Abstract
We present a theoretical and experimental study of the angular and temperature dependence of the photon pairs produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a periodically poled KTP crystal. In the experiment, two detectors are placed at different angles in the emitted light, and the detected photon pair rate is measured as a function of one angle or of crystal temperature. In the theoretical work, exact results for the pair rates are obtained through importance-sampled numerical integration of the fourth-order coherence function over regions representing the experimental integration parameters. Conditions studied range from well-resolved results in which detector angular and filter bandwidth integration effects are negligible, to other cases in which such effects are large and pair rates exceed ${10}^{5}\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}{\mathrm{s}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. Throughout these cases, good agreement is often seen between experimental and theoretical results, while some differences that are noted provide insight into the actual crystal quasi-phase-matching function.
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