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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Scheme for investigation of two-photon emission in sodium

Jinling Gao, William W. Eidson, M. Squicciarini, Lorenzo M. Narducci

Published Aug 1, 1984• 14 citations
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Abstract

We discuss the results of preliminary measurements of nondegenerate two-photon emission between two excited states of the same parity of sodium. In the presence of a strong deexcitation pulse in near resonance with one of the intermediate states, small but repeatable signals have been observed at the complementary wavelength.
DOI
10.1364/josab.1.000606

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