Physica Scripta
The nonlinear cooperative decay process of three-level systems stimulated by a thermal field and the generation of entangled photon pairs
N. A. Enaki, Tudor Roşca
Abstract
The two-photon processes between the two- and single-photon transitions of three-level inverted radiators stimulated by a thermal field are revised. This approach opens new possibilities in the manipulation of the decay process and the generation of entangled photon pairs. The influence of the thermal bath on the correlation between the cascade three-level subsystems and the two-quantum transitions of the dipole-forbidden radiators is studied. This effect corresponds to the situation where the total energy of emitted photons by three-level dipole-active radiators in the cascade configuration enters into two-photon resonance with dipole-forbidden transitions of the second atom.