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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Periodic Revival of Frustrated Two-Photon Creation via Interference

Dong-Gil Im, Yosep Kim, Yoon-Ho Kim

Published Jun 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

It has been known that suitably placed external mirrors can enhance and suppress emission of entangled photon pairs in spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), known as frustrated two-photon creation via interference [1]. In this work, we report periodic revival of frustrated two-photon creation via interference with SPDC pumped by a continuous-wave (cw) multi-mode laser.

DOI
10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8872528

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