Stokes–anti-Stokes light-scattering process: A photon-wave-function approach
A. V. A. Guimarães, Marcelo França Santos, Ado Jório, Carlos Henrique Monken · Physical Review A · 2020
The photon-wave-function formalism provides an alternative description of some quantum optical phenomena in a more intuitive way. We use this formalism to describe the process of correlated Stokes--anti-Stokes Raman scattering. In this process, two photons from a laser beam are inelastically scattered by a phonon created by the first photon (Stokes processes) and annihilated by the second photon (anti-Stokes process), producing a Stokes--anti-Sokes (SaS) photon pair. We arrive at an expression for the two-photon wave function of the scattered SaS photon pair, which is in agreement with a number of experimental results.