Detection of multimode spatial correlation in PDC and application to the absolute calibration of a CCD camera

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 20572-20584

  Brida, Giorgio ^a   Degiovanni, Ivo Pietro ^a   Genovese, Marco ^a   Rastello, Maria Luisa ^a   Ruo Berchera, Ivano ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS;

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; MULTIMODES; PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL ENTANGLEMENT; SPATIAL MODES; SUB-SHOT;

CCD CAMERAS;

EID: 77957978949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020572     Document Type: Article

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