Stimulated Stokes downconversion in liquid and solid parahydrogen
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We report the results of our preliminary investigations into the suitability of condensed-phase parahydrogen as a Raman-shifting medium for infrared cavity ringdown laser absorption spectroscopy. We have observed the conversion of ;10-ns pulses of 532-nm radiation into first-, second-, and third-order vibrational Stokes radiation in bulk liquid and solid parahydrogen after a single 11-cm pass. Unexpectedly, we find that liquid H2 yields more efficient conversion than solid H2 with certain focal geometries, and that in the case of the solid, a collimated or loosely focused pump geometry is more efficient than a tight focus. © 2003 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1556560#
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