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Resonant enhancement of over 7 orders of magnitude of the two-photon absorption cross section is observed in sodium vapor. Two cw dye-laser beams of different frequencies and propagating in opposite directions are utilized to generate high-resolution spectra which allow the enhancement as well as destructive-interference effects of nearly resonant intermediate states to be clearly demonstrated.
Bjorkholm et al. (Mon,) studied this question.