Can Two-Photon Interference be Considered the Interference of Two Photons?
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Pittman, T. B., D. V. Strekalov, A. Migdall, M. H. Rubin, A. V. Sergienko, and Y. H. Shih. “Can Two-Photon Interference Be Considered the Interference of Two Photons?” Physical Review Letters 77, no. 10 (1996): 1917–20. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1917.
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We report on a “postponed compensation” experiment in which the observed two-photon entangled state interference cannot be pictured in terms of the overlap of the two individual photon wave packets of a parametric down-conversion pair on a beam splitter. In the sense of a quantum eraser, the distinguishability of the different two-photon Feynman amplitudes leading to a coincidence detection is removed by delaying the compensation until after the output of an unbalanced two-photon interferometer.