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Rotation of polarization of light propagating through a gas of molecular super-rotors
Ilia Tutunnikov, Uri Steinitz, Erez Gershnabel +4
We present a detailed theoretical and experimental study of the rotation of the plane of polarization of light traveling through a gas of fast-spinning molecules. This effect is si…
Visualizing coherent molecular rotation in a gaseous medium
Ilia Tutunnikov, Emilien Prost, Uri Steinitz +5
Inducing and controlling the ultrafast molecular rotational dynamics using shaped laser fields is essential in numerous applications. Several approaches exist that allow following…
Optical imaging of coherent molecular rotors
Jérémy Bert, Emilien Prost, Ilia Tutunnikov +7
Short laser pulses are widely used for controlling molecular rotational degrees of freedom and inducing molecular alignment, orientation, unidirectional rotation and other types of…
Giant Polarization Drag in a Gas of Molecular Superrotors
Uri Steinitz, Ilya Sh. Averbukh
Experiments on light dragging in a moving medium laid the cornerstones of modern physics more than a century ago, and they still are in the focus of current research. When linearly…
Optics of a Gas of Coherently Spinning Molecules
Uri Steinitz, Yehiam Prior, Ilya Sh. Averbukh
We consider optical properties of a gas of molecules that are brought to fast unidirectional spinning by a pulsed laser field. It is shown that a circularly polarized probe light p…
Observing Molecular Spinning via the Rotational Doppler Effect
Omer Korech, Uri Steinitz, Robert J. Gordon +2
When circularly polarized light is scattered from a rotating target, a rotational Doppler shift (RDS) emerges from an exchange of angular momentum between the spinning object and t…