Title :
Direct measurements of the non-classicality degree in photon-number correlations
Author :
Dovrat, L. ; Bakstein, M. ; Istrati, D. ; Megidish, E. ; Halevy, A. ; Cohen, L. ; Eisenberg, H.S.
Author_Institution :
Racah Inst. of Phys., Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Abstract :
Using photon-number resolving detectors, we directly measure the two-mode photon-number distribution of parametric down-conversion for different degrees of correlation. We present two quantitative measures for the degree of non-classicality.
Keywords :
optical correlation; optical frequency conversion; photon counting; direct measurements; nonclassicality degree; parametric down-conversion; photon-number correlations; photon-number resolving detectors; two-mode photon-number distribution; Correlation; Detectors; Joints; Matrix decomposition; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
