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Physical Review A

Competition between Raman- and Rayleigh-enhanced four-wave mixings in attosecond polarization beats

Chenli Gan, Yanpeng Zhang, Zhiqiang Nie, Yan Jie Zhao, Keqing Lu, Jinhai Si, Min Xiao

Published Feb 2, 2009• 6 citations
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Abstract

Based on color-locking noisy field correlation, the subtle Markovian field correlation effects in three stochastic models have been investigated in studying the Raman- and Rayleigh-enhanced four-wave mixing (FWM). Homodyne and heterodyne detections of the Raman attosecond sum-frequency polarization beats (ASPB), the Rayleigh ASPB, and the coexisting Raman and Rayleigh ASPB have also been investigated, respectively. Raman- and Rayleigh-enhanced FWM processes strongly compete with each other in ASPB. The heterodyne detected signal of ASPB potentially offers rich dynamic information about the homogeneous broadening material phase of the third-order nonlinear susceptibility.

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10.1103/physreva.79.023802

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Based on three stochastic models, the subtle, Markovian field-correlation effects have been investigated in homodyne-detected attosecond sum-frequency Raman-enhanced polarization beating (REPB) and heterodyne-detected femtosecond difference-frequency REPB. The different roles of the amplitude fluctuations and the phase fluctuations have been pointed out in both time and frequency domains. Analytic closed forms of the sixth-order and fourth-order Markovian stochastic correlations are characterized for homodyne (quadratic) and heterodyne (linear) detection, respectively. The attosecond sum-frequency REPB signal shows resonant-nonresonant cross correlation, asymmetric temporal behavior, and drastic difference for three Markovian stochastic fields, and the autocorrelation of REPB exhibits hybrid-radiation-matter-detuning-terahertz damping oscillation. The phase-diffusion model predicts a damping oscillation of the signal around a constant value in the narrowband case. The heterodyne-detected signal of REPB potentially offers rich dynamic information about the homogeneous, broadening, material phase of the third-order nonlinear susceptibility.
Based on color-locking noisy field correlation, a time-delayed method is proposed to suppress the thermal effect, and the ultrafast longitudinal relaxation time can be measured even in an absorbing medium. One interesting feature in field-correlation effects is that Rayleigh-enhanced four-wave mixing (RFWM) with color-locking noisy light exhibits spectral symmetry and temporal asymmetry with no coherence spike at $\ensuremath{\tau}=0$. Due to the interference between the Rayleigh-resonant signal and the nonresonant background, RFWM exhibits hybrid radiation-matter detuning with terahertz damping oscillations. The subtle Markovian high-order correlation effects have been investigated in the homodyne- or heterodyne-detected Rayleigh-enhanced attosecond sum-frequency polarization beats (RASPBs). Analytic closed forms of fourth-order Markovian stochastic correlations are characterized for homodyne (quadratic) and heterodyne (linear) detection, respectively. Based on the polarization interference between two four-wave mixing processes, the phase-sensitive detection of RASPBs has also been used to obtain the real and imaginary parts of the Rayleigh resonance.
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An analytic closed form for the second-order or fourth-order Markovian stochastic correlation of attosecond sum-frequency polarization beat (ASPB) can be obtained in the extremely Doppler-broadened limit. The homodyne detected ASPB signal is shown to be particularly sensitive to the statistical properties of the Markovian stochastic light fields with arbitrary bandwidth. The physical explanation for this is that the Gaussian-amplitude field undergoes stronger intensity fluctuations than a chaotic field. On the other hand, the intensity (amplitude) fluctuations of the Gaussian-amplitude field or the chaotic field are always much larger than the pure phase fluctuations of the phase-diffusion field. The field correlation has weakly influence on the ASPB signal when the laser has narrow bandwidth. In contrast, when the laser has broadband linewidth, the ASPB signal shows resonant-nonresonant cross correlation, and the sensitivities of ASPB signal to three Markovian stochastic models increase as time delay is increased. A Doppler-free precision in the measurement of the energy-level sum can be achieved with an arbitrary bandwidth. The advantage of ASPB is that the ultrafast modulation period 900as can still be improved, because the energy-level interval between ground state and excited state can be widely separated.
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