Photon statistics and polarization correlations at telecommunications wavelengths from a warm atomic ensemble

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14632-14641

  Willis, R T ^a   Becerra, F E ^a,b   Orozco, L A ^a   L Rolston, S L ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); RUBIDIUM;

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; GENERATION RATE; PHOTON PAIRS; PHOTON STATISTICS; POISSONIAN; POLARIZATION CORRELATION; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; WARM RUBIDIUM VAPORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79960503894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014632     Document Type: Article

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