Abstract We investigate the interplay between six-wave mixing (SWM) and four-wave mixing (FWM) resulting from atomic coherence and polarization beat in a four-level atomic system. The dressed FWM evolution and competition pathways can be controlled by the coupling field to exhibit two FWM and SWM turning points, FWM+SWM, and FWM+FWM interference regions. Quantum interference between two FWM or ...

We elaborate a comprehensive theory of the sharp variations four-wave-mixing (FWM) threshold happening with tuning pump frequency along dispersive tails nonlinear resonance in driven Kerr microresonators high finesses and finesse dispersions. Our leads to explicit estimates for difference powers required excitation one sideband pair momenta $\pm\mu$, simultaneous two neighbouring pairs $\pm(\mu...