Spatial correlations of spontaneously down-converted photon pairs detected with a single-photon-sensitive CCD camera

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 81-88

  Jost, Bradley M ^a   Sergienko, Alexander V ^a   Abouraddy, Ayman F ^a   Saleh, Bahaa E A ^a   Teich, Malvin C ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; STATISTICS;

PHOTON PAIRS; PHOTON STATISTICS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0003153472     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000081     Document Type: Article

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