Rayleigh-Type Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing: Ultrafast Measurement and Field Correlation

Abstract

We report on an ultrafast longitudinal time measurement by a nonresonant Rayleigh-type nondegenerate four-wave mixing (NFWM). We investigated the field-correlation effects on Rayleigh-type NFWM by examining the time-delayed dependence of the NFWM spectra. Based on the field-correlation effects, a time-delayed method is proposed to suppress the thermal effect, and ultrafast relaxation time can be measured even in an absorbing medium.