Frontiers in Optics

Generation of Paired Photons with Controllable Waveforms

Stephen E. Harris, Vlatko Balić, Danielle Braje, Pavel Kolchin, G. Y. Yin

Published Jan 1, 2005• 16 citations

Abstract

The talk will describe experiments and theory showing the generation of counterpropagating paired photons with waveforms that are controllable by using EIT to vary the optical group velocity. Typical waveform durations are about 40 ns.

DOI: 10.1364/ls.2005.lwh1

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