Abstract
We propose a two-beam pumped cascaded four-wave-mixing (CFWM) scheme with a double- energy-level configuration in vapor cell and experimentally observe the emission of up to 10 quantum correlated beams from such CFWM scheme. During this process, the seed beam is amplified; four new signal beams and five idler beams are generated. The 10 beams show strong quantum correlation which is characterized by the intensity-difference squeezing of about dB. Then, by altering the angle between the two pump beams, we observe the notable transition of the number of the output beams from 10 to eight, and even to six. We find that both the number of the output quantum correlated beams and their degree of quantum correlation from such two-beam pumped CFWM scheme increase with the decrease of the angle between the two pump beams. Such system may find potential applications in quantum information and quantum metrology.
- Received 25 November 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.043846
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