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Research in Optical Sciences

Direct Measurements of the Non-classicality Degree in Photon-number Correlations

Liat Dovrat, Michael Bakstein, Assaf Shaham, E. Megidish, Assaf Halevy, Lior Cohen, D. Istrati, H. S. Eisenberg

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We measure the two-mode photon-number distribution of parametric down-conversion for different degrees of correlation. The singular value decomposition of the joint probability matrix is shown to indicate the degree of non-classicality.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2012.qw4b.1

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