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Four-wave mixing
About: Four-wave mixing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7530 publications have been published within this topic receiving 112702 citations.
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TL;DR: The equations for Four-Wave-Mixing in a Photonic Crystal waveguide are derived accurately and it is predicted that the gain for a 1.3 mm long, unoptimized GaInP waveguide will exceed 10 dB if the pump power exceeds 1 W.
Abstract: The equations for Four-Wave-Mixing in a photonic crystal waveguide are derived accurately in the hypotesis of negligible nonlinear absorption. The dispersive nature of slow-light enhancement, the impact of Bloch mode reshaping in the nonlinear overlap integrals and the tensor nature of the third order polarization are therefore taken into account. Numerical calculations reveal substantial differences from simpler models, which increase with decreasing group velocity. We predict that the gain for a 1.3 mm long, un-optimized GaInP waveguide will exceed 10 dB if the pump power exceeds 1 W.
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01 May 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported an experimental observation of resonant four-wave mixing in cold Rb atoms, which is a type of slow-light four wave mixing at low light intensities.
Abstract: Electromagnetically induced transparency in a four-level atomic system suppresses the linear susceptibility and enhances the nonlinear susceptibilities, which leads to the resonantly enhanced slow-light four-wave mixing at low light intensities. We report an experimental observation of such resonant four-wave mixing in cold Rb atoms.
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TL;DR: In this article, a physical interpretation of the four-wave mixing process is given in terms of interactions among pump (ω), probe ( \omega- \delta\omega ), or conjugated (π + ε + ϵ)-wave with optically induced refractive index modulations or gratings.
Abstract: Intracavity nearly degenerate four-wave mixing in amplifying media has been demonstrated to be a powerful technique to get very high conjugated reflectivities. A physical interpretation of this process is given in terms of interactions among pump (ω), probe ( \omega- \delta\omega ), or conjugated ( \omega + \delta\omega ) waves with optically induced refractive index modulations or gratings. Mixing experiments performed at the milliwatt level inside a (GaAl)As semiconductor laser operating above or below threshold have demonstrated very high conjugated reflectivities (a factor of 103-104) together with a 10 percent energy conversion efficiency. The appearance of additional peaks related to the ac Stark effect and observation of bistability on probe and conjugated beams also make this mixing process interesting for the study of instabilities occurring in lasers.
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TL;DR: A 1 mum cw-pumped supercontinuum that extends short of the pump wavelength to 0.65 mum is reported, showing that the short-wavelength generation is due to a combination of four-wave mixing and dispersive wave trapping by solitons.
Abstract: We report a 1 μm cw-pumped supercontinuum that extends short of the pump wavelength to 0.65 μm. This is achieved by using a 50 W Yb fiber laser in combination with a photonic crystal fiber with a carefully engineered zero-dispersion wavelength. We show that the short-wavelength generation is due to a combination of four-wave mixing and dispersive wave trapping by solitons. The evolution and limiting factors of the continuum are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, a two-level model is applied to describe theoretically the dynamical behavior of the resonances, and to extract their homogeneous broadening, as well as their inhomogeneous broadens.
Abstract: A picosecond time-resolved four-wave mixing technique is used to study the dephasing of nonlinear optical resonances in CdSe. At low temperature strong coherent, nonlinear signals at the free exciton resonance, at the biexciton resonance, and at the exciton-biexciton transition are observed. The observed correlation traces, i.e. the diffracted intensity versus the delay between the interfering light pulses, yield information on the dephasing process. Dephasing times for excitons as long as 40 ps, decreasing with increasing excitation density and temperature, are observed. A two-level model is applied to describe theoretically the dynamical behavior of the resonances, and to extract their homogeneous broadening, as well as their inhomogeneous broadening. >
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