Two-photon geometric optics

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1996-04-01

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Pittman, T. B., D. V. Strekalov, D. N. Klyshko, M. H. Rubin, A. V. Sergienko, and Y. H. Shih. “Two-Photon Geometric Optics.” Physical Review A 53, no. 4 (1996): 2804–15. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.53.2804.

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UMBC Quantum Information Group
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UMBC Quantum Optics Laboratory

Abstract

We report two-photon correlation experiments using spontaneous parametric down-conversion under a severe manipulation of the input pump field. Considering the case of passing the laser beam through a focusing lens before the down-conversion crystal, theoretical calculations and a series of imaging experiments demonstrate two-photon geometric optics effects. In particular, the imaging in coincidence counts of an aperture placed in one of the down-conversion beams is found to be the analog of a simple spherical mirror system, which displays a ‘‘vacuum dispersion’’ effect in that the object and image distances are wavelength weighted. © 1996 The American Physical Society.