Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Atomic coherence-state phase conjugation in optical coherent transients

Zachary Cole, K.D. Merkel, William Randall Babbitt

Published Jan 1, 2000• 0 citations

Abstract

Summary form only given. Time-domain four- and six-wave mixing has been demonstrated as an important input scheme for proposed spatial-spectral holographic processing devices. Optimizing the design of these devices requires an understanding of the optical coherent transient phenomena resulting from time-domain wave mixing. In this paper, we show that a particular set of six-wave mixing signals can be directly related to the coherence-state pathways of time-domain four-wave mixing.

DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2000.906734

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