Phys. Rev. B 45, 10087–10090 (1992)Interference effects in the degenerate-wave-mixing spectroscopy of alexandriteReceived 20 December 1991; published in the issue dated 1 May 1992 The degenerate-multiwave-mixing spectroscopy of alexandrite at 77 K using a pulsed dye laser in resonance with the R1m line was studied in this work. Unusual asymmetric line shapes that can be explained by an interference effect between resonant and nonresonant contributions of the media susceptibility were observed. The resonant effect is caused by the saturation of the two-level system susceptibility and the nonresonant contribution comes from the linear polarizability difference between excited and ground states. The present work shows an observation of this kind of interference phenomena in degenerate-wave-mixing experiments. Furthermore, we note that it is an observation of saturation line splitting in degenerate wave mixing in a narrow line in solids. © 1992 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.45.10087
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.45.10087
PACS:
78.50.Ec, 42.65.Hw
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