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Manipulation of Squeezed Two-Phonon Bound States using Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Jianbo Hu, O. V. Misochko, Kazutaka G. Nakamura

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

Two-phonon bound states have been excited exclusively in ZnTe(110) via impulsive stimulated second-order Raman scattering, essentially being squeezed states due to phase coherent excitation of two identical components anticorrelated in the wave vector. By using coherent control technique with a pair of femtosecond laser pulses, the manipulation of squeezed states has been demonstrated in which both the amplitude and lifetime of coherent oscillations of squeezed states are modulated, indicating the feasibility to control the quantum noise and the quantum nature of phonon squeezed states, respectively.

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10.1051/epjconf/20134104019

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