Document Type
Article
Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Title
Physical Review A
Volume
57
Publication Date
1-1998
Abstract
A treatment of continuum states in the application of diagrammatic perturbation theory to calculate the signal produced in two-color resonant four-wave mixing (TC-RFWM) spectroscopy is developed. The third-order susceptibility is significantly modified from that obtained when considering only discrete states. To illustrate the contribution of continuum states, the line profile of a quasibound resonance arising from the configuration interaction of bound and continuum states is derived. Analytic expressions for line profiles are presented for two specific experimental implementations of TC-RFWM used in gas-phase spectroscopic studies. While the TC-RFWM line profiles are found to be very distinct from the line profiles measured in linear spectroscopic techniques, the results demonstrate the important capability to characterize the TC-RFWM line profiles in terms of the same fundamental and physically significant parameters.
Publisher's Statement
© 1998 by the American Physical Society. The publisher's version of the article can be found at http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.57.162.
Citation
F. Di Teodoro and E.F. McCormack, Phys. Rev. A 57, 162 (1998).
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.57.162
