Interference of a Narrowband Biphoton with Double Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in an N-Type System
Peng Chen, Jun Qian, D. Chen, Zhengfeng Hu, Yuzhu Wang · Chinese Physics Letters · 2012
We predict the possibility of the interference of narrow-band biphotons generated by spontaneous four-wave mixing with double electromagnetically induced transparency configuration in cold atoms. In an N-type four-level system, an auxiliary optical field Ω m can create double transparency windows for anti-Stokes photons. When the slow light effects in the double transparency windows are very strong, two four-wave mixing channels could exist due to the splitting of the phase matching condition. The biphoton generated from the two four-wave mixing channels can cause interference and shows Rabi oscillations in two-photon correlation. This interference mechanism will complement the understanding of interference at the two-photon level.