Optics of a Gas of Coherently Spinning Molecules
Optics
2015-06-17 v1
Abstract
We consider 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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@article{arxiv.1308.5590,
title = {Optics of a Gas of Coherently Spinning Molecules},
author = {Uri Steinitz and Yehiam Prior and Ilya Sh. Averbukh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5590},
year = {2015}
}