Rapid passage signals from a vibrationally excited target molecule: A pump and probe experiment with continuous wave quantum cascade lasers

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 4725-4727

  Walker, R J ^a   Van Helden, J H ^a   Kirkbride, J ^a   McCormack, E A ^a   Bell, M T ^a   Weidmann, D ^a,b   Ritchie, G A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE; COUNTERPROPAGATING; HOT BAND; LIGHT FIELDS; LINE SHAPE; LOW PRESSURES; OPTICAL BLOCH EQUATION; PROBE FIELD; PUMP-AND-PROBE; ROVIBRATIONAL TRANSITIONS; STRONG PUMP; TARGET MOLECULE; TWO-LEVEL MODELS; VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED;

EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULES; NITRIC OXIDE; PROBES; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 84055200469     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.004725     Document Type: Article

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