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Ultralow-Power Four-Wave Mixing with Rb in a Hollow-Core Photonic Band-Gap Fiber

Pablo Londero, Vivek Venkataraman, Amar R. Bhagwat, Aaron D. Slepkov, Alexander L. Gaeta

Published May 4, 2008• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate extremely efficient four-wave mixing with gains as high as 6 at microwatt pump powers in Rb vapor confined to a hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber.

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