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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Bounding Entangled Two-Photon Absorption with Sensitive Transmittance Measurements

Michael D. Mazurek, Kristen M. Parzuchowski, Alexander Mikhaylov, Sae Woo Nam, Charles H. Camp, Thomas Gerrits, Ralph Jimenez, Martin J. Stevens

Published Jan 1, 2021• 1 citation
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Abstract

Two-photon absorption rates may be enhanced with energy-time entangled states of light. Using a sensitive transmittance measurement we find no evidence of this enhancement, in disagreement with previously reported results.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fm3n.2

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