Non-degenerate nonclassical photon pairs in a hot atomic ensemble

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21708-21713

  Chen, Qun Feng ^a   Shi, Bao Sen ^a   Feng, Min ^a   Zhang, Yong Sheng ^a   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; CAUCHY-SCHWARZ INEQUALITY; CORRELATED FUNCTIONS; NONDEGENERATE; SECOND ORDERS; STOKES PHOTONS; TIME-RESOLVED; TWO-PHOTON CORRELATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 58149117816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021708     Document Type: Article

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