Comptes Rendus
no. 2
Triple photons: a challenge in nonlinear and quantum optics
[Les triplets de photons : un défi pour l'optique non linéaire et l'optique quantique]
Kamel Bencheikh1 ; Fabien Gravier2 ; Julien Douady3 ; Ariel Levenson1 ; Benoît Boulanger2 
1 Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures, centre national de la recherche scientifique, route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France
2 Institut Néel, centre national de la recherche scientifique – université Joseph-Fourier, 25, rue des Martyrs, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble cedex 9, France
3 Laboratoire de spectrométrie physique, université Joseph-Fourier – centre national de la recherche scientifique, BP 87, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères, France
Comptes Rendus. Physique, Recent advances in crystal optics, Volume 8 (2007) no. 2, pp. 206-220.

Cet article est consacré à la generation et aux corrélations quantiques des triplets de photons. Il s'agit de la création de trois photons fortement corrélés produits à partir de la scission d'un seul photon par un processus non linéaire paramétrique du troisième ordre à l'accord de phase. Ces triplets constituent un état Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger de la lumière ; ils sont intéressants non seulement d'un point de vue fondamental mais aussi pour de nouveaux protocoles de cryptographie quantique. Nous donnons ici la description à la fois classique et quantique de la génération de triplets de photons, nous décrivons la première démonstration expérimentale d'une telle génération, et nous calculons la fonction de Wigner des états quantiques à 3 photons.

This article is devoted to the generation and the quantum correlations of triple photons, which correspond to the creation of three highly correlated photons from the splitting of a single photon by a phase-matched third-order parametric nonlinear process. These triples constitute a Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state of light and are interesting from a fundamental point of view but also for new schemes of quantum cryptography. We give here the classical and quantum descriptions of triple photon generation, we report on the first experimental demonstration of such a generation, and we calculate the Wigner function of three-photon quantum states of light.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crhy.2006.07.014
Keywords: Cubic nonlinear optics, Quantum optics, Nonlinear crystals, Nonclassical states of light, GHZ, Parametric frequency conversion, Quantum correlations, Parametric fluorescence
Mots-clés : Optique non linéaire cubique, Optique quantique, Cristaux non linéaires, États non classiques de la lumière, GHZ, Conversion de fréquence paramétrique, Corrélation quantiques, Fluorescence paramétrique

Kamel Bencheikh 1 ; Fabien Gravier 2 ; Julien Douady 3 ; Ariel Levenson 1 ; Benoît Boulanger 2

1 Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures, centre national de la recherche scientifique, route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France
2 Institut Néel, centre national de la recherche scientifique – université Joseph-Fourier, 25, rue des Martyrs, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble cedex 9, France
3 Laboratoire de spectrométrie physique, université Joseph-Fourier – centre national de la recherche scientifique, BP 87, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères, France 
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Kamel Bencheikh; Fabien Gravier; Julien Douady; Ariel Levenson; Benoît Boulanger. Triple photons: a challenge in nonlinear and quantum optics. Comptes Rendus. Physique, Recent advances in crystal optics, Volume 8 (2007) no. 2, pp. 206-220. doi : 10.1016/j.crhy.2006.07.014. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/physique/articles/10.1016/j.crhy.2006.07.014/

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