We report experiments where hexapole focusing is combined with stimulated emission pumping in a molecular beam, providing control over the molecule’s rovibronic quantum numbers, its laboratory frame velocity and its transverse divergence. Hexapole focusing profiles can be quantitatively reproduced by classical trajectory simulations. These experiments provide new ways of manipulating beams of vibrationally excited molecules including: (1) transverse refocusing and concomitant improved efficiency for transport of the vibrationally excited molecules, (2) relative enrichment of the concentration of the vibrationally excited molecules with respect to the unexcited portion of the beam and, (3) orientation of vibrationally excited molecules.
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