Imaging entanglement correlations with a single-photon avalanche diode camera
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Spatial correlations between two photons are the key resource in realising many quantum imaging schemes. Measurement of the bi-photon correlation map is typically performed using single-point scanning detectors or single-photon cameras based on CCD technology. However, both approaches are limited in speed due to the slow scanning and the low frame-rate of CCD-based cameras, resulting in data acquisition times on the order of many hours. Here we employ a high frame rate, single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) camera, to measure the spatial joint probability distribution of a bi-photon state produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, with statistics taken over $10^7$ frames acquired in just 140 seconds. We verified the presence of spatial entanglement between our photon pairs through the violation of an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen criterion, with a confidence level of 227 sigmas. Our work demonstrates the potential of SPAD cameras in the rapid characterisation of photon correlations, leading the way towards quantum imaging in real-time.
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