Optics of a Gas of Coherently Spinning Molecules

Uri Steinitz, Yehiam Prior, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 013004 – Published 10 January 2014

Abstract

We consider the optical properties of a gas of molecules that are brought to fast unidirectional spinning by a pulsed laser field. It is shown that a circularly polarized probe light passing through the medium inverts its polarization handedness and experiences a frequency shift controllable by the sense and the rate of molecular rotation. Our analysis is supported by two recent experiments on the laser-induced rotational Doppler effect in molecular gases and provides a good qualitative and quantitative description of the experimental observations.

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  • Received 27 August 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.013004

© 2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Uri Steinitz, Yehiam Prior, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh*

  • Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 234 Herzl Street, Rehovot 76100, Israel

  • *ilya.averbukh@weizmann.ac.il

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Vol. 112, Iss. 1 — 10 January 2014

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