Collimated blue light generated by four-wave mixing in Rb vapour Export

@article{Akulshin2009, abstract = {We investigate frequency up-conversion of low power cw resonant radiation in Rb vapour as a function of various experimental parameters. We present evidence that the process of four wave mixing is responsible for unidirectional blue light generation and that the phase matching conditions along a light-induced waveguide determine the direction and divergence of the blue light. Velocity-selective excitation to the 5D level via step-wise and two-photon processes results in a Doppler-free dependence on the frequency detuning of the applied laser fields from the respective dipole-allowed transitions. Possible schemes for ultraviolet generation are discussed.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Akulshin, Alexander M. and McLean, Russell J. and Sidorov, Andrei I. and Hannaford, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {5939433}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2292}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.2292}, day = {13}, eprint = {0910.2292}, keywords = {420nm, doppler, four, free, mixing, spectroscopy, wave}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2009-10-14 15:05:27}, priority = {2}, title = {Collimated blue light generated by four-wave mixing in Rb vapour}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2292}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - Akulshin2009 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5939433 N2 - We investigate frequency up-conversion of low power cw resonant radiation in Rb vapour as a function of various experimental parameters. We present evidence that the process of four wave mixing is responsible for unidirectional blue light generation and that the phase matching conditions along a light-induced waveguide determine the direction and divergence of the blue light. Velocity-selective excitation to the 5D level via step-wise and two-photon processes results in a Doppler-free dependence on the frequency detuning of the applied laser fields from the respective dipole-allowed transitions. Possible schemes for ultraviolet generation are discussed. TI - Collimated blue light generated by four-wave mixing in Rb vapour KW - 420nm KW - doppler KW - four KW - free KW - mixing KW - spectroscopy KW - wave AU - Akulshin, Alexander AU - McLean, Russell AU - Sidorov, Andrei AU - Hannaford, Peter PY - 2009/Oct/13/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2292 ER -