Triple Resonant Four-Wave Mixing Boosts the Yield of Continuous Coherent Vacuum Ultraviolet Generation

2012/03/09 by Daniel Kolbe, Martin Scheid, Jochen Walz +1 · 2 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.109.063901

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 063901 (2012) · 11 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2012/03/09 · openalex publication_date 2012/08/07 · arxiv updated 2012/08/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Efficient continuous-wave four-wave mixing by using three different fundamental wavelengths with individual detunings to resonances of the nonlinear medium is shown. Up to 6 μW of vacuum ultraviolet light at 121 nm can be generated, which corresponds to an increase of three orders of magnitude in efficiency. This opens the field of quantum information processing by Rydberg entanglement of trapped ions.

Citations

• Trapped antihydrogen
• Continuous Lyman-alpha generation by four-wave mixing in mercury for laser cooling of antihydrogenThis paper was presented at the International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems, held at École de Physique, les Houches, France, 30 May – 4 June, 2010.

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