Competition between Raman- and Rayleigh-enhanced four-wave mixings in attosecond polarization beats
Chenli Gan, Yanpeng Zhang, Zhiqiang Nie +4 more
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.
Physical Review A•Feb 2, 2009•6 citations