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Advances in Optical Sciences Congress

Triple Photons Generation : toward a new state of light

Audrey Dot, Kamel Bencheikh, Benoı̂t Boulanger, Juan Ariel Levenson, Patricia Segonds, C. Félix

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We implemented an experiment using a Nd:YAG laser and KTP crystals that allowed the generation and study of triple photons corresponding to the creation of three correlated photons from the splitting of a single photon.
DOI
10.1364/nlo.2009.ntua4

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