A Two-Photon Investigation of a Material’s Nonlinear Susceptibility

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Name: Olivia Green
Major: Physics
Advisors: Cody Leary, Susan Lehman

We modeled the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect for a two-photon state modified by a nonlinear sample interaction and studied how the interaction with a sample material affected the output coincidence signal. We found expressions for coincidence detection rates as a function of time delay between Hong-Ou-Mandel input paths. We present plots of these coincidence detections for when the biphoton coherence frequency bandwidth is greater than the nonlinear sample’s resonance linewidth.

Posted in Comments Enabled, Independent Study, Symposium 2023 on April 14, 2023.