Measuring different types of transverse momentum correlations in the biphoton's Fourier plane

Abstract

In this work, we present a theoretical and experimental study about the spatial correlations of paired photons generated by type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion. In particular, we show how these correlations can be positive or negative depending on the direction in which the far field plane is scanned and the polarization post-selected. Our results provide a straightforward way to observe different kind of correlations, that complement other well known methods to tune the spatial correlations of paired photons.

5 pages, 3 figures