Coherent two-photon emission from hydrogen molecules excited by counter-propagating laser pulses

Takahiro Hiraki; Hideaki Hara; Yuki Miyamoto; Kei Imamura; Takahiko Masuda; Noboru Sasao; Satoshi Uetake; Akihiro Yoshimi; Koji Yoshimura; Motohiko Yoshimura

doi:10.1088/1361-6455/aafbd0

Coherent two-photon emission from hydrogen molecules excited by counter-propagating laser pulses

Takahiro Hiraki, Hideaki Hara, Yuki Miyamoto, Kei Imamura, Takahiko Masuda, Noboru Sasao, Satoshi Uetake, Akihiro Yoshimi, Koji Yoshimura, Motohiko Yoshimura

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Abstract

We observed two-photon emission (TPE) signal from the first vibrationally excited state of parahydrogen gas coherently excited by counter-propagating laser pulses. A single narrow-linewidth laser source has roles in the excitation of the parahydrogen molecules and the induction of the TPE process. We measured dependences of the signal energy on the detuning, target gas pressure, and input pulse energies. These results are qualitatively consistent with those obtained by numerical simulations based on Maxwell-Bloch equations with one spatial dimension and one temporal dimension. This study of the TPE process in the counter-propagating injection scheme is an important step toward neutrino mass spectroscopy.

Original language	English
Article number	045401
Journal	Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume	52
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aafbd0
Publication status	Published - Jan 30 2019

Keywords

Coherence
Counter-propagating laser injection
Maxwell-Bolch equations
Parahydrogen
Two-photon emission

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics

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