Dual-channel all-optical wavelength conversion switching by four-wave mixing

Gang Wang, Yan Xue, Jin-Hui Wu, Si-Sheng Liu, Yun Jiang, Zhi-Hui Kang, Jin-Yue Gao
2009 Optics Express  
We report an experimental demonstration of dual-channel all-optical wavelength conversion switching in hot Rb vapor. In a four-level atomic system, a coupling field and a pump field interact with both 87 Rb and 85 Rb isotopes simultaneously and facilitate the generation of two nonlinear signals when the probe field is applied to the corresponding transition. Each nonlinear signal is switched on and off separately by the pump field at different frequencies based on four-wave mixing and isotope shifts.
doi:10.1364/oe.17.023332 pmid:20052260 fatcat:ei7rjoon5bcb7olwgz7qnf7yvm