%0 Figure %A Schlawin, Frank %A Mukamel, Shaul %D 2013 %T The minimum of the HOM-dip (i.e %U https://iop.figshare.com/articles/figure/_The_minimum_of_the_HOM_dip_i_e/1012637 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.1012637.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1480460 %K pulse %K entanglement time T %K nonlinear %K function %K equation %K photon %K cm %K plots show gated signals %K time gating %K intensity %K correlation %K Atomic Physics %K Molecular Physics %X

Figure 5. The minimum of the HOM-dip (i.e. Rt = 0)) for ideal time gating, equation (25), is plotted versus the pump intensity for beams with pump bandwidth σp = 50 cm−1, and entanglement time T = 10 fs (red). The grey plots show gated signals (equation (33)) with (from bottom to top) Ω = 100, ..., 800 cm−1 and \bar{T} = 0.005 cm.

Abstract

Time- and frequency-gated two-photon counting is given by a four-time correlation function of the electric field. This reduces to two times with purely time gating. We calculate this function for entangled photon pulses generated by parametric down-conversion. At low intensity, the pulses consist of well-separated photon pairs, and crossover to squeezed light as the intensity is increased. This is illustrated by the two-photon absorption signal of a three-level model, which scales linearly for a weak pump intensity where both photons come from the same pair, and gradually becomes nonlinear as the intensity is increased. We find that the strong frequency correlations of entangled photon pairs persist even for higher photon numbers. This could help facilitate the application of these pulses to nonlinear spectroscopy, where these correlations can be used to manipulate congested signals.

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