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Advances in Optical Sciences Congress

Resonant Sum Frequency Generation with Biphotons

Steven Sensarn, Irfan Ali-Khan, G. Y. Yin, Stephen E. Harris

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We improve the efficiency of sum frequency generation using entangled photons. By resonating the sum frequency field, we observe generated power which varies linearly with input power and is increased by a factor of 12.
DOI
10.1364/nlo.2009.nwe4

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