Inhibiting the Onset of the Three-Photon Destructive Interference in Ultra-Slow Propagation Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing with Dual Induced Transparency

Published

December 1, 2003

Author(s)

Lu Deng, Marvin G. Payne

Abstract

We propose a dual electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) based multiwave mixing scheme that retains the significantly enhanced conversion efficiency enabled by ultraslow propagation of pump waves, yet is also capable of inhibiting and delaying the onset of the detrimental three-photon destructive interference that limits the further growth of the four-wave mixing (FWM) field. We show that the new scheme exhibits a wave-matching condition that is fundamentally different from the conventional FWM without EIT, and the efficient generation of the mixing wave is not critically dependent upon the FWM detuning to achieve constructive interference as required in the conventional FWM. These are significant steps forward in enabling applications of ultraslow wave nonlinear optics.

Citation

Physical Review Letters

Volume

91

Issue

24

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.243902

Keywords

four-wave mixing, nonlinear optics, quantum destructive inteference

Citation

Deng, L. and Payne, M. (2003), Inhibiting the Onset of the Three-Photon Destructive Interference in Ultra-Slow Propagation Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing with Dual Induced Transparency, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.243902 (Accessed October 15, 2025)