Title :
Photon extrabunching in twin beams in the femtosecond range measured by two-photon counting in a semiconductor
Author :
Boitier, F. ; Godard, A. ; Dubreuil, N. ; Delaye, P. ; Fabre, C. ; Rosencher, E.
Author_Institution :
ONERA - the French Aerosp. Lab., Palaiseau, France
Abstract :
Correlations of twin beams generated by parametric down-conversion are quantitatively determined by two-photon counting interferometery. Compared with incoherent light, photon extrabunching at the fs scale is unambiguously and precisely measured.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; light interferometry; optical wavelength conversion; photon counting; semiconductors; two-photon processes; femtosecond range; parametric downconversion; photon extrabunching; twin beam generation; twin beams; two-photon counting interferometery; Broadband communication; Correlation; Delay; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Photonics; Semiconductor device measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
