Abstract
We demonstrate suppression of spontaneous parametric down-conversion via quantum interference with two weak coherent states. Pairs of photons upconvert with high efficiency exhibiting a nonlinearity enhanced by 10 orders of magnitude. This constitutes a two-photon switch.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Min Yan, Edward Rickey, and Yifti Zhu
QTuE25 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 2001
Yoon-Ho Kim, Maria V. Chekhova, Sergei P. Kulik, Morton H. Rubin, and Yanhua Shih
QTuB5 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 2001
Jan Peřina, Ondřej Haderka, and Jan Soubusta
PA5 International Conference on Quantum Information (QIM) 2001