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Surface spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Jan Perina, Antonin Luks, Ondrej Haderka, Michael Scalora
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 063902
arXiv: 0907.3595v2 - DOI (quant-ph)
4 pages, 3 figures
License: NONEXCLUSIVE-DISTRIB 1.0
Abstract: Surface spontaneous parametric down-conversion is predicted as a consequence of continuity requirements for electric- and magnetic-field amplitudes at a discontinuity of chi2 nonlinearity. A generalization of the usual two-photon spectral amplitude is suggested to describe this effect. Examples of nonlinear layered structures and periodically-poled nonlinear crystals show that surface contributions to spontaneous down-conversion can be important.
Submitted to arXiv on 21 Jul. 2009