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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 140, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4861054
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [146487/1]
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Highly efficient preparation of molecules in a specific rovibrationally excited state for gas/surface reactivity measurements is achieved in a molecular beam using tunable infrared (IR) radiation from a single mode continuous wave optical parametric oscillator (cw-OPO). We demonstrate that with appropriate focusing of the IR radiation, molecules in the molecular beam crossing the fixed frequency IR field experience a Doppler tuning that can be adjusted to achieve complete population inversion of a two-level system by rapid adiabatic passage (RAP). A room temperature pyroelectric detector is used to monitor the excited fraction in the molecular beam and the population inversion is detected and quantified using IR bleaching by a second IR-OPO. The second OPO is also used for complete population transfer to an overtone or combination vibration via double resonance excitation using two spatially separated RAP processes. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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