LASER‐STIMULATED RAMAN EFFECT AND RESONANT FOUR‐PHOTON INTERACTIONS IN GASES H2, D2, AND CH4

The output of a giant-pulsed ruby laser was focused into a cell containing the gas, and the output radiation was analyzed. In H/sub 2/ it is found that the frequency difference between lines corresponds to a particular vibration-rotation transition of the molecule. Some evidence for pure rotational transitions in D/sub 2/ was obtained. The resulting spectra in all cases appeared as if a diffusion of energy by discrete steps in frequency space had occurred. (R.E.U.)