Multi-Wave Mixing Processes : From Ultrafast Polarization Beats to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

by Zhang, Yanpeng; Xiao, Min

• ISBN13: 9783540895275
• ISBN10: 3540895272
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

"Multi-Wave Mixing Processes - From Ultrafast Polarization Beats to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency" discusses the interactions of efficient multi-wave mixing (MWM) processes enhanced by atomic coherence in multilevel atomic systems. It covers topics in five major areas: attosecond and femtosecond polarization beats of four-wave mixing (FWM) processes; heterodyne detection of FWM, six-wave mixing (SWM) and eight-wave mixing (EWM) processes; Raman and Rayleigh enhanced polarization beats; coexistence and interactions of MWM processes via electromagnetically induced transparency(EIT); multi-dressing MWM processes.The book is intended for researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Nonlinear Optics.Dr. Yanpeng Zhang is a professor at the Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University. Dr. Min Xiao is a professor of Physics at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, U.S.A.

Author Biography

Dr. Yanpeng Zhang is a professor at the Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University. Dr. Min Xiao is a professor of Physics at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, U.S.A.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Nonlinear Susceptibility	p. 1
Four-wave Mixing	p. 5
Generalized Resonant MWM in Multi-level Atomic Systems	p. 7
Enhanced Nonlinearity via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency	p. 12
References	p. 15
Femtosecond Polarization Beats	p. 18
Effects of Field-correlation on Polarization Beats	p. 18
PBFS in a Doppler-broadened System	p. 23
Photon-echo	p. 26
Experiment and Result	p. 27
Correlation Effects of Chaotic and Phase-diffusion Fields	p. 30
Photon-echo	p. 38
Experiment and Result	p. 41
Higher-order Correlations of Markovian Stochastic Fields on Polarization Beats	p. 44
HOCPB in a Doppler-broadened System	p. 50
Photon-echo	p. 51
Experiment and Result	p. 57
References	p. 60
Attosecond Polarization Beats	p. 63
Polarization Beats in Markovian Stochastic Fields	p. 63
Perturbation Theory	p. 66
Second-order Stochastic Correlation of SFPB	p. 73
Fourth-order Stochastic Correlation of SFPB	p. 88
Discussion and Conclusion	p. 96
References	p. 103
Heterodyne/Homodyne Detection of MWM	p. 106
Modified Two-photon Absorption and Dispersion of Ultrafast Third-order Polarization Beats	p. 106
Liouville Pathways	p. 108
Color-locking Stochastic Correlations	p. 113
Purely Homogeneously-broadened Medium	p. 116
Extremely Doppler-Broadened Limit	p. 122
Discussion and Conclusion	p. 130
Color-locking Phase Control of Fifth-order Nonlinear Response	p. 131
Seventh-order Nonlinear Response	p. 136
References	p. 141
Raman- and Rayleigh-enhanced Polarization Beats	p. 144
Raman-enhanced Polarization Beats	p. 145
Chaotic Field	p. 149
Raman Echo	p. 154
Phase-diffusion Field	p. 156
Gaussian-amplitude Field	p. 159
Experiment and Result	p. 166
Rayleigh-enhanced Attosecond Sum-frequency Polarization Beats	p. 170
Stochastic Correlation Effects of RFWM	p. 175
Homodyne Detection of Sum-frequency RASPB	p. 188
Heterodyne Detection of the Sum-frequency RASPB	p. 197
Discussion and Conclusion	p. 202
References	p. 205
Coexistence of MWM Processes via EIT Windows	p. 207
Opening FWM and SWM Channels	p. 207
Enhancement of SWM by Atomic Coherence	p. 216
Observation of Interference between FWM and SWM	p. 223
Controlling FWM and SWM Processes	p. 227
References	p. 233
Interactions of MWM Processes	p. 235
Competition between Two FWM Channels	p. 235
Efficient Energy Transfer between FWM and SWM Processes	p. 242
Spatial and Temporal Interferences between Coexisting FWM and SWM Signals	p. 251
References	p. 258
Multi-dressed MWM Processes	p. 261
Matched Ultraslow Pulse Propagations in Highly-Efficient FWM	p. 261
Time-dependent, Adiabatic Treatment for Matched Probe and NDFWM Signal Pulses	p. 267
Steady-state Analysis	p. 273
Discussion and Outlook	p. 281
Generalized Dressed and Doubly-dressed MWM Processes	p. 283
Generalized Dressed-(2n-2)WM and Doubly-dressed-(2n-4) WM Processes	p. 284
Interplays Among Coexisting FWM, SWM, and EWM Processes	p. 287
Interacting MWM Processes in a Five-level System with Doubly-dressing Fields	p. 292
Three Doubly-Dressing Schemes	p. 294
Aulter-Townes Splitting, Suppression, and Enhancement	p. 299
Competition between Two Coexisting Dressed MWM	p. 307
Conclusion and Outlook	p. 313
References	p. 315
Index	p. 317
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