QUANTUM CORRELATED TWIN BEAMS

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作者
RARITY, JG
TAPSTER, PR
LEVENSON, JA
GARREAU, JC
ABRAM, I
MERTZ, J
DEBUISSCHERT, T
HEIDMANN, A
FABRE, C
GIACOBINO, E
机构
[1] CTR NATL ETUD TELECOMMUN,F-92220 BAGNEUX,FRANCE
[2] UNIV PARIS 06,SPECTROSCOPIE HERTZIENNE LAB,F-75252 PARIS 05,FRANCE
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APPLIED PHYSICS B-PHOTOPHYSICS AND LASER CHEMISTRY | 1992年 / 55卷 / 03期
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10.1007/BF00325013
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
We discuss recent progress in the study of the non-classical properties of light beams generated by non-degenerate parametric splitting in chi(2) nonlinear birefringent crystals, with special emphasis on their quantum correlation ("twin beams"). We describe experimental results using successively pure parametric fluorescence, parametric amplification of a weak signal beam pumped by a pulsed laser, and parametric oscillation in a cavity pumped by a cw laser. In this review, we compare the respective advantages and drawbacks of the different approaches.
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