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arXiv:0707.1985 · Physical Review A

Intensity correlations, entanglement properties, and ghost imaging in multimode thermal-seeded parametric down-conversion: Theory

Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Maria Bondani, Emiliano Puddu, Alessandra Andreoni, Matteo G. A. Paris

Published Dec 14, 2007• 32 citations
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Abstract

We address parametric down-conversion seeded by multimode pseudothermal fields. We show that this process may be used to generate multimode pairwise correlated states with entanglement properties that can be tuned by controlling the seed intensities. Parametric down-conversion seeded by multimode pseudothermal fields represents a source of correlated states, which allows one to explore the classical-quantum transition in pairwise correlations and to realize ghost imaging and ghost diffraction in regimes not yet explored by experiments.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.76.062309

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