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arXiv:1512.03510 · AIP Advances

Two-color ghost interference with photon pairs generated in hot atoms

Dong-Sheng Ding, Zhi‐Yuan Zhou, Bao‐Sen Shi, Xu‐Bo Zou, Guang‐Can Guo

Published Sep 1, 2012• 9 citations
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Abstract

We report on an experimental observation of a two-photon ghost interference experiment. A distinguishing feature of our experiment is that the photons are generated via a non-degenerated spontaneous four-wave mixing process in a hot atomic ensemble; therefore the photon has narrow bandwidth. Besides, there is a large difference in frequency between two photons in a pair. Our works may be important to achieve more secure, large transmission capacity long-distance quantum communication.

DOI
10.1063/1.4754857

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