Coherent Control of Four-Wave Mixing
"Coherent Control of Four-Wave Mixing" discusses the frequency, temporal and spatial domain interplays of four-wave mixing (FWM) processes induced by atomic coherence in multi-level atomic systems. It covers topics in five major areas: the ultrafast FWM p
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Yanpeng Zhang Zhiqiang Nie Min Xiao
Coherent Control of Four-Wave Mixing
With 190 figures
Authors: Prof. Yanpeng Zhang
Zhiqiang Nie
Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics
Department of Electronics Science and
and Devices of the Ministry of Education
Technology
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an 710049, China
Xi’an 710049, China
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Min Xiao Department of Physics University of Arkansas Fayetteville Arkansas 72701, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected]
ISBN 978-7-04-031339-0 Higher Education Press, Beijing ISBN 978-3-642-19114-5
ISBN 978-3-642-19115-2 (eBook)
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Preface
The field of nonlinear optics has developed rapidly since the invention of the first laser exactly 50 years ago. Many interesting scientific discoveries and technical applications have been made with nonlinear optical effects in all kinds of nonlinear materials. There are already several excellent general textbooks covering various aspects of nonlinear optics, including Nonlinear Optics by Robert W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics by Yuen-Ron Shen, Quantum Electronics by Amnon Yariv, Nonlinear Fiber Optics by Govind P. Agrawal, etc. These textbooks have provided solid foundations for readers to understand various (secondand third-order) nonlinear optical processes in atomic gas and solid media. The earlier monograph by the authors, Multi-wave Mixing Processes, published last year, has presented experimental and theoretical studies of several topics related to multi-wave mixing processes (MWM) previously done in the authors’ group. The topics covered in that monograph include ultrafast polarization beats of four-wave mixing (FWM) processes; heterodyne detections 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). The monograph shows the effects of high-order
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