Anisotropic narrowing of biphoton wave packet distribution in spontaneous parametric down-conversion with biaxial crystal
Guangwen Huo, Tongyi Zhang, Meizhi Zhang, Haiyan Zhu, Xin-Wei Zha, Heng Chen · Journal of Modern Optics · 2017
We investigate theoretically the strong anisotropy in the wave packet distribution of biphoton pairs generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) process with biaxial crystals. From the angle relationship in biaxial crystals, we deduce the wave function of type I SPDC by considering the longitudinal detuning under paraxial approximation. Taking BiB3O6 (BIBO) as an example, we numerically simulate the single-particle and coincidence distributions in two observation planes under the optimum phase-matching scheme. In contrast to uniaxial crystals, a stronger anisotropy effect and a higher entanglement of the photon pair states are obtained, which are attributed to the complex structure of biaxial crystals. These results are important for the generation of highly entangled biphoton pairs, especially for multi-photon pairs generation.