title: Directly produced three-color entanglement by quasi-phase-matched third-harmonic generation.
abstract: A new scheme is presented to directly produce fundamental, second-, and third-harmonic three-color continuous-variable (CV) entangled beams by cascaded quasi-phase-matched third-harmonic generation (THG) in an optical cavity. THG can be achieved with high efficiency through a coupled sum-frequency process between the second-harmonic and the fundamental fields. It is demonstrated that the three beams (fundamental, second-, and third-harmonic fields) are entangled with each other according to the CV entanglement criterion. In this scheme, only one crystal and one pump field can generate three-color CV entangled beams separated by an octave in frequency through quasi-phase-matched cascaded nonlinear process, which may be very useful for the applications in quantum communication and computation networks.
authors.affiliation: School of Science, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo 315211, China. ybyu@163.com
authors.forename: Y B
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Zhu