Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Spatial and Temporal Interferences between Four-Wave Mixing and Six-Wave Mixing Channels

Utsab Khadka, Yanpeng Zhang, Blake Anderson, Min Xiao

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

Spatial and temporal interferences between four-wave mixing and six-wave mixing signals are observed by using phase-control between these nonlinear optical processes in a four-level atomic system. Atomic coherence is the key to observe such phenomenon.

DOI: 10.1364/iqec.2009.iwb5

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