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Spatial Characterization Of Two-Photon States - GAP-Optique

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6. Summary<br />

Experiments that explain oam transfer in noncollinear spdc. In<br />

noncollinear configurations only a subset of emission directions is detected. The<br />

transfer of oam to the detected photons is strongly affected by the change in<br />

geometry imposed by the detection system, and depends on the angle of detection,<br />

the pump-beam waist and the Poynting-vector walk-off. The thesis shows<br />

that, by tailoring these parameters, it is possible to design noncollinear sources<br />

that naturally generate spatially-separated photons with specific desired spatial<br />

shapes, as shown in chapter 4 and references [39, 33, 32].<br />

An analysis of the spatial correlations generated by Raman transitions<br />

in cold atomic ensembles. Like for spdc, the spatial correlations<br />

between the Stokes and anti-Stokes photons depend on the geometrical configuration<br />

of the pump beam, the control beam, and the Stokes and anti-Stokes<br />

photons. This thesis shows how the size and shape of the atom cloud define<br />

the emission angles for which the correlations are maximum and minimum, as<br />

shown in chapter 5 and reference [73].<br />

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