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Attosecond-resolution Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry
When two indistinguishable photons are each incident on separate input ports of a beamsplitter, they “bunch” deterministically, exiting via the same port as a direct consequence of their bosonic nature. This two-photon interference effect has long-held the potential for application in precision meas...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aap9416 |
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author | Lyons, Ashley Knee, George C. Bolduc, Eliot Roger, Thomas Leach, Jonathan Gauger, Erik M. Faccio, Daniele |
author_facet | Lyons, Ashley Knee, George C. Bolduc, Eliot Roger, Thomas Leach, Jonathan Gauger, Erik M. Faccio, Daniele |
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description | When two indistinguishable photons are each incident on separate input ports of a beamsplitter, they “bunch” deterministically, exiting via the same port as a direct consequence of their bosonic nature. This two-photon interference effect has long-held the potential for application in precision measurement of time delays, such as those induced by transparent specimens with unknown thickness profiles. However, the technique has never achieved resolutions significantly better than the few-femtosecond (micrometer) scale other than in a common-path geometry that severely limits applications. We develop the precision of Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry toward the ultimate limits dictated by statistical estimation theory, achieving few-attosecond (or nanometer path length) scale resolutions in a dual-arm geometry, thus providing access to length scales pertinent to cell biology and monoatomic layer two-dimensional materials. |
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spelling | pubmed-59354782018-05-07 Attosecond-resolution Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry Lyons, Ashley Knee, George C. Bolduc, Eliot Roger, Thomas Leach, Jonathan Gauger, Erik M. Faccio, Daniele Sci Adv Research Articles When two indistinguishable photons are each incident on separate input ports of a beamsplitter, they “bunch” deterministically, exiting via the same port as a direct consequence of their bosonic nature. This two-photon interference effect has long-held the potential for application in precision measurement of time delays, such as those induced by transparent specimens with unknown thickness profiles. However, the technique has never achieved resolutions significantly better than the few-femtosecond (micrometer) scale other than in a common-path geometry that severely limits applications. We develop the precision of Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry toward the ultimate limits dictated by statistical estimation theory, achieving few-attosecond (or nanometer path length) scale resolutions in a dual-arm geometry, thus providing access to length scales pertinent to cell biology and monoatomic layer two-dimensional materials. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5935478/ /pubmed/29736414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aap9416 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Lyons, Ashley Knee, George C. Bolduc, Eliot Roger, Thomas Leach, Jonathan Gauger, Erik M. Faccio, Daniele Attosecond-resolution Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry |
title | Attosecond-resolution Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry |
title_full | Attosecond-resolution Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry |
title_fullStr | Attosecond-resolution Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry |
title_full_unstemmed | Attosecond-resolution Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry |
title_short | Attosecond-resolution Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry |
title_sort | attosecond-resolution hong-ou-mandel interferometry |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aap9416 |
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