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Measuring entanglement of photons produced by a pulsed source
A pulsed source of entangled photons is desirable for some applications. Yet,
such a source has intrinsic problems arising from the simultaneous arrival of
the signal and noise photons to the detectors. These problems are analyzed and
practical methods to calculate the number of accidental (or spurious)
coincidences are described in detail, and experimentally checked, for the
different regimes of interest. The results are useful not only to measure
entanglement, but to all the situations where extracting the number of valid
coincidences from noisy data is required. As an example of the use of those
methods, we present the time-resolved measurement of the Concurrence of the
field produced by spontaneous parametric down conversion with pump pulses of
duration in the ns-range at a repetition of kHz. The predicted discontinuous
evolution of the entanglement at the edges of the pump pulse is observed.Comment: 9 pages, 10 or 7 figures (one of the figures includes 4), 28
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Features of the extreme events observed in the all-solid state laser with a saturable absorber
Extreme events (sometimes also called optical rogue waves), in the form of
pulses of extraordinary intensity, are easily observed in its chaotic regime if
the Fresnel number of the cavity is high. This result suggests that the
nonlinear interaction among transverse modes is an essential ingredient in the
formation of extreme events in this type of lasers, but there is no theoretical
description of the phenomenon yet. We report here a set of experimental results
on the regularities of these extreme events, to provide a basis for the
development of such a description. Among these results, we point out here: i)
the decay of the correlation across the transversal section of the laser beam,
and ii) the appearance of extreme events even if the time elapsed since the
previous pulse is relatively short (in terms of the average inter-pulse
separation), what indicates the existence of some unknown mechanism of energy
storage. We hypothesize that this mechanism is related with the imperfect
depletion of the gain by some of the transversal modes. We also present
evidence in support of this hypothesis.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure