To Dr. Andersland who was always willing to help and patiently answer all of my questions regarding microscopy. To Dr. Snyder for always being so encouraging and nice to me.

Abstract. We investigate a four-wave mixing process in an N interaction scheme in Rb vapor placed inside a low-finesse ring cavity. We observe strong amplification and generation of a probe signal, circulating in the cavity, in the presence of two strong optical pump fields. We study the variations in probe field gain and dispersion as functions of experimental parameters with an eye on potential application of such a system for enhanced rotation measurements. A density-matrix calculation is performed to model the system, and the theoretical results are compared to those of the experiment.

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Note demonstrates ability to gain analytical mass spectrometry data from organometallics without significant sample preparation or solubility issues for ionization.