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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Use of classical input for solving two-photon nonlinear dynamics

Kazuki Koshino

Published Jun 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

Optical nonlinear effects between several photons are usually negligibly small. Such nonlinear optical effects have been attracting much attention from the viewpoint of all-optical quantum computation. In order to analyze the nonlinear dynamics of photons quantitatively, it is essential to quantize both the photon field and the material system, and also to take account of the multimode nature of the photon field rigorously.

DOI
10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2007.4386896

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