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Theory of two-photon multiwave mixing

1985; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 32; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreva.32.1596

0556-2791

Murray Sargent, Shlomo Ovadia, Mao Hong Lu,

Quantum optics and atomic interactions

Steady-state interactions of one, two, and three waves with two-photon two-level media are treated semiclassically. Dynamic Stark shifts as well as dynamic Stark splittings are included in the theory. The intermediate levels are assumed to be nonresonant, and one wave is allowed to have arbitrarily large intensity. The theory parallels the one-photon theory of multiwave mixing couched in terms of population pulsations. We find the one-, two-, and three-wave two-photon absorption coefficients and the three-wave coupling coefficients. We find similarities and significant differences between the one- and two-photon polarizations of the medium. The work treats two-photon saturation spectroscopy, laser- and optical-bistability instabilities, and phase conjugation with a unified formalism.