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American Physical Society, Physical Review A, 3(78), 2008

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.78.033809

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Toward quantum frequency combs: Boosting the generation of highly nonclassical light states by cavity-enhanced parametric down-conversion at high repetition rates

Journal article published in 2008 by Alessandro Zavatta ORCID, Valentina Parigi, Marco Bellini
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Abstract

We demonstrate the generation of multi-photon quantum states of light by cavity-enhanced parametric down-conversion in the high-repetition-rate pulsed regime. An external enhancement cavity resonant with the spectral comb of modes of a mode-locked pump laser provides a coherent build-up of the pump intensity and greatly enhances the parametric gain without sacrificing its high repetition rate and comb structure. We probe the parametric gain enhancement by the conditional generation and tomographic analysis of two-photon Fock states. Besides its potential impact to efficiently generate highly-nonclassical or entangled multi-photon states in many existing experimental setups, this scheme opens new and exciting perspectives towards the combination of quantum and comb technologies for enhanced measurements and advanced quantum computation protocols. Comment: 5 pages 3 figures; updated with major additions, added references, and changed title. Accepted for publication in Physical Review A