Theory of Two-Photon Interactions with Broadband Down-Converted Light and Entangled Photons

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2007-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/0704.2859v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

23 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.76.043813

When two-photon interactions are induced by down-converted light with a bandwidth that exceeds the pump bandwidth, they can obtain a behavior that is pulse-like temporally, yet spectrally narrow. At low photon fluxes this behavior reflects the time and energy entanglement between the down-converted photons. However, two-photon interactions such as two-photon absorption (TPA) and sum-frequency generation (SFG) can exhibit such a behavior even at high power levels, as long as the final state (i.e. the atomic level in TPA, or the generated light in SFG) is narrowband enough. This behavior does not depend on the squeezing properties of the light, is insensitive to linear losses, and has potential applications. In this paper we describe analytically this behavior for travelling-wave down-conversion with continuous or pulsed pumping, both for high- and low-power regimes. For this we derive a quantum-mechanical expression for the down-converted amplitude generated by an arbitrary pump, and formulate operators that represent various two-photon interactions induced by broadband light. This model is in excellent agreement with experimental results of TPA and SFG with high power down-converted light and with entangled photons [Dayan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 023005 (2004), Dayan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 043602, (2005), Pe'er et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 073601 (2005)].

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