Sideband generation using strongly coupled Raman coherence in solid hydrogen

Summary form only given. There has been increasing interest in optical processes using strong-coupling and induced transparency, termed electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Although the idea of EIT started for resonant /spl and/h-scheme (Raman scheme), the idea has now been extended to far-off resonance Raman system. We have reported the spontaneous evolution of strong-coupling through stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) using solid hydrogen. In the present work, we extend the strong-coupling SRS to a more general parametric Raman sideband generation. We show using solid hydrogen as a test medium that, in tile far-off resonance Raman scheme, the strongly-coupled Raman coherence can beat with very broad-band laser radiation and can efficiently copy the broadband nature to Raman sidebands without restriction of the phase-matching, and that this efficient copying occurs on the negative Raman detuning for which the strongly-coupled eigenstate evolves to the anti-phased state (dark state).