Abstract
The Wigner representation is developed in the Heisenberg picture for the study of experiments involving photon pairs created in the process of parametric down conversion. After the general description of a light beam and the theory of detection (restricted here to single count probabilities in the Wigner formalism) the theory of parametric downconversion is developed to the point of calculating the autocorrelations of the signal and idler beams. Two recent experiments are analyzed in detail: frustrated two-photon creation by interference, and induced coherence and indistinguishability.
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