EVIDENCE FOR PHASE MEMORY IN 2-PHOTON DOWN CONVERSION THROUGH ENTANGLEMENT WITH THE VACUUM

被引:89
作者
OU, ZY
WANG, LJ
ZOU, XY
MANDEL, L
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[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1990年 / 41卷 / 01期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.41.566
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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An experiment has been carried out in which two pairs of light beams produced by down conversion in two nonlinear crystals driven by a common pump were mixed by two beam splitters, and the coincidence rate for simultaneous detections of mixed signal and idler photons was measured. It is found that the down-converted light carries information about the phase of the pump field through the entanglement of the down-converted photons with the vacuum. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:566 / 568
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