Large enhancement of four-wave mixing by suppression of photon absorption from electromagnetically induced transparency

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Wu, Ying ^a,b   Saldana, Joseph ^c   Zhu, Yifu ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TRANSPARENCY;

ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; THREE-PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO-PHOTON RESONANCE;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0037238357     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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