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Frontiers in Optics

Interplay Between Four-Wave Mixing and Six-Wave Mixing in Rubidium Atoms

Blake Anderson, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

Interference between four-wave and six-wave mixing signals is observed in a four-level atomic system due to atomic coherence. The experimental and theoretical conditions for generating such interesting effects are investigated.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2007.fwt4

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