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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Self-reinforced optical stability formed by unseeded four-wave mixing with two pump beams in atomic vapor

Erin M. Knutson, Jon D. Swaim, Sara K. Wyllie, Ryan T. Glasser

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate unseeded multimode four-wave mixing wherein each created photon is correlated to exactly two others, resulting in an “optimal” four-mode output. The generated beams are spatially separated, readily allowing for use in quantum communications.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2019.fth1m.1

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