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The extraordinary properties of resonant four-wave mixing of backward and ordinary electromagnetic waves in doped negative-index materials are investigated. The feasibility of independent engineering of the negative refractive index and the nonlinear optical response as well as quantum control of the nonlinear propagation process in such composites is shown due to the coherent energy transfer from a control field to a signal field. Laser-induced transparency, quantum switching, frequency-tunable narrow-band filtering, amplification, and realizing a miniature mirrorless optical parametric generator of the entangled backward and ordinary waves are among the possible applications of the investigated processes.
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Popov, A.K., Myslivets, S.A. & Shalaev, V.M. Resonant nonlinear optics of backward waves in negative-index metamaterials. Appl. Phys. B 96, 315–323 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3393-3
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