Triple photons: a challenge in nonlinear and quantum optics

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作者
Bencheikh, Kamel
Gravier, Fabien
Douady, Julien
Levenson, Ariel
Boulanger, Benoit
机构
[1] CNRS, Lab Photon & Nanostruct, F-91460 Marcoussis, France
[2] Univ Grenoble 1, Inst Neel, CNRS, F-38042 Grenoble 9, France
[3] Univ Grenoble 1, Spectrometrie Phys Lab, CNRS, F-38402 St Martin Dheres, France
关键词
cubic nonlinear optics; quantum optics; nonlinear crystals; nonclassical states of light; GHZ; parametric frequency conversion; quantum correlations; parametric fluorescence;
D O I
10.1016/j.crhy.2006.07.014
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
This article is devoted to the generation and the quantum correlations of triple photons, which correspond to the creation of three highly correlated photons from the splitting of a single photon by a phase-matched third-order parametric nonlinear process. These triples constitute a Greenberger-Home-Zeilinger state of light and are interesting from a fundamental point of view but also for new schemes of quantum cryptography. We give here the classical and quantum descriptions of triple photon generation, we report on the first experimental demonstration of such a generation, and we calculate the Wigner function of three-photon quantum states of light.
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页码:206 / 220
页数:15
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