FRUSTRATED 2-PHOTON CREATION VIA INTERFERENCE

Authors
HERZOG TJ RARITY JG WEINFURTER H ZEILINGER A
Citation
Tj. Herzog et al., FRUSTRATED 2-PHOTON CREATION VIA INTERFERENCE, Physical review letters, 72(5), 1994, pp. 629-632
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
72
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
629 - 632
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)72:5<629:F2CVI>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We demonstrate the suppression and enhancement of the spontaneous emis sion of entangled photon pairs in parametric down-conversion using sui tably placed external mirrors. The mirrors permit interference between two possible ways of creating the photon pair. In principle these mir rors can be placed at an arbitrarily large distance from the crystal. The effect is of first order in the intensity of the down-conversion r adiation.