Photodissociation/photoionization processes of chlorobromomethane induced by femtosecond laser pulses with pump-probe scheme

The photodissociation/photoionization processes of chlorobromomethane (CH2BrCl) induced by fem- tosecond laser pulses have been investigated using pump-probe scheme combined with the time-of-flight mass spectra. The dominate photoproducts are observed at different delay time of the pump (400 nm) and probe (800 nm) pulses and the corresponding time-dependence of them is obtained. The results show that the decaying time of the molecule CH2BrCl in the A-band is in the 100 fs. The decaying tendencies of the fragment ions (CH2Cl and CH2Br ) and the parent ion (CH2BrCl ) are almost the same and the relative ratios of the yields of them keep constant during the delay time of 0 to 150 fs. These facts suggest that the fragment ions come from the fragmentation of the parent ions in excited electronic states. The probabilities to form CH2Cl and CH2Br are obtained from the relative ratio of the ion intensity and are about 71.6% and 14.2%, respectively.