journal article·2012-09-01Open access

Two-color ghost interference with photon pairs generated in hot atoms

Dong-Sheng Ding, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi, Xu-Bo Zou, Guang-Can Guo

AIP Advances· Volume 2· Issue 3

Abstract

We report on an experimental observation of a two-photon ghost interference experiment. A distinguishing feature of our experiment is that the photons are generated via a non-degenerated spontaneous four-wave mixing process in a hot atomic ensemble; therefore the photon has narrow bandwidth. Besides, there is a large difference in frequency between two photons in a pair. Our works may be important to achieve more secure, large transmission capacity long-distance quantum communication.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Quantum Information and Cryptography · Quantum optics and atomic interactions · Random lasers and scattering media

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Affiliations

University of Science and Technology of China Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, , Hefei 230026, China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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