Single molecule resolved imaging and efficient STIRAP state transfer of RbCs

 Realising the potential of ultracold molecules in quantum simulation will require the development of enhanced manipulation and high-fidelity detection of the quantum state of individual molecules. This talk will cover our work towards a quantum gas microscope for RbCs molecules in a lattice. This new experiment will allow us to study microscopic correlations in the wide variety of many body systems which can be realised with dipolar molecules. I will also discuss enhancing the detection efficiency of associated molecules via highly efficient STIRAP (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09119). Using a simple and versatile optical feed-forward technique we remove high-frequency phase noise from our Raman laser system to realise a STIRAP efficiency of 98.7(1)%, limited only by available laser power.