Coherent light in intense spatio-spectral twin beams

TL;DR

This paper presents a quantum model for intense spatio-spectral twin beams that reveals the presence of coherent components, affecting their properties and detectable through specific interference experiments.

Contribution

A novel quantum model treating signal, idler, and pump fields equally, showing nonzero coherent components in intense twin beams, unlike previous models.

Findings

Coherent components influence twin beam properties

Interference patterns confirm coherent components

Model applies to pump-depleted regimes

Abstract

Intense spatio-spectral twin beams generated in the regime with pump depletion are analyzed applying a suggested quantum model that treats the signal, idler and pump fields in the same way. The model assumes the signal and idler fields in the form of the generalized superposition of signal and noise and reveals nonzero signal coherent components in both fields, contrary to the models developed earlier. The influence of coherent components on the properties of intense twin beams is elucidated. The interference pattern formed in the process of sum-frequency generation and that of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer are shown to be able to experimentally confirm the presence of coherent components.