Enhancing stimulated Raman excitation and two-photon absorption using entangled states of lightстатья
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Аннотация:We find that stimulated Raman excitation of an atom by a two-photon pulse can be enhanced by orders of magnitude if the photons are simultaneously frequency correlated and spatially anticorrelated. That is, a correlated photon pair must have an inherent time delay between its constituent photons. This counterintuitive feature is a manifestation of the uncertainty principle, which yields that frequency-correlated photons cannot be time (spatially) correlated. This is opposite to two-photon absorption by a three-level atom, for which the enhancement occurs if photons in the pulse are frequency anticorrelated and spatially correlated, that is, photons in the pair simultaneously interact with the atom. Our findings can be useful for imaging and spectroscopy of biological samples which demand low illumination intensity.