We study phase-conjugate six-wave mixing spectroscopy based on electromagnetically-induced-transparency in a Doppler-broadened folded four-level system. It is found that the six-wave mixing spectrum can be either Doppler-free or very broad, depending on whether the interference between the polarisations of atoms with different velocities is constructive or destructive. To obtain the Doppler-free six-wave mixing spectrum in the folded four-level system, the conditions are more stringent in comparison with those in the cascade and N-type four-level systems. This polarisation interference can be controlled in the presence of a strong coupling field.
We study the electromagnetically-induced transparency（EIT） in a Doppler-broadened cascaded three-level system.We decompose the susceptibility responsible for the EIT resonance into a linear and a nonlinear part, and the EIT resonance reflects mainly the characteristics of the nonlinear susceptibility. It is found that the macroscopic polarization interference effect plays a crucial role in determining the EIT resonance spectrum. To obtain a Doppler-free spectrum there must be polarization interference between atoms of different velocities. A dressed-state model, which analyzes the velocities at which the atoms are in resonance with the dressed states through Doppler frequency shifting, is employed to explain the results.
