Stimulated rotational Raman generation controlled by strongly driven vibrational coherence in molecular deuterium Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report an experimental observation of simultaneous rotational and vibrational collinear Raman generation in low pressure cooled deuterium gas, with only two narrow-band laser pulses applied at the input of the molecular cell. Only the fundamental vibrational transition Q1 (0) is driven strongly in this experiment. However, in addition to efficient vibrational Raman generation we observe generation of a large number of rotational sidebands (more than 100) corresponding to S0 (0) transition. We notice that fine-tuning of the frequency difference of the driving fields near the vibrational Raman resonance changes dramatically the aspects of the generated spectrum and the efficiency of rotational generation: from complete suppression of a self-starting stimulated rotational Raman generation to a strong enhancement of two orders of magnitude. We conduct a numerical analysis that allows us to attribute this behavior to quantum interference among the probability amplitudes of the three molecular states involved. 2007 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

  • Burzo, A. M., Chugreev, A. V., & Sokolov, A. V.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Burzo, AM||Chugreev, AV||Sokolov, AV

publication date

  • February 2007