Abstract

This paper reports what we believe to be the first observation of a stimulated nonresonant anti-Stokes Raman laser. Thallium vapor which was inverted by selective photodissociation of TICI was used as the Raman medium. Using the second (532-nm) and third (355-nm) harmonics of a Nd:YAG laser as pump sources, stimulated anti-Stokes emission from the $\text{TI}\left(6p^2{P}_{3/2}^0\right)$ to the $\text{TI}\left(6p^2{P}_{1/2}^0\right)$ state was observed at 376 and 278 nm, respectively.

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