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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Sub-Poissonian Twin-Beam Correlations at Blue and Red Wavelengths from Four-Wave Mixing

Jason D. Mueller, Alex R. McMillan, Paul‐Antoine Moreau, Javier Sabines-Chesterking, John Rarity, Peter J. Mosley, Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate sub-Poissonian intensity correlations of twin beams at short wavelengths: 442nm and 665nm. The beams are generated via four-wave mixing in photonic crystal fiber, measured with a CCD camera.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2018.jth2a.5

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