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Nonlinear Optics

Preservation of High-Order Photon Correlations Following Frequency Up-conversion

Lijun Ma, Matthew T. Rakher, Martin J. Stevens, Oliver Slattery, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Xiao Hong Tang

Published Jan 1, 2011• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate an efficient approach to measure temporal correlations for near-infrared photons using frequency up-conversion and observe that photon statistics are preserved during this process. The influence of noise photons on the measurement is studied.
DOI
10.1364/nlo.2011.nwc4

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