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The parametric three-wave interaction is the most important model in nonlinear optics and is also at the heart of quantum optics. Within this model processes as sum-frequency. difference frequency and second harmonic generation can be described and understood.
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Bandilla, A., Drobný, G., Jex, I. (1996). Three-Wave Mixing with Entangled and Disentangled States. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_88
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