Two – photon interference with coherently-driven three-level atomic system
Abstract
Two-photon interference experiments have historically been associated with two-photon state produced in the process of spontaneous parametric down conversion. We investigate the entangled two-photon state obtained from a three-level cascade atomic system driven by two coherent optical fields as an input state in a two photon interference experiment with a beam-splitter. For weak-coupling scheme and particular choices of the atomic parameters, interference effects have been shown with higher visibility than those obtained with the same atomic system with thermal excitation considered before.
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