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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

A Simple Way to Incorporate Loss When Modelling Multimode Entangled State Generation

Colin Vendromin, Marc M. Dignam

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We prove that the light generated via spontaneous four-wave mixing in a set of M coupled, lossy cavities is an M-mode squeezed thermal state. The state generation and evolution is simply obtained by solving a set of 3M first-order differential equations, independent of the number of photons generated.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2022.jw3b.43

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