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Microwave Photonics Systems Based on Whispering-gallery-mode Resonators
Published on: August 5, 2013
Nonresonant control of multimode molecular wave packets at room temperature
R A Bartels1, T C Weinacht, S R Leone
1JILA, University of Colorado and National Institutes of Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA. bartels@colorado.edu
Abstract:
We demonstrate the creation and measurement of shaped multimode vibrational wave packets with overtone and combination mode excitation in CCl4. Excitation of wave packets through nonresonant impulsive stimulated Raman scattering allows for coherent control of molecular vibrations without passing through an electronic resonance. This technique is therefore very general and can be implemented in a large class of molecular gases and liquids at STP, which were previously inaccessible because their resonances are in the VUV.
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