Three-fold coincidence by stimulated parametric down-conversion
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| author | Klein, Yishai D'Errico, Alessio Ghobadi, Farid Paneru, Dilip Dehghan, Nazanin Cohen, Eliahu Karimi, Ebrahim |
| author_facet | Klein, Yishai D'Errico, Alessio Ghobadi, Farid Paneru, Dilip Dehghan, Nazanin Cohen, Eliahu Karimi, Ebrahim |
| contents | Parametric down-conversion is a widely used source of nonclassical light in quantum optics and photonic quantum technologies. While stimulated parametric down-conversion with strong classical seeds is well studied, the regime in which stimulation occurs at the single-photon level has hitherto remained largely unexplored experimentally. Here, we study continuous-wave, low-gain down-conversion seeded by a weak coherent field with an average photon number well below one per coherence time. By measuring third-order temporal correlations, we observe a clear enhancement that cannot be accounted for by spontaneous processes or accidental coincidences alone, and is consistent with stimulation involving the seed and the generated photon pair. These results provide time-domain evidence of seed-induced three-photon correlations and suggest new ways to engineer and probe multi-photon states for quantum imaging, sensing, and information processing. |
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| spellingShingle | Three-fold coincidence by stimulated parametric down-conversion Klein, Yishai D'Errico, Alessio Ghobadi, Farid Paneru, Dilip Dehghan, Nazanin Cohen, Eliahu Karimi, Ebrahim Quantum Physics Parametric down-conversion is a widely used source of nonclassical light in quantum optics and photonic quantum technologies. While stimulated parametric down-conversion with strong classical seeds is well studied, the regime in which stimulation occurs at the single-photon level has hitherto remained largely unexplored experimentally. Here, we study continuous-wave, low-gain down-conversion seeded by a weak coherent field with an average photon number well below one per coherence time. By measuring third-order temporal correlations, we observe a clear enhancement that cannot be accounted for by spontaneous processes or accidental coincidences alone, and is consistent with stimulation involving the seed and the generated photon pair. These results provide time-domain evidence of seed-induced three-photon correlations and suggest new ways to engineer and probe multi-photon states for quantum imaging, sensing, and information processing. |
| title | Three-fold coincidence by stimulated parametric down-conversion |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27653 |