Raman Generation by Phased and Antiphased Molecular States

Abstract
We use molecular deuterium and two driving lasers to demonstrate collinear generation of mutually coherent equidistant sidebands, covering 50000cm1 of spectral bandwidth and ranging from 2.94μm to 195 nm in wavelength. The essential idea is the adiabatic preparation of a single, highly coherent ( |ρab|=0.33) molecular eigenstate.