Abstract
We study narrow-band biphoton generation from spontaneous four-wave mixing with electromagnetically induced transparency in a laser cooled atomic ensemble. We compare two formalisms in the interaction and Heisenberg pictures, and find that they agree in the low gain regime but disagree in the high gain regime. We extend both formalisms accounting the non-uniformity in atomic density and the driving laser fields. We find that for a fixed optical depth and a weak and far-detuned pump laser beam, the two-photon waveform is independent of the atomic density distribution. However, the spatial profiles of the two driving laser beams have significant effects on the biphoton temporal waveform. We predict that waveform shaping in time domain can be achieved by controlling the spatial profiles of the driving laser fields.
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