title: Enhanced alignment and orientation of polar molecules by vibrational resonant adiabatic passage.
abstract: The authors show that polar molecules can be adiabatically aligned and oriented by laser pulses more efficiently when the laser frequencies are vibrationally resonant. The aligned molecules are found in a superposition of vibrational pendular states, each associated with the alignment of the rotor in one vibrational state. The authors construct the dressed potential associated with this mechanism. Values of detunings and field amplitudes are given to optimize the degree of alignment and orientation for the CO molecule.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique, UMR CNRS 5027, Université de Bourgogne, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon, France.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Yatsenko
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guérin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amniat-Talab
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Jauslin