Abstract

The present summary reports about a dressed state approach to optical phase conjugation (OPC) by resonant nearly degenerate four-wave mixing in a two-level atom. The basic idea is to decouple the pump fields from the probe field by first treating the problem of the pump fields interacting with the atom and then consider the interaction with the probe field. This model shows that the dip, observed in the OPC yield when the pump fields are tuned to the atomic resonance, is due to a quantum interference effect.

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