https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00323-2
Direct experimental characterization of the Bose-Einstein distribution of spatial fluctuations of spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Laboratoire d'Optique P.M. Duffieux, UMR 6603 du CNRS, Université de Franche-Comté, Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
Corresponding author: a alexis.mosset@univ-fcomte.fr
Received:
16
September
2003
Revised:
20
November
2003
Published online:
6
January
2004
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first experimental demonstration by direct detection of the Bose-Einstein photon-number distribution of highly spatially multi-mode but temporally single mode spontaneous parametric down-conversion.
PACS: 42.50.-p – Quantum optics / 42.50.Ar – Photon statistics and coherence theory / 42.65.-k – Nonlinear optics / 42.65.Lm – Parametric down conversion and production of entangled photons
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2004
