Increased cross-correlation in cascaded four-wave mixing processes

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7146-7151

  Fan, J ^a   Migdall, A ^b   Wang, L J ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; WAVELENGTH;

CROSS CORRELATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 34250171235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007146     Document Type: Article

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