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Dynamics of multiphoton scattering in a two-level mixer

Andrei Vladimirovich Vasenin, A. Yu. Dmitriev, Shamil Kadyrmetov, Aleksey N. Bolgar, O. V. Astafiev

Published Oct 21, 2022• 2 citations

Abstract

Mixing of coherent pulses with different carrier frequencies by a two-level atom results in a finite number of sidebands in the emitted spectrum. The authors studied the dynamics of mixing side components in response to characteristics of the coherent pulses such as their number, amplitudes, durations, and overlapping.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.106.l041701

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