QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL EFFECTS IN NONLINEAR-OPTICAL PATTERNS

Authors
BRAMBILLA M CASTELLI F GATTI A LUGIATO LA OPPO GL GRYNBERG G
Citation
M. Brambilla et al., QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL EFFECTS IN NONLINEAR-OPTICAL PATTERNS, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics, 110(5-6), 1995, pp. 635-647
Citations number
69
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
11241888
Volume
110
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
635 - 647
Database
ISI
SICI code
1124-1888(1995)110:5-6<635:QACEIN>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
We discuss spontaneous pattern formation in the radiation field emitte d by a degenerate optical parametric oscillator and illustrate various quantum effects in these patterns. Above threshold, we find the prese nce of perfect photonic correlations in the spatial structure, and we describe a phenomenon that we call <<quantum image>>. We show that the se effects are related to the wave and particle aspects of the radiati on. Below threshold, we study the critical behaviour of the spatial co rrelation function of the electric field.