Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 61, Number 4, February 2003
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Page(s) | 485 - 491 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00155-0 | |
Published online | 01 February 2003 |
Super-Poissonian intensity fluctuations and correlations between pump and probe fields in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo -
Caixa Postal 66318 CEP 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Corresponding author: nussen@if.usp.br
Received:
26
August
2002
Accepted:
3
December
2002
We have measured the intensity fluctuations of pump and probe beams after interaction with atoms in a situation of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Both fields present super-Poissonian statistics and their intensities become correlated, in good qualitative agreement with theoretical predictions in which both fields are treated quantum-mechanically. The intensity correlations measured are a first step towards the observation of entanglement between the fields.
PACS: 42.50.-p – Quantum optics / 42.50.Ar – Photon statistics and coherence theory / 42.50.Gy – Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light
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