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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 7, 713 (2018)

Parametric amplification of Rydberg six- and eight-wave mixing processes

Zhaoyang Zhang^1、†, Ji Guo^1、†, Bingling Gu, Ling Hao, Gaoguo Yang, Kun Wang, and Yanpeng Zhang^*

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Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Information Photonic Technique, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

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Zhaoyang Zhang, Ji Guo, Bingling Gu, Ling Hao, Gaoguo Yang, Kun Wang, Yanpeng Zhang. Parametric amplification of Rydberg six- and eight-wave mixing processes[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(7): 713 Copy Citation Text

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