Diffraction of correlated biphotons through transparent samples

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22635v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:00:02 GMT
• Title: Diffraction of correlated biphotons through transparent samples
• Authors: Nazanin Dehghan, Alessio D'Errico, Yingwen Zhang, Ebrahim Karimi,
• Abstract summary: We show that if a phase object is placed in the image plane of the source, only the propagation of the function of the centroid coordinates is altered. Our findings offer applications for non-interferometric, quantum-enhanced phase imaging.
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• Abstract: Two-photon states generated through degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) can exhibit sharp correlations in the transverse spatial coordinates. This effect, associated with the separability of the biphoton wavefunction into functions of the centroid and the difference coordinates, leads to unique free space propagation features. Here, we show that if a phase object is placed in the image plane of the source, only the propagation of the function of the centroid coordinates is altered. This propagation can be experimentally reconstructed in coincidence imaging and via post-selection on spatially correlated events, which will reveal the diffraction pattern from the object with a phase enhancement due to the probes' two-photon nature. Our findings offer applications for non-interferometric, quantum-enhanced phase imaging.

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