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S P Walborn1, P H Souto Ribeiro, C H Monken
1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. swalborn@if.ufrj.br
Abstract:
The spatial correlation between down-converted photons allows for non-local spatial filtering when two-photon coincidences are registered. This allows one to non-locally control the visibility of interference fringes, to observe ghost images and interference patterns, and to "retrieve" a coherent quantum image from an incoherent field distribution. We show theoretically that non-local spatial filtering can lead to counter-intuitive effects when the pump beam is no longer given by a Gaussian profile. Namely, increased non-local filtering can actually decrease the visibility of interference fringes, contrary to what has been observed so far. We explain this behavior through the transverse spatial parity entanglement of the down-converted photons.
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