Spatial quantum correlations in the fluorescence of traveling-wave second-harmonic generation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Scotto, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; STATISTICS; VECTORS;

OPPOSITE TRANSVERSE WAVE VECTORS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS; SECOND HARMONIC FREQUENCY; SPATIAL QUANTUM CORRELATIONS; TRAVELLING WAVE CONFIGURATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0242442144     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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