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Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons
In classical optics, Young’s double-slit experiment with colored coherent light gives rise to individual interference fringes for each light frequency, referring to single-photon interference. However, two-photon double-slit interference has been widely studied only for wavelength-degenerate biphoto...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727215/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17827-8 |
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author | Zhang, De-Jian Wu, Shuang Li, Hong-Guo Wang, Hai-Bo Xiong, Jun Wang, Kaige |
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description | In classical optics, Young’s double-slit experiment with colored coherent light gives rise to individual interference fringes for each light frequency, referring to single-photon interference. However, two-photon double-slit interference has been widely studied only for wavelength-degenerate biphoton, known as subwavelength quantum lithography. In this work, we report double-slit interference experiments with two-color biphoton. Different from the degenerate case, the experimental results depend on the measurement methods. From a two-axis coincidence measurement pattern we can extract complete interference information about two colors. The conceptual model provides an intuitional picture of the in-phase and out-of-phase photon correlations and a complete quantum understanding about the which-path information of two colored photons. |
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spelling | pubmed-57272152017-12-13 Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons Zhang, De-Jian Wu, Shuang Li, Hong-Guo Wang, Hai-Bo Xiong, Jun Wang, Kaige Sci Rep Article In classical optics, Young’s double-slit experiment with colored coherent light gives rise to individual interference fringes for each light frequency, referring to single-photon interference. However, two-photon double-slit interference has been widely studied only for wavelength-degenerate biphoton, known as subwavelength quantum lithography. In this work, we report double-slit interference experiments with two-color biphoton. Different from the degenerate case, the experimental results depend on the measurement methods. From a two-axis coincidence measurement pattern we can extract complete interference information about two colors. The conceptual model provides an intuitional picture of the in-phase and out-of-phase photon correlations and a complete quantum understanding about the which-path information of two colored photons. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5727215/ /pubmed/29234118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17827-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, De-Jian Wu, Shuang Li, Hong-Guo Wang, Hai-Bo Xiong, Jun Wang, Kaige Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons |
title | Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons |
title_full | Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons |
title_fullStr | Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons |
title_full_unstemmed | Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons |
title_short | Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons |
title_sort | young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727215/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17827-8 |
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