Shaping the waveform of entangled photons

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作者
Valencia, Alejandra [1 ]
Cere, Alessandro [1 ]
Shi, Xiaojuan [1 ]
Molina-Terriza, Gabriel [1 ,2 ]
Torres, Juan P. [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Inst Ciencies Foton, Barcelona 08860, Spain
[2] ICREA, Barcelona 08010, Spain
[3] Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Signal Theory & Commun, Barcelona, Spain
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.243601
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We demonstrate experimentally tunable control of the joint spectrum, i.e., waveform and degree of frequency correlations, of paired photons generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion. This control is mediated by the spatial shape of the pump beam in type-I noncollinear configurations.
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