Enhanced two-photon absorption using entangled states and small mode volumes

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  You, Hao ^a   Hendrickson, S M ^a   Franson, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC STATE; ENTANGLED PHOTONS; ENTANGLED STATE; MODE VOLUME; SINGLE PHOTONS; TAPERED FIBER; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 70350213105     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043823     Document Type: Article

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