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Inelastic wave mixing and multi-photon destructive interference based induced transparency in coherently prepared media
Optics Communications
(2004)
Abstract
We consider a multi-level medium initially prepared with a coherent superposition of two initial levels that are not directly dipole-coupled. We study the production of multi-wave mixing in the coherent medium, where the process begins on one and terminates on the other of the two prepared levels. We find that a new type of wave mixing field can be efficiently generated in such a system with characteristics of both conventional four-wave mixing and stimulated hyper-Raman emission. We also show that two multi-photon destructive interferences build up simultaneously, leading to simultaneous reduction of the attenuation of the pump and wave-mixing fields. As a consequence a pair of ultra slow, temporally and group-velocity matched pump and wave-mixing fields can be generated. This type of multi-photon induced transparency and its consequences are qualitatively different from the conventional EIT where the destructive interference occurs between two single photon channels.
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Publication Date
December 8, 2004
DOI
10.1016/j.optcom.2004.09.005
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Lu Deng, Marvin G. Payne and W. R. Garrett. "Inelastic wave mixing and multi-photon destructive interference based induced transparency in coherently prepared media" Optics Communications Vol. 242 Iss. 4-6 (2004) p. 641 - 647 ISSN: 0030-4018 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marvin_payne/34/