Spatial interference between four- and six-wave mixing signals
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Measurement of Coherence Decay in GaMnAs Using Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing
Published on: December 3, 2013
Blake Anderson1, Yanpeng Zhang, Utsab Khadka
1Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
Abstract:
We experimentally demonstrate spatial interference between simultaneously generated four-wave mixing (FWM) and six-wave mixing (SWM) signals in a multilevel atomic system. By tuning the relative phase between the FWM and SWM processes the relative strengths between these two high-order nonlinear optical processes can be investigated.
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