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Efficient infrared upconversion via a ladder-type atomic configuration

Optics 2015-06-04 v5

Abstract

We have demonstrated experimentally that infrared light at 1529.4nm can be converted into the visible at 780nm with 54% efficiency through a ladder-type atomic configuration in 85Rb. Specifically we theoretically analyze that high efficiency is due to the large nonlinear dispersion of the index of refraction from the off-resonant enhancement in a four-wave mixing (FWM) process. By using two perpendicular polarized pump fields, the coherence of two FWM processes in this configuration is verified.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1974,
  title  = {Efficient infrared upconversion via a ladder-type atomic configuration},
  author = {Dong-Sheng Ding and Zhi-Yuan Zhou and Bao-Sen Shi and Xu-Bo Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1974},
  year   = {2015}
}

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The new version is published in Journal of Modern Optics

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