Photon Number Statistics of Multimode Parametric Down-Conversion

M. Avenhaus; H. B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge; K. Laiho; W. Mauerer; I. A. Walmsley; C. Silberhorn

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.053601

Photon Number Statistics of Multimode Parametric Down-Conversion

Quantum Physics 2008-08-07 v2

Authors: M. Avenhaus , H. B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge , K. Laiho , W. Mauerer , I. A. Walmsley , C. Silberhorn

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Abstract

We experimentally analyze the complete photon number statistics of parametric downconversion and ascertain the influence of multimode effects. Our results clearly reveal a difference between single mode theoretical description and the measured distributions. Further investigations assure the applicability of loss-tolerant photon number reconstruction and prove strict photon number correlation between signal and idler modes.

Keywords

spontaneous parametric down-conversion quantum optics

Cite

@article{arxiv.0804.0740,
  title  = {Photon Number Statistics of Multimode Parametric Down-Conversion},
  author = {M. Avenhaus and H. B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge and K. Laiho and W. Mauerer and I. A. Walmsley and C. Silberhorn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0740},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures

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