Abstract
The entangled photon pairs (biphotons) produced from parametric down-conversion (PDC) in a χ(2) crystal are the key element for several quantum information and communication schemes. Recent theoretical investigations [1-2] have revealed the peculiar structure of the biphotonic correlation characterizing the entanglement of twin beams in the space-time domain. The biphotonic correlation in type I PDC is characterized in the near field by a X-shaped geometry, which turns out to be non-factorable in space and time, offering thus the relevant possibility of manipulating the temporal bandwidth of biphoton entanglement by acting on their spatial degrees of freedom. The name "X-entanglement" was coined to describe this geometry [1]. An other key feature which emerged is the extreme spatial and temporal localization of the biphotonic correlation, on the micrometer and femtosecond range, respectively.
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