Two-photon interference between two well-separated pulses

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1999-05-23

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Kim, Yoon-Ho, Maria V. Chekhova, Sergei P. Kulik, and Yanhua Shih. “Two-Photon Interference between Two Well-Separated Pulses.” Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (1999), Paper QFC6, Optica Publishing Group, May 23, 1999, QFC6. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=QELS-1999-QFC6.

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Barium borate
Interference
UMBC Quantum Optics Laboratory
Parametric down conversion
Phase
Quartz
Interferometers

Abstract

The superposition principle is at the heart of quantum mechanics and plays the central role in interference phenomena in quantum mechanics. Quantum interference differs from classical interference because of particle nature of light. In a quantum mechanical picture, interference occurs because there are indistinguishable ways of an event to occur. Whenever which-path information is given to the system, interference disappears.