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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Quantum diffraction of biphoton beam at a blazed grating

Dirk Puhlmann, Martin R. Ostermeyer

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

A blazed grating is used for the separation of single photons from photon pairs. The Fraunhofer far field of the two-photon rate depends on the spatial correlation strength of the photons and enables correlation characterizations.
DOI
10.1364/cleo.2009.jthe105

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