Quantum Electronics

Source of intense radiation with nonclassical properties

Natalia Korolkova, Anatolii S Chirkin

Published Dec 31, 1994• 1 citation

Abstract

An analysis is made of a new possibility of constructing a source of intense optical radiation with easily controlled quantum-statistical characteristics. The source is based on the interference between light waves that have passed through an anisotropic medium having a cubic nonlinearity. The role of the self-interaction and cross-interaction effects in the generation of light with nonclassical properties is identified.

DOI: 10.1070/qe1994v024n12abeh000255

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