The key ideas can
be found in the wikipedia
article on rotational spectroscopy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_spectroscopy
The P, Q, R branches correspond
to delta(J) = -1, 0, +1. You can
find details at
http://www-teach.ch.cam.ac.uk/teach/A3/A3_Keeler.pdf
http://www-teach.ch.cam.ac.uk/teach/A3/A3_Klinowski_Raman.pdf