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Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 11, 1127021(2025)

Four-Wave Mixing in Cavity-Enhanced Cesium Atomic Ensembles (Invited)

Jingkun Yang¹, Xiaowei Wu¹, Rong Ma^1,2,3, Meihong Wang^1,2, and Xiaolong Su^1,2、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi , China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi , China

³College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi , China

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Jingkun Yang, Xiaowei Wu, Rong Ma, Meihong Wang, Xiaolong Su. Four-Wave Mixing in Cavity-Enhanced Cesium Atomic Ensembles (Invited)[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(11): 1127021

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Paper Information

Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Mar. 11, 2025

Accepted: Apr. 17, 2025

Published Online: May. 28, 2025

The Author Email: Xiaolong Su (suxl@sxu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/LOP250795

CSTR:32186.14.LOP250795

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