Photon Number Statistics of Multimode Parametric Down-Conversion

2008/04/30 by Malte Avenhaus, M. Avenhaus, H. B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge +9 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.053601

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053601 (2008) · 5 pages, 3 figures

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Abstract

We experimentally analyze the complete photon number statistics of parametric down-conversion 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.

Citations

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• Quantum key distribution with passive decoy state selection
• Two independent photon pairs versus four-photon entangled states in parametric down conversion

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