The photodissociation dynamics of isocyanic acid （HNCO） has been studied by the time- sliced velocity map ion imaging technique at 193 nm. The NH（a1△） products were measured via （2＋1） resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization. Images have been accumulated for the NH（a1△） rotational states in the ground and vibrational excited state （v=0 and 1）. The center-of-mass translational energy distribution derived from the NH（a1△） images implies that the CO vibrational distributions are inverted for most of the measured 1NH（v｜j） internal states. The anisotropic product angular distribution observed indicates a rapid dissociation process for the N-C bond cleavage. A bimodal rotational state distribution of CO（v） has been observed, this result implies that isocyanic acid dissociates in the S1 state in two different pathways.
