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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
Light-matter quantum dynamics of complex laser-driven systems
Ivan Gonoskov1, Stefanie Gräfe1
1Institute for Physical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Abstract:
We propose a novel general approximation to transform and simplify the description of a complex fully quantized system describing the interacting light and matter. The method has some similarities to the time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer approach: we consider a quantum description of light rather than of nuclei and follow a similar separation procedure. Our approximation allows us to obtain a decoupled system for the light-excited matter and "dressed" light connected parametrically. With these equations at hand, we study how intense light as a quantum state is affected due to the back-action of the interacting matter. We discuss and demonstrate the possibility of the light-mode entanglement and nonclassical light generation during the interaction.
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