Four-wave mixing in the diamond configuration in an atomic vapor
- 12 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 79 (3), 033814
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.79.033814
Abstract
We present measurements of the resonance structure for nondegenerate four-wave mixing (4WM) in the diamond configuration in a warm atomic vapor of rubidium. We show that a narrow sub-Doppler feature exists and can be understood as a result of velocity-class selection. We measure the efficiency of the 4WM process and show it to be on the order of . Our observations are consistent with the results of a theoretical treatment based on the semiclassical Maxwell-Bloch equations for the system with the appropriate coupling values derived from the experimental values in Rb.
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