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Physical Review A

Continuous-wave light modulation at molecular frequencies

Jonathan Tyler Green, Joshua J. Weber, Deniz D. Yavuz

Published Jul 26, 2010• 25 citations
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Abstract

By using continuous-wave (CW)--stimulated Raman scattering inside a high-finesse cavity, we generate three CW spectral components covering about one octave of optical bandwidth. We investigate the mutual coherence of these three beams by studying phase-dependent second harmonic generation. From the high contrast of the observed interference fringes, we infer very good phase coherence across the spectrum and thereby infer the synthesis of a near single-cycle optical wave form.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.82.011805

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We suggest a technique where a molecular Raman transition is prepared near a maximally coherent state with continuous-wave (CW) laser beams. The key idea is to put the molecules inside a high-finesse cavity and to drive the molecular transition with two lasers whose frequency difference is slightly detuned from the Raman resonance. In this regime, the molecules become very efficient CW modulators with a modulation frequency that can be as high as 100THz100\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{THz}100THz.
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We suggest that subfemtosecond pulses can be generated by using high-order stimulated Raman scattering when a Raman transition is driven by three intense single-mode laser beams with two different modulation frequencies. An oscillatory strong Raman coherence is established by the modulated molecular modulation. Numeric simulations based on the first fundamental vibrational Raman transition of gaseous and solid deuterium indicate that subfemtosecond pulses can be generated by Raman excitations with above, below, or opposite Raman detunings.