Does pump beam intensity affect the efficiency of spontaneous parametric down conversion?

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20166-20175

  Süzer, Özgün ^a   Goodson III, Theodore G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELASTIC WAVES; PHOTONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DOWN CONVERSION; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GEOMETRIC EFFECTS; PUMP INTENSITIES; PUMPING CONDITION; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 57349129591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020166     Document Type: Article

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