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Chin. Phys. B, 2023, Vol. 32(11): 114214    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ad0622
Special Issue: SPECIAL TOPIC — Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Physics Discipline of Northwest University
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Absorption spectra and enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in a four-level system

Hao-Jie Huangfu(皇甫浩杰)1, Ying-Jie Du(杜英杰)1,2,†, and Ai-Hua Gao(高爱华)1
1 School of Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China;
2 Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
Abstract  In a coherent system, enhanced nonlinearity can be reached via far-detuned coupling fields in the presence of Autler-Townes splitting. We explore the absorption spectra and the Kerr nonlinearity of the coherent system via the interaction between a four-level atomic system and triple fields. We obtain the absorption spectra with double, triple and even quadruple peaks which depend on both the magnitude and the difference of the coupling fields. The Kerr nonlinearity always remains reversely correlated with the absorption spectra. We find that the large coupling detunings can lead to a significant growth of the Kerr nonlinearity and the degenerate four-wave mixing. Both the Kerr nonlinearity and the four-wave mixing can be managed by adjusting the detunings of the coupling fields.
Keywords:  double electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)      Autler-Townes splitting      Kerr nonlinearity      four-wave mixing  
Received:  19 June 2023      Revised:  23 October 2023      Accepted manuscript online:  24 October 2023
PACS:  42.50.Gy (Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and Amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and Absorption)  
  32.80.Qk (Coherent control of atomic interactions with photons)  
  42.65.-k (Nonlinear optics)  
Fund: Project supported by the Open Subject of the State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices (Grant No. KF202209).
Corresponding Authors:  Ying-Jie Du     E-mail:  yingjied@nwu.edu.cn

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Hao-Jie Huangfu(皇甫浩杰), Ying-Jie Du(杜英杰), and Ai-Hua Gao(高爱华) Absorption spectra and enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in a four-level system 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 114214

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