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

Citation
M. Schiffer et al., ROLE OF RADIATION TRAPPING IN DEGENERATE 4-WAVE-MIXING EXPERIMENTS, Physical review. A, 49(3), 1994, pp. 180001558-180001561
Citations number
17
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Note
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
1050-2947
Volume
49
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
180001558 - 180001561
Database
ISI
SICI code
1050-2947(1994)49:3<180001558:RORTID>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The process of degenerate four-wave mixing is studied experimentally i n dense sodium vapor in a rare-gas atmosphere. The influence of trappe d fluorescence light on the ground-state orientation is shown to be re sponsible for the observed strong reduction of saturation phenomena wi th increased sodium density. The interpretation is based on a simple m odel and is supported by results obtained by suppressing the fluoresce nce.