Quasi-phase-matching engineering for spatial control of entangled two-photon states

Opt Lett. 2004 Feb 15;29(4):376-8. doi: 10.1364/ol.29.000376.

Abstract

We show that transverse engineering of quasi-phase-matched geometries can be used to tailor the spatial mode function that describes the quantum state of photon pairs generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion. We study several geometries and reveal how properly engineered gratings affect, in particular, the spatial correlations embedded in two-photon entangled states.