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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Improved angular response of degenerate four-wave mixing in K vapor

David S. Glassner, B. Ai, R. J. Knize, J. P. Partanen, R. W. Hellwarth

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

Atomic vapors, such as Na, K, and Cs, have such a large and fast nonlinear response on or near resonances that they are capable of processing high resolution images with cw lasers at submicrosecond time scales.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.mhh.5

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