title: Tunable, 178-nm iodine anti-Stokes Raman laser.
abstract: The first known observation of tunable, VUV-stimulated emission by anti-Stokes Raman scattering is reported. A metastable I* (5p(5)(2)P degrees (1/2) population inversion is created with respect to the I ground state by selective photodissociation of NaL. With a 206-nm pump laser to drive the Raman process, anti-Stokes Raman-laser radiation at 178 nm was generated with a pulse energy of 35 microJ and was tunable over 10 cm(-1).
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: White
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Henderson