(1) Laboratoire dOptique P.M. Duffieux, UMR 6603 du CNRS, Université de Franche-Comté, Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
Abstract:
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first experimental demonstration by direct detection of the Bose-Einstein photon-number distribution of highly spatially multi-mode but temporally single mode spontaneous parametric down-conversion.Received: 20 November 2003, Published online: 6 January 2004PACS: 42.50.-p Quantum optics - 42.50.Ar Photon statistics and coherence theory - 42.65.-k Nonlinear optics - 42.65.Lm Parametric down conversion and production of entangled photons