Four-photon interference with asymmetric beam splitters
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Four-photon interference with asymmetric beam splitters.
Two experiments of four-photon interference are performed with two pairs of photons from parametric downconversion with the help of asymmetric beam splitters. The first experiment is a generalization of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference effect to two pairs of photons while the second one utilizes this effect to demonstrate a four-photon de Broglie wavelength of lambda/4 by projection measurement.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Optics Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0146-9592,1539-4794
DOI: 10.1364/ol.32.001320