Multi-Wave Mixing Processes From Ultrafast Polarization Beats to ElectromagneticaUy Induced Transparency discusses the interactions of efficient multi-wave mixing （MWM） processes enhanced by atomic coherence in multilevel atomic systems. It covers topics in five major areas： attosecond and femtosecond polarization beats of four-wave mixing （FWM） processes； heterodyne detection 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）； multi-dressing MWM processes.
The book is intended for researchers， advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Nonlinear Optics.
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本书可供非线性光学领域的研究者、高年级本科生及研究生使用。
- Front Matter
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Nonlinear Susceptibility
- 1.2 Four-wave Mixing
- 1.3 Generalized Resonant MWM in Multi-level Atomic Systems
- 1.4 Enhanced Nonlinearity via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
- References
- 2 Femtosecond Polarization Beats
- 2.1 E®ects of Field-correlation on Polarization Beats
- 2.1.1 PBFS in a Doppler-broadened System
- 2.1.2 Photon-echo
- 2.1.3 Experiment and Result
- 2.2 Correlation E®ects of Chaotic and Phase-di®usion Fields
- 2.2.1 Photon-echo
- 2.2.2 Experiment and Result
- 2.3 Higher-order Correlations of Markovian Stochastic Fields on Polarization Beats
- 2.3.1 HOCPB in a Doppler-broadened System
- 2.3.2 Photon-echo
- 2.3.3 Experiment and Result
- References
- 3 Attosecond Polarization Beats
- 3.1 Polarization Beats in Markovian Stochastic Fields
- 3.2 Perturbation Theory
- 3.3 Second-order Stochastic Correlation of SFPB
- 3.4 Fourth-order Stochastic Correlation of SFPB
- 3.5 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- 4 Heterodyne/Homodyne Detection of MWM
- 4.1 Modi¯ed Two-photon Absorption and Dispersion of Ultrafast Third-order Polarization Beats
- 4.1.1 Liouville Pathways
- 4.1.2 Color-locking Stochastic Correlations
- 4.1.3 Purely Homogeneously-broadened Medium
- 4.1.4 Extremely Doppler-broadened Limit
- 4.1.5 Discussion and Conclusion
- 4.2 Color-locking Phase Control of Fifth-order Nonlinear Response
- 4.3 Seventh-order Nonlinear Response
- References
- 5 Raman- and Rayleigh-enhanced Polarization Beats
- 5.1 Raman-enhanced Polarization Beats
- 5.1.1 Chaotic Field
- 5.1.2 Raman Echo
- 5.1.3 Phase-di®usion Field
- 5.1.4 Gaussian-amplitude Field
- 5.1.5 Experiment and Result
- 5.2 Rayleigh-enhanced Attosecond Sum-frequency Polarization Beats
- 5.2.1 Stochastic Correlation E®ects of RFWM
- 5.2.2 Homodyne Detection of Sum-frequency RASPB
- 5.2.3 Heterodyne Detection of the Sum-frequency RASPB
- 5.2.4 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- 6 Coexistence of MWM Processes via EIT Windows
- 6.1 Opening FWM and SWM Channels
- 6.2 Enhancement of SWM by Atomic Coherence
- 6.3 Observation of Interference between FWM and SWM
- 6.4 Controlling FWM and SWM Processes
- References
- 7 Interactions of MWM Processes
- 7.1 Competition between Two FWM Channels
- 7.2 E±cient Energy Transfer between FWM and SWM Processes
- 7.3 Spatial and Temporal Interferences between Coexisting FWM and SWM Signals
- References
- 8 Multi-dressed MWM Processes
- 8.1 Matched Ultraslow Pulse Propagations in Highly-E±cient FWM
- 8.1.1 Time-dependent, Adiabatic Treatment for Matched Probe and NDFWM Signal Pulses
- 8.1.2 Steady-state Analysis
- 8.1.3 Discussion and Outlook
- 8.2 Generalized Dressed and Doubly-dressed MWM Processes
- 8.2.1 Generalized Dressed-(2n{2)WM and Doubly-dressed-(2n{4)WM Processes
- 8.2.2 Interplays Among Coexisting FWM, SWM, and EWM Processes
- 8.3 Interacting MWM Processes in a Five-level System with Doubly-dressing Fields
- 8.3.1 Three Doubly-Dressing Schemes
- 8.3.2 Aulter-Townes Splitting, Suppression, and Enhancement
- 8.3.3 Competition between Two Coexisting Dressed MWM
- 8.3.4 Conclusion and Outlook
- References
- Index
