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Classical analog for dispersion cancellation of entangled photons with local detection

Quantum Physics 2012-03-27 v2

Abstract

Energy-time entangled photon pairs remain tightly correlated in time when the photons are passed through equal magnitude, but opposite in sign, dispersion. A recent experimental demonstration has observed this effect on ultrafast time-scales using second-harmonic generation of the photon pairs. However, the experimental signature of this effect does not require energy-time entanglement. Here, we demonstrate a directly analogue to this effect in narrow-band second harmonic generation of a pair of classical laser pulses under similar conditions. Perfect cancellation is observed for fs pulses with dispersion as large as 850 fs2^2, comparable to the quantum result, but with an 101310^{13}-fold improvement in signal brightness.

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@article{arxiv.1105.3956,
  title  = {Classical analog for dispersion cancellation of entangled photons with local detection},
  author = {R. Prevedel and K. M. Schreiter and J. Lavoie and K. J. Resch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.3956},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, matches published version