. Recently, ultrashort, ultraintense and circularly polarized light pulses generated by free-electron las...