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

Daniel Kolbe, Martin Scheid, and Jochen Walz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 063901 – Published 7 August 2012

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 6μW 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.

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  • Received 2 April 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.063901

© 2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Daniel Kolbe*, Martin Scheid, and Jochen Walz

  • Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

  • *kolbed@uni-mainz.de
  • Present address: Carl Zeiss Laser Optics GmbH, Carl Zeiss Strasse, D-73446 Oberkochen, Germany.

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Vol. 109, Iss. 6 — 10 August 2012

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