Pulsed "three-photon" light

TL;DR

This paper explores the generation of photon-triplet states in a pulsed nonlinear optical system, demonstrating enhanced three-photon correlations and nonclassical properties relevant for quantum information processing.

Contribution

It introduces a method for producing photon-triplets using pulsed laser-driven cascaded three-photon splitting in a nonlinear cavity, analyzing their quantum correlations and nonclassical features.

Findings

Photon-triplet correlations exceed continuous pumping cases.

Nonclassical phase-space characteristics demonstrated via Wigner function.

Enhanced three-photon-number correlation depending on pulse parameters.

Abstract

Generating multi-photon entangled states is a primary task for applications of quantum information processing. We investigate production of photon-triplet in a regime of light amplification in second-order nonlinear media under action of a pulsed laser beam. For this goal the process of cascaded three-photon splitting in an optical cavity driven by a sequence of laser pulses with Gaussian time-dependent envelopes is investigated. Considering production of photon-triplet for short-time regime and in the cascaded three-wave collinear configuration Generating multi-photon entangled states is a primary task for applications of quantum information processing. We investigate production of photon-triplet in a regime of light amplification in second-order nonlinear media under action of a pulsed laser beam. For this goal the process of cascaded three-photon splitting in an optical cavity driven by a sequence of laser pulses with Gaussian time-dependent envelopes is investigated. Considering production of photon-triplet for short-time regime and in the cascaded three-wave collinear configuration we shortly analyze preparation of polarization-non-product states looking further applications of these results in the cascaded optical parametric oscillator. It is also demonststed the nonclassical characteritics of the photon-triplet in phase-space on the base of the Wigner function. Calculating the normalized third-order correlation functions below-and at the generation threshold of cascaded optical parametric oscillator, we demonstrate that in the pulsed regime, depending on the duration of pulses and the time-interval separations between them, the degree of three-photon-number correlation essentially exceed the analogous one for the case of continuous pumping.