Generation of spatial antibunching with free propagating twin beams

Abstract

We propose and implement a novel method to produce a spatial anti-bunched 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 use reflective elements eliminating losses from absorption by the objects inserted in the beams.

Submitted for publication in Phys. Rev. A

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