Abstract
In a two-component gas consisting of light-absorbing particles immersed in a buffer gas, velocity-selective excitation combined with a state-dependent kinetic collision frequency results in light-induced drift. Standard theory predicts that the drift velocity as a function of frequency detuning should have a dispersion-curve-like behavior. This was indeed found experimentally for the molecular species studied so far. We report a dramatic deviation from this behavior for C{sub 2}H{sub 4}, excited into its {nu}{sub 7} vibrational mode by a CO{sub 2} laser, with Kr as a buffer gas. The extent of the deviation is found to depend strongly upon the rotational sublevels involved. A possible explanation in terms of a three-level model is attempted but found to be unlikely.
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