Brillouin scattering and dynamical diffraction of entangled photon pairs

Birgit Dopfer, Paul G. Kwiat, Harald Weinfurter, Anton Zeilinger, Michael Horne · Physical Review A · 1995

Photons incident on a periodic medium at the Bragg angle are dynamically diffracted and exhibit the pendell\"osung phenomenon familiar from x-ray and neutron-diffraction experiments. The entangled two-photon state incident from the positive and negative Bragg angle exhibits a pendell\"osung length that is half that for the single-photon case. In our experiment the photon pairs were produced via parametric down-conversion and the periodic medium was a crystal whose refractive index was periodically altered by an acoustic wave. The predicted Pendell\"osung-length behavior was experimentally confirmed.

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