Two-photon interference in a standard Mach-Zehnder interferometer

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dc.contributor.authorShih, Yanhua
dc.contributor.authorSergienko, A. V.
dc.contributor.authorRubin, M. H.
dc.contributor.authorKiess, T. E.
dc.contributor.authorAlley, C. O.
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-28T16:09:59Z
dc.date.issued1994-05-01
dc.description.abstractA pair of light quanta with different colors (155.9-nm difference in center wavelength) generated from parametric down-conversion was injected collinearly into one input port of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Coincidence interference behavior was studied over a wide range of optical path differences of the interferometer. A measurement of 75% interference visibility with oscillation of the pump frequency for a large optical path difference of the interferometer (43 cm) is the signature of a quantum two-photon entangled state, which reflects both particle and wave nature of the light quanta in one experiment.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research Grant No. N00014-91-J-1430.
dc.description.urihttps://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.49.4243
dc.format.extent4 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2ydf9-w9uh
dc.identifier.citationShih, Y. H., A. V. Sergienko, M. H. Rubin, T. E. Kiess, and C. O. Alley. “Two-Photon Interference in a Standard Mach-Zehnder Interferometer.” Physical Review A 49, no. 5 (1994): 4243–46. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.49.4243.
dc.identifier.urihttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.49.4243
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/39869
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAPS
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Physics Department
dc.rights©1994 American Physical Society.
dc.subjectUMBC Quantum Optics Laboratory
dc.titleTwo-photon interference in a standard Mach-Zehnder interferometer
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