Recent experiments have shown that coherent molecular oscillations may generate a comb of coherent collinear sidebands with 50,000 cm/sup -1/ of spectral bandwidth. The essence of this technique is the use of a Raman transition with a sufficiently large coherence that the generation and phase slip length are of the same order. The coherence is established by driving the molecular transition with two single-mode laser fields slightly detuned from the Raman resonance, so as to excite a single molecular superposition state. This talk will summarize the characteristics of this light source and describe two recent experiments which show the mutual coherence of the generated sidebands.


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    Title :

    Femtosecond light source for phase-controlled atomic processes


    Contributors:
    Harris, S.E. (author) / Sokolov, A.V. (author) / Walker, D.R. (author) / Yavuz, D.D. (author) / Yin, G.Y. (author)


    Publication date :

    2001-01-01


    Size :

    107749 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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