Abstract
Resonances of the six-wave mixing susceptibility at frequency of a system of two-level atoms dissipating through the spontaneous emission and collisions and driven by a weak bichromatic external field of frequencies and in a finite Q cavity are analyzed. It is shown that the atomic collisions not only induce the usual Bloembergen resonances but that they also play a major role in enhancing the transitions among the higher-order dressed states, thereby bringing out some of the quantum resonances that are suppressed in the absence of collisions. The important contribution of collisions in this higher-order nonlinear process is the generation of the subharmonic resonances at ±1/2 times the hyperfine splitting of the first and the second excited manifolds.
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