Optica Acta International Journal of Optics

Two Possible Schemes for Measuring Antibunching in Non-linear Optical Processes

Pavel Chmela, R. Horák, Jan Peřina

Published Sep 1, 1981• 15 citations

Abstract

Some difficulties of recently proposed experimental arrangements for the demonstration of antibunching based on non-linear optical processes are discussed. New proposals are given on the basis of non-degenerate sum-frequency and second harmonic generation in an optical resonator.

DOI: 10.1080/713820717

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