Observing molecular spinning via the rotational Doppler effect

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 711-714

  Korech, Omer ^a   Steinitz, Uri ^a   Gordon, Robert J ^b   Averbukh, Ilya Sh ^a   Prior, Yehiam ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFT; DOUBLE-PULSE LASERS; ROTATIONAL DOPPLER; ROTATIONAL DOPPLER EFFECTS; ROTATIONAL RAMAN SCATTERING; UNIDIRECTIONAL ROTATION;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84883460047     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.189     Document Type: Article

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