Abstract

Optically induced resonance Raman transitions in atomic and molecular beams are proposed as a means of achieving ultrahigh resolution in the microwave and far-infrared regions. Line broadening that is due to laser jitter is eliminated by correlating the frequency jitter of the two optical fields inducing the Raman transition. A Raman-separated oscillatory-field technique for reducing transit-time broadening is considered.

© 1981 Optical Society of America

Far-infrared-laser magnetic-resonance spectroscopy of ⁴He S and P states

M. Rosenbluh, Han Le, B. Lax, R. Panock, and Terry A. Miller
Opt. Lett. 6(2) 99-101 (1981)

Effects of passive isolation on several optically pumped far-infrared laser lines

D. K. Mansfield, G. J. Tesauro, L. C. Johnson, and A. Semet
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Continuously tunable CH₃F Raman far-infrared laser

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Continuous-wave far-infrared two-photon-pumped, single-photon-pumped, and Raman laser emission from ¹⁴NH₃

G. D. Willenberg
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