ABSTRACT
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 8.5 Molecular Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 8.6 Conclusions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Adiabatic Raman photoassociation (ARPA) is a method of recombining pairs of ultracold atoms to form ultracold molecules using coherent Raman scattering [1]. ARPA is essentially an extension of three-level stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) [2-6] to a situation in which the initial state corresponds to two colliding atoms. The basic idea of using coherent Raman with the promise of making substantial population transfers from the initial manifold to the lowest-lying diatomic bound state has caught the attention of many researchers over the last decade. A substantial number of theoretical [1,7-18] and experimental [19-23] papers have been devoted to this subject.
