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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Effect of spatial beam overlap on parametric-downconversion experiments

Timothy P. Grayson, G. Barbosa

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

The spatial profile of spontaneous parametric down-conversion has been measured and shown to affect both one photon and two photon counting rates in interference experiments.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.thhh.5

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