Multiple conical emissions from a strongly driven atomic system
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 5 (1) , 116-122
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.5.000116
Abstract
Two distinct forms of conical emission are observed when a strong near-resonant laser pulse propagates through sodium vapor. One of the cones originates in a resonantly enhanced parametric four-wave mixing process. A spatially and spectrally distinct cone is produced by the radiative decay of the coherently prepared population of the excited state at a frequency close to that of the unperturbed atomic resonance.Keywords
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