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Multimode Hong-Ou-Mandel interference

S. P. Walborn, A. N. de Oliveira, S. Pádua, C. H. Monken

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0212017

Abstract

We consider multimode two-photon interference at a beam splitter by photons created by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The resulting interference pattern is shown to depend upon the transverse spatial symmetry of the pump beam. In an experiment, we employ the first-order Hermite-Gaussian modes in order to show that, by manipulating the pump beam, one can control the resulting two-photon interference behavior. We expect these results to play an important role in the engineering of quantum states of light for use in quantum information processing and quantum imaging.

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