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Resonances in the collision-induced spectrum of six-wave mixing susceptibility: generation of subharmonics

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Resonances of the six-wave mixing susceptibility χ(5)(ω1, ω1, ω1,-ω2,-ω2) at frequency 3ω1-2ω2 of a system of two-level atoms dissipating through the spontaneous emission and collisions and driven by a weak bichromatic external field of frequencies ω1 and ω2 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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