Phys. Rev. A 68, 043806 (2003) [5 pages]

Generation of spatial antibunching with free-propagating twin beams

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D. P. Caetano * and P. H. Souto Ribeiro
Instituto de FĂ­sica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21945-970, Brazil

Received 29 April 2003; published 8 October 2003

We propose and implement a method to produce a spatial antibunched field with free-propagating twin beams from spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The method consists in changing the spatial propagation by manipulating the transverse degrees of freedom through reflections of one of the twin beams. Our method uses reflective elements, eliminating losses from absorption by the objects inserted in the beams.


©2003 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.043806
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.043806
PACS: 42.50.Ar, 42.25.Kb

* Corresponding author. Email address: dilson@if.ufrj.br

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