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Non-linear and quantum optics of a type II OPO containing a birefringent element Part 2 : bright entangled beams generation

Laurent Longchambon, Julien Laurat, Thomas Coudreau, Claude Fabre

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0311123

Abstract

We describe theoretically the quantum properties of atype-II Optical Parametric Oscillator containing a birefringent plate which induces a linear coupling between the orthogonally polarized signal and idler beams and results in phase locking between these two beams. As in a classical OPO, the signal and idler waves show large quantum correlations which can be measured experimentally due to the phase locking between the two beams. We study the influence of the waveplate on the various criteria characterizing quantum correlations. We show in particular that the quantum correlations can be maximized by using optimized quadratures.

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