arxiv5/19/2026, 2:38:13 AM
First Technique to Measure Complete Spatial Schmidt Modes of Entangled Two-Photon States Without Prior KnowledgeA new measurement technique enables full characterization of the spatial Schmidt basis of entangled two-photon fields generated via SPDC — without requiring any prior knowledge of the basis. Prior art could only reconstruct Schmidt spectra when the basis was already known. The au…