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Physical Review A

Four-wave mixing in a three-level bichromatic electromagnetically induced transparency system

Guo Yang, Peng Xu, J. Wang, Yifu Zhu, Mingsheng Zhan

Published Oct 11, 2010• 25 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the four-wave mixing (FWM) phenomenon in a three-level bichromatic electromagnetically induced transparency system. Theoretical results predict that the FWM will exhibit a multipeak structure under bichromatic coupling fields. The stronger the coupling fields are, the more FWM the peaks should exhibit. Results of an experiment carried out with cold $^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms in a magneto-optical trap agree with the theoretical prediction.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.82.045804

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