When chiral molecules are ionized by elliptically polarized laser pulses, a strong forward/backward asymmetry appears in the angular distribution of the photoelectrons. In this recent article published in PCCP, we use this PhotoElectron Elliptical Dichroism (PEELD) as a spectroscopic tool to investigate the influence of different Rydberg states in the resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization of fenchone by tunable femtosecond pulses.
