DEPOLARIZATION OF ATOMIC 2-PHOTON RADIATION

Authors
SHEIKH ZA DUNCAN AJ BEYER HJ KLEINPOPPEN H
Citation
Za. Sheikh et al., DEPOLARIZATION OF ATOMIC 2-PHOTON RADIATION, Zeitschrift fur Physik. D, Atoms, molecules and clusters, 30(2-3), 1994, pp. 231-234
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Physik. D, Atoms, molecules and clusters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01787683
Volume
30
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
231 - 234
Database
ISI
SICI code
0178-7683(1994)30:2-3<231:DOA2R>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
A technique of depolarization is used to investigate the coherence and spectral properties of the radiation emitted in the two-photon decay of metastable atomic deuterium. The results agree with the quantum mec hanical predictions but may also be interpreted to show that a single photon of a two-photon pair can be considered to have a very short coh erence length, a very short coherence time and a broad bandwidth, all limited, in practice, by the transmission properties of the detection system.