Two-Dimensional Far-Field Correlations of X-ray Photon Pairs
/ Authors
E. Strizhevsky, Y. Klein, R. Hartmann, S. Francoual, T. Schulli, T. Zhou, A. Sharma, U. Pietsch, L. Altamura, C. Giannini
and 2 more authors
/ Abstract
We directly observe far-field correlations of x-ray photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). Using an energy-resolved, two-dimensional photon counting detector we record the full ring-shaped emission of both photons across a broad bandwidth and extract pair correlations directly from raw events without imposing angular constraints. The ring radii scale with photon energy, in quantitative agreement with transverse phase matching, providing a stringent momentum-space validation of x-ray SPDC. These observations open a route to leveraging quantum correlations in x-ray imaging and metrology, including correlation-enhanced magnification and reduced blurring.