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Physical Review Letters

Sideband Generation Using Strongly Driven Raman Coherence in Solid Hydrogen

Jian Liang, M. Katsuragawa, Fam Le Kien, K. Hakuta

Published Sep 18, 2000• 132 citations
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Abstract

Parametric Raman sideband generation is investigated using strongly driven Raman coherence in solid hydrogen. We show that the Raman coherence prepared with two coaxial single-mode lasers beats with multimode laser radiation with very broad bandwidth and efficiently replicates the broadband nature to the Raman sidebands without the restriction of phase matching. We demonstrate that this efficient replication occurs mainly on the negative side of Raman detuning, where the medium adiabatically follows the antiphased state.

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10.1103/physrevlett.85.2474

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Summary form only given. Optical processes with strong-coupling and quantum-coherence are opening various new possibilities beyond the limit of conventional optical processes. Recently we have extended these optical processes to a condensed phase using solid hydrogen for stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) process. The essence of the work was the self-evolution of the strongly-coupled coherence using one excitation laser. In the present work we extend the above work to a more controllable scheme using two lasers. The point of the present report is the measurement of the SRS characteristics to the two-photon detuning. We show that the parametric SRS processes favorably occurs on the negative detuning side, in which the coherence can be evolved adiabatically to the anti-phased state coherence.