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International Conference "Terahertz and Microwave Radiation: Generation, Detection and Applications" (TERA)

Generation and detection of highly correlated optical-terahertz biphotons

A.A. Leontyev, Kirill A. Kuznetsov, Pavel A. Prudkovskii, A.M. Rudyak, G. Kh. Kitaeva

Published Nov 17, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study the statistical properties of optical - terahertz biphotons generated by means of spontaneous parametric downconversion. Numerical dependences of the second-order quantum correlation function were obtained depending on the terahertz frequency. Statistical distributions of the detector’s readings of idler and signal photons are analyzed experimentally.

DOI
10.1117/12.2581216

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