Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2007-12-17
Phys. Rev. A 77, 021801(R) (2008)
Physics
Quantum Physics
4 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected, FIG. 2 slightly edited
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.021801
We show that temporal two-photon interference effects involving the signal and idler photons created by parametric down-conversion can be fully characterized in terms of the variations of two length parameters--called the biphoton path-length difference and the biphoton path-asymmetry- length difference--which we construct using the six different length parameters that a general two-photon interference experiment involves. We perform an experiment in which the effects of the variations of these two parameters can be independently controlled and studied. In our experimental setup, which does not involve mixing of signal and idler photons at a beam splitter, we further report observations of Hong-Ou-Mandel- (HOM-)like effects both in coincidence and in one-photon count rates. As an important consequence, we argue that the HOM and the HOM-like effects are best described as observations of how two-photon coherence changes as a function of the biphoton path- asymmetry-length difference.
Boyd Robert W.
Clifford Chan Kam Wai
Jha Anand Kumar
O'Sullivan Malcolm N.
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