For the harmonic-oscillator recoil matrix element, using and differentiating the Gaussian transform with respect to ,Consequently . Reversing the travelling-wave phase changes the sign of the imaginary amplitude. For small , the sideband is weaker by in amplitude and in probability.
With the printed unnormalized Gaussians, the literal integral would be . It is distinguished from the physical normalized-oscillator result rather than silently treating inconsistent wavefunctions as normalized.