What we can learn about single photons in a two-photon interference experiment

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1998-01-01

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Strekalov, D. V., T. B. Pittman, and Y. H. Shih. “What We Can Learn about Single Photons in a Two-Photon Interference Experiment.” Physical Review A 57, no. 1 (1998): 567–70. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.57.567.

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UMBC Quantum Information Group
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Abstract

We report a two-photon interference experiment in which a single-photon wave-packet concept fails to give a correct prediction, but the two-photon wave-packet, or biphoton, concept is helpful. Based on our experiment, we argue that single-photon wave-packet information available from two-photon measurement is limited.