ROLE OF RADIATION TRAPPING IN DEGENERATE 4-WAVE-MIXING EXPERIMENTS

被引:12
作者
SCHIFFER, M
ANKERHOLD, G
CRUSE, E
LANGE, W
机构
[1] Institut für Angewandte Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1994年 / 49卷 / 03期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.49.R1558
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The process of degenerate four-wave mixing is studied experimentally in dense sodium vapor in a rare-gas atmosphere. The influence of trapped fluorescence light on the ground-state orientation is shown to be responsible for the observed strong reduction of saturation phenomena with increased sodium density. The interpretation is based on a simple model and is supported by results obtained by suppressing the fluorescence.
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页码:R1558 / R1561
页数:4
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