Coherent Raman vibrations in solid, liquid and gas phase samples, excited by impulsive
stimulated Raman scattering, are probed via optical spectral interferometry. High vibrational
spectral resolution is possible with a synthetic temporal aperture technique and we
investigate the effects of this approach numerically. Measured spectra are determined either
by direct Fourier transform or by linear prediction. This new Raman spectroscopy technique
is shown to be well-suited to strongly damped as well as polarized and depolarized …