Scientific Reports (May 2017)

Hybrid Three-Mode Correlation and Squeezing in a Pr3+:YSO Crystal

  • Zongchen Liu,
  • Irfan Ahmed,
  • Garuma Abdisa,
  • Zihai Jiang,
  • Shuwei Fan,
  • Hongxing Wang,
  • Yanpeng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01860-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Abstract We report the generation of three-mode hybrid intensity-noise correlation and intensity-difference squeezing of spontaneous parametric four-wave mixing (SP-FWM) and fourth-order fluorescence (FL) signals in the heteronuclear-like (three-level Λ-type) molecular structure of a Pr3+:Y2SiO5 (Pr3+:YSO) crystal using the nonlinear cross-Kerr effect under a polarized dressing effect. In the semi-classical view of a Kerr nonlinear medium, the amplitude of two-mode hybrid correlations of this kind is subject to a limit determined by the hybrid maximally entangled state. Whereas the degree of correlation and squeezing is determined by the dressing effects of the input laser fields participating in the SP-FWM process. We also find that the variations in magnitude of three-mode hybrid intensity-noise correlation and intensity-difference squeezing are consistent with nonlinear cross-Kerr processes. Such a three-mode hybrid signal may have potential applications in long-distance communication, dense coding, all-optical communication and quantum storage on photonic chips.