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Direct measurement and reconstruction of nonclassical features of twin beams generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Correlations in twin beams composed of many photon pairs are studied using an intensified CCD camera. Joint signal-idler photon-number distribution and quantum phase-space quasi-distributions determined from experimental data have nonclassical features.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0405118,
  title  = {Direct measurement and reconstruction of nonclassical features of twin beams generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion},
  author = {Ondrej Haderka and Jan Perina and Martin Hamar and Jan Perina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0405118},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 7 figures