Slow and Fast Light (SL)

Slow Light with Fourth Order Fields

Curtis J. Broadbent, Praveen K. Vudyasetu, Ryan M. Camacho, Ran Xin, John C. Howell

Published Jan 1, 2008• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally the preservation of entanglement between delayed and non-delayed members of energy-time entangled biphotons, as well as the preservation of fourth order temporal coherence of thermal light with a delayed version of itself.

DOI: 10.1364/sl.2008.sma3

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