Parametric amplification of Rydberg six- and eight-wave mixing processes

Zhaoyang Zhang; Ji Guo; Bingling Gu; Ling Hao; Gaoguo Yang; Kun Wang; Yanpeng Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000713

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 7, 713(2018)

Parametric amplification of Rydberg six- and eight-wave mixing processes

Zhaoyang Zhang^1、†, Ji Guo^1、†, Bingling Gu, Ling Hao, Gaoguo Yang, Kun Wang, and Yanpeng Zhang^*

Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Information Photonic Technique, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Feb. 26, 2018

Accepted: Apr. 26, 2018

Published Online: Jul. 4, 2018

The Author Email: Yanpeng Zhang (ypzhang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000713

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