Stimulated Electric Quandrupole-Dipole Raman Scattering between 4s→4p of atomic potassium has been observed.The tuning range of pump laser in which tunable stokes emission was observed is more wider than that reported by Cotter and Yuratich in 1979.
Stimulated and enhanced two-photon emissions from excited states in potassium have been observed. This emission is primed by stimulated electronic Raman radiation generated by scattering of a giant pulse ruby radiation. Four-photon parametric processes also take place. The two processes can be distinguished by tuning the laser frequency. Most of the emitted radiations are plane-polarized. A pumping model is proposed explaining the required population inversions and the polarization properties of the radiations.
An enhanced two-photon emission has been observed between the 6S and the 4S levels of potassium. The priming field is the stimulated electronic Raman emission at 2720 cm-1due to scattering of ruby laser radiation from the4P_{3/2}state in potassium. The intense emission at the complementary frequency ω2is close to the 5P → 4S resonance lines. As a result, the coupling coefficient has a resonance character that is favorable for the enhancement. The observed results are compared with a simple analysis. The relation of the enhanced emission with two-quantum absorption, stimulated Raman effect, and parametric four-photon processes is discussed.