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Optica Laser Congress (ASSL, LAC, LS&C)

Chirped-pulse Quantum Nonlinear Optics

Kevin J. Resch

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

Shaped laser pulses are essential in ultrafast optics and are emerging as a powerful tool in the quantum regime. We will describe using shaped pulses and nonlinearities to compress the bandwidth of single photons, as a time-to-frequency converter, and to manipulate energy-time entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/lsc.2016.lw2b.1

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