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Frequency up-conversion He-Ne laser without inversion

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A scheme for obtaining up-conversion lasing without inversion in the visible range is proposed using a Doppler-broadened He-Ne mixture as active medium. We consider a cascade scheme (2s2↔2p2↔1s3) with a frequency up-conversion ratio of 1.91. The upper transition is inverted and driven by an external field and lasing without inversion occurs at 616.4 nm provided that the collisional decay rates of the 1s3 and 1s5 levels overcome a certain threshold.

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  1. Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    V. Ahufinger & R. Corbalán

  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hannover, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    V. Ahufinger

  3. Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel

    R. Shuker

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42.50.Gy; 32.80.Qk; 42.70.Hj

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Ahufinger, V., Shuker, R. & Corbalán, R. Frequency up-conversion He-Ne laser without inversion. Appl. Phys. B 80, 67–72 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1694-0

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