First-order interference of nonclassical light emitted spontaneously at different times

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 518031-518034

  Kim, Yoon Ho ^a   Chekhova, Maria V ^a,b   Kulik, Sergei P ^a,b   Shih, Yanhua ^a   Rubin, Morton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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19. In this case, even if a narrow-band filter is used, the interference pattern is stable only for the time 2π/Δω, where Δω is the frequency bandwidth of the filter.
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22. The second-order interference from a pump consisting of several short pulses was described in T.E. Keller, M.H. Rubin, and Y.H. Shih, Phys. Lett. A; 244, 507 (1998); and observed in Y.-H. Kim et al., Phys. Rev. A 60, R37 (1999).
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26. For cw pumped SPDC theory, see M.H. Rubin et al., Phys. Rev. A 50, 5122 (1994); for pulse pumped SPDC theory, see T.E. Keller and M.H. Rubin, ibid. 56, 1534 (1997); W.P. Grice and I.A. Walmsley, ibid. 56, 1627 (1997); J. Peřina et al., ibid. 59, 2359 (1999). These papers, however, consider the second- order interference.
27. For cw pumped SPDC theory, see M.H. Rubin et al., Phys. Rev. A 50, 5122 (1994); for pulse pumped SPDC theory, see T.E. Keller and M.H. Rubin, ibid. 56, 1534 (1997); W.P. Grice and I.A. Walmsley, ibid. 56, 1627 (1997); J. Peřina et al., ibid. 59, 2359 (1999). These papers, however, consider the second- order interference.
28. For cw pumped SPDC theory, see M.H. Rubin et al., Phys. Rev. A 50, 5122 (1994); for pulse pumped SPDC theory, see T.E. Keller and M.H. Rubin, ibid. 56, 1534 (1997); W.P. Grice and I.A. Walmsley, ibid. 56, 1627 (1997); J. Peřina et al., ibid. 59, 2359 (1999). These papers, however, consider the second-order interference.
29. The output photon numbers in both signal and idler modes are so small that all induced effects can be neglected.